Sentence examples for coal exploration from inspiring English sources

In 2008, the company paid the then Labor state government $300m for a coal exploration licence.

Macdonald allegedly granted a lucrative coal exploration license to benefit a political ally, union boss John Maitland, in another high-profile matter investigated by Icac.

And Mr. Romney continues to emphasize the need to increase domestic oil drilling, coal exploration and the use of nuclear power.

The process for approving coal exploration needs to be overhauled across Australia to discourage corruption, the former New South Wales corruption watchdog says.

Former NSW minister Eddie Obeid has lost his civil case against the anti-corruption body which investigated the granting of a coal exploration licence on his family's land.

Tri-Star holds 23 thermal coal exploration licences, covering about 10% of the 15,000 sq km Pedirka basin south of Alice Springs.

Coal-exploration geologists have found that coal was formed in two different tectonic settings: (1) swampy marine deltas on stable continental margins, and (2) swampy freshwater lakes in graben (long, narrow troughs between two parallel normal faults) on continental crust.

THE town of Alpha in Queensland, Australia, has only 400 residents, including one part-time ambulance driver and a lone policeman, according to Mark Imber of Waratah Coal, an exploration firm.

Macdonald faces prosecution over granting a coal mining exploration licence in the Hunter valley to Doyles Creek Mining, a company owned by former mining union official John Maitland, without putting out a tender.

Part of the Obeids' case related to two confidential government maps said to have been seized from an Obeid family office during the execution of a search warrant relating to the Operation Jasper inquiry into the issuing of a coal mining exploration licence on Obeid family land at Mount Penny in the Bylong Valley, near Mudgee.

Geomechanical properties are of great importance in coal mining exploration, (enhanced) coal bed methane production and carbon geosequestration in deep unmineable coal seams.