Sentence examples for devastation of the mining from inspiring English sources

Use of coal-fired power stations continued despite the devastation of the mining industry after the strike against pit closures of 1984-85, and coal still provides 33% of Britain's electricity.

There was no way he was going to be tempted to dance on Lady Thatcher's grave because he knew he would be forced to try to defend the strike he led, his union's crushing defeat and the subsequent devastation of the mining communities.

These areas have never fully recovered from the devastation of the closure of mines and steelworks.

Just as this may normalise the devastation of opencast mining, what BP is buying with its £10m is a way of normalising its extraordinarily destructive activities.

While parts of Kentucky show the devastation of strip mining and mountain-top removal, Pine Mountain seemed to be mostly scar-free, although virtually all of the forest that I saw was second growth.

In truth, he would settle for a new generation of hellraisers to dislodge the Democrats and the nation from its indifference to the devastation of mountaintop removal mining, which has left his state of West Virginia in economic and environmental ruin.

The economy recovered slowly from the devastation of the war.

And when he did — the devastation of the place.

Both of these uses caused large devastation of the native forests.

Chronicling the devastation of the Valley fire.

In the aftermath of devastation of the Gulf Coast, teams of NIEHS staff responded by mobilizing resources.