Spiking natural gas prices and uncertainty about its supply have pushed U.S. coal production up 6.5% this year.
German sources attribute a 400, 000-tonne drop in coal production in May 1943 to the damage caused.
Several others have made still more bullish claims about the impending peak of global coal production.
Analysts think a recovery to pre-flood coal production levels will take at least three months.
The estimate of hidden costs takes into account a variety of side-effects of coal production and use.
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Wyoming provides about 41 percent of U.S. coal production, which is an increase from 18 percent two decades earlier.
The government remains a major player across a host of critical sectors, from coal production to oil exploration to railways.
About 10 million Americans are already employed directly and indirectly in businesses associated with oil, natural gas and coal production.
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Regardless, bragging rights for Number One go to Erdos and Inner Mongolia, with coal production outpacing Shanxi province in early 2009.
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It would require an eminently achievable roughly 70 percent increase over the decade from current levels of oil, gas and coal production.
Other scientists have noted that while coal production has been increasing in China over the past several years, it has been decreasing elsewhere.
At the other, Tavan Tolgoi, coal production is projected to expand from 16m tonnes a year to a staggering 240m tonnes by 2040.
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Taken together, they will further drive up pump prices, impose construction bans on local communities, and cripple oil, natural gas and coal production.
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Our estimate of future coal production depends a lot on whether we think that the people of Montana will get into serious coal production.
Fuxin is one of several cities in the north-east that the government has particularly worried about because of its reliance on diminishing coal production.
Blankenship had planned to increase Massey coal production for the coming year from 44 million tons to 56 million tons and so needed to add staff.
It has also led to a massive surfeit of CO2 emissions permits, pushing the price of carbon, and therefore the cost of coal production, sharply lower.
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The United States heavily subsidizes oil, gas and coal production to the tune of tens of billions of dollars, even as oil companies rake in record profits.
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Mines responsible for between 100 and 140 million tons of annual coking coal production are now under force majeure, representing as much as 40% of global supply.
We have seen increases in coal production and coal employment.
Australia accounts for almost two-thirds of global coking coal production.
Coal stocks are in the green on Wednesday after Consol Energy ( CNX) reported better than expected coal production in the first quarter and raised its annual coal target.
The National Development and Reform Commission said coal production should resume as quickly as possible in Sichuan province, which accounts for 4 percent of the country's coal production, AP reported.
Separately, a government official said China would continue to rely on domestic coal production for most of its energy needs but was also looking to step up investment in renewable industries.
The increase in oil production comes at a time when coal production is also rising sharply, largely to provide cheap energy to meet exploding demand in developing economies, particularly in Asia.
India is even less capable of increasing coal production.
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Gas prices have fallen more than 50% since 2008 , yet coal production for the electricity sector, which has been marching up fairly steadily for decades, remains 1 billion tons a year.
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That larger war has some lawmakers drafting a plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions, others pushing for more nuclear power, and still more looking for developments in "clean coal" production.
Mr. Srivastava added that the government is also keen on allocating more coal mines to power-generation companies in order to raise the production of coal.
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