I am all for mine safety and they should be inspected to see if they are operating safely and efficiently. Coal is responsible for a good percentage of our energy use in this country and is still inexpensive. Coal fired plants are under attack by EPA and as many as 100 may be shut down in the next year. If that happens, the coal mines will also be shut down. How many jobs will this kill and what will our energy prices be? The EPA is the leader of the pack in job killing policies and should be disbanded in Jan 13 after the new administration takes over.
So, you are all for mine safety and inspections, but you believe coal plants should be able to spew whatever toxins into the atmosphere that they wish without any oversight whatsoever. In other words, protect the miners, and screw everyone else who has to breath the filth that will belch from coal fired plants once EPA is disbanded. You want to know what it will be like here in the U.S. if that happens? Go visit certain regions in China today or just try to think back to what this country was like 50 years ago, and then double it because there are twice as many plants today than there were back then.
You also exaggerate the number of coal plant closings and fail to mention that many of those “under attack” will probably close because they are old and obsolete and have nothing to do with EPA regulations. Here’s an article explaining it better than I can.
As usual TOPOV, you distort everything to your Progressive viewpoint. If we follow your agenda, there will be no energy production at all. You are probably a true greenie thinking that wind and solar will provide our needs even though these greenie companies have a way of going belly up after receiving our tax dollars. This country has the technology to clean up coal emissions from plants, but you don’t wholesale close them all down and jeopardize jobs from the mines and plants in your EPA quest to shut down energy production. I don’t think even you will appreciate your electricity costs willdoubling or tripling as the President promised.
“Saftey” is all we hard rock miners want. To come back home to our familys each and every night in one peice. Is that to much to ask form a hard days work from a company who if they did not make $$ would not be in the busness. These big companys could do a lot more to insure our saftey. Wew all need to work togethertoward that “SAFE” goal, OK?? “DAV”> a retired hard rock miner. (@ 50 Years, Old, broken and beaten)………..
i think oyu tree huggers should go back to whatever state you came from and let us counrty people mine our coal and make our money , we got families too ya know ..,,, and show me one mass produced substatuion for ming coal ????
i think you tree huggers should go back to whatever state you came from and let us counrty people mine our coal and make our money , we got families too ya know ..,,, and show me one mass produced substatuion for ming coal ????
After 50 years (I’m now 64) we’re all broken and beaten.
Out of college, I worked in the coal mines and became a mine foreman. I’m a registerd mining engineer, but no longer work around coal mines. I do work to recycle coal combustion by-products. There is always room for improvement, but I also know that my 7 year old grandaughter could find violations if she walked through a coal mine. Most are a result of poor house-keeping and have absolutely nothing to do with corporate greed. That political BS is couterproductive.
The air along the Ohio River, where I live and work is cleaner than at anytime in my life. There are coal-fired power plants about evey 20 miles on this river.
I carried coal into our home for heating our “warm morning” stove and I carried the ashes out each day as a boy. My dad did that for 40+ years and he is now 88 years old.
Clean coal and safe mining have become a reality, but not by political will. Rather it was accomplished through the application of technology and the professional leadership of our mining contemporaries. Government folks are jerking knees for a living, and the media sobbers over apparatchiks like Mr. Main. My Dad, my grandfathers and my great grandfathers all worked in the coal mines of Kentucky. Coal provided us all with a future.
I am all for mine safety and they should be inspected to see if they are operating safely and efficiently. Coal is responsible for a good percentage of our energy use in this country and is still inexpensive. Coal fired plants are under attack by EPA and as many as 100 may be shut down in the next year. If that happens, the coal mines will also be shut down. How many jobs will this kill and what will our energy prices be? The EPA is the leader of the pack in job killing policies and should be disbanded in Jan 13 after the new administration takes over.
So, you are all for mine safety and inspections, but you believe coal plants should be able to spew whatever toxins into the atmosphere that they wish without any oversight whatsoever. In other words, protect the miners, and screw everyone else who has to breath the filth that will belch from coal fired plants once EPA is disbanded. You want to know what it will be like here in the U.S. if that happens? Go visit certain regions in China today or just try to think back to what this country was like 50 years ago, and then double it because there are twice as many plants today than there were back then.
You also exaggerate the number of coal plant closings and fail to mention that many of those “under attack” will probably close because they are old and obsolete and have nothing to do with EPA regulations. Here’s an article explaining it better than I can.
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/new-epa-pollution-rules-may-force-shutdown-dozens-coal-fired-power-plants
As usual TOPOV, you distort everything to your Progressive viewpoint. If we follow your agenda, there will be no energy production at all. You are probably a true greenie thinking that wind and solar will provide our needs even though these greenie companies have a way of going belly up after receiving our tax dollars. This country has the technology to clean up coal emissions from plants, but you don’t wholesale close them all down and jeopardize jobs from the mines and plants in your EPA quest to shut down energy production. I don’t think even you will appreciate your electricity costs willdoubling or tripling as the President promised.
“Saftey” is all we hard rock miners want. To come back home to our familys each and every night in one peice. Is that to much to ask form a hard days work from a company who if they did not make $$ would not be in the busness. These big companys could do a lot more to insure our saftey. Wew all need to work togethertoward that “SAFE” goal, OK?? “DAV”> a retired hard rock miner. (@ 50 Years, Old, broken and beaten)………..
i think oyu tree huggers should go back to whatever state you came from and let us counrty people mine our coal and make our money , we got families too ya know ..,,, and show me one mass produced substatuion for ming coal ????
i think you tree huggers should go back to whatever state you came from and let us counrty people mine our coal and make our money , we got families too ya know ..,,, and show me one mass produced substatuion for ming coal ????
After 50 years (I’m now 64) we’re all broken and beaten.
Out of college, I worked in the coal mines and became a mine foreman. I’m a registerd mining engineer, but no longer work around coal mines. I do work to recycle coal combustion by-products. There is always room for improvement, but I also know that my 7 year old grandaughter could find violations if she walked through a coal mine. Most are a result of poor house-keeping and have absolutely nothing to do with corporate greed. That political BS is couterproductive.
The air along the Ohio River, where I live and work is cleaner than at anytime in my life. There are coal-fired power plants about evey 20 miles on this river.
I carried coal into our home for heating our “warm morning” stove and I carried the ashes out each day as a boy. My dad did that for 40+ years and he is now 88 years old.
Clean coal and safe mining have become a reality, but not by political will. Rather it was accomplished through the application of technology and the professional leadership of our mining contemporaries. Government folks are jerking knees for a living, and the media sobbers over apparatchiks like Mr. Main. My Dad, my grandfathers and my great grandfathers all worked in the coal mines of Kentucky. Coal provided us all with a future.