In June King Bush the 3rd met with Coal companies, environmentalist booed, and his spokesman said he met with them because they are job creators. Coal mines and supporting industry have been losing a lot of jobs the last few years, while mine production has fallen only a couple of percent.
Automation, bigger faster machines, more explosives, mountain top removal rather than shaft work are the primary cause of loss of jobs.
King Bush III met with King Coal for money, and for that money he promised to attack Pope Francis when he says we are hosing up our world. "Leave it to scientist" Santorum said yesterday. Guess what, the Pope is also a scientist.
“Pope Francis is not the only moral or religious leader speaking out on this issue,” says Rabbi Rieber from Kansas. “The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katherine Jefferts Shori, have both recently made strong statements calling for action on climate change and calling denial of the problem ‘a sin.’ And over 300 rabbis have signed a ‘Rabbinic Letter on the Climate Crisis.’ So this is truly an multi-faith effort.”
One of my cousins helped eliminate some of those coal jobs. He is an engineer and he developed a system where the coal is ground up and mixed with water to make a slurry then pumped out of the mine.
ReplyDeleteKulkuri, yep, there a lot new methods being introduced that cuts the number of miners. But the politicians want us to believe it's Obama/EPA war on coal thats doing it. In fact it's not a war on coal its a war on smoke and poison. They can install scrubbers and keep burning coal if they want to. But wind is cheaper now, and solar is near equal in some areas.
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