mamooth
Diamond Member
Just 44,000 people work in the coal industry now, with only 20,000 miners. There was a loss of 12,000 coal mining jobs over the Trump admin. Trump used the miners and then threw them away.
The coal miners are figuring that out.
That's the largest coal mining union presenting their plan to preserve Coal Country. Not coal, but Coal Country. UMWA President Cecil Robert's plan includes ... wait for it ... more green energy. Plus funding for cleaning up old coal mine messes. And it calls for a lot of social safety net stuff.
They're also calling for fudning more CCS, Carbon Capture & Storage for coal-burning plants. That's probably a waste, because CCS doesn't seem to work, not at any sane price. The previous attempt at it, the Kemper County Energy Facility in Mississippi, went so wildly over budget that they just decided to burn natural gas instead.
The coal miners are figuring that out.
That's the largest coal mining union presenting their plan to preserve Coal Country. Not coal, but Coal Country. UMWA President Cecil Robert's plan includes ... wait for it ... more green energy. Plus funding for cleaning up old coal mine messes. And it calls for a lot of social safety net stuff.
They're also calling for fudning more CCS, Carbon Capture & Storage for coal-burning plants. That's probably a waste, because CCS doesn't seem to work, not at any sane price. The previous attempt at it, the Kemper County Energy Facility in Mississippi, went so wildly over budget that they just decided to burn natural gas instead.