The story is not only about what environmentalism has done to the industry, it’s what the United Mine Workers Union did to it too.
Unionized businesses are like giant slugs that can’t move or do anything quickly or adapt to changes. The slime that holds them down is the Union and its marriage to the National Labor Board and cronyism and pandering that produces only a positive benefit for its ranking leaders and members. The “worker bee” is simply forgotten.
We have the worlds largest reserves of coal and look how the liberal environmental Nazis have destroyed the businesses and professions that can get it out of the ground and actually use it for energy.
Political Correctness is destroying our nation.
Obama announced in 2008 he would put the coal companies out of business. There has been a trend of non-union coal for the last 20 years. Large unionized companies selling off mines 1 at a time to smaller companies.
Obama’s moves are effecting all of them.