Posted on 09/30/2015 7:43:51 AM PDT by george76
Bowie Resource Partners plans to lay off nearly 100 people at its Bowie #2 Mine near Paonia in the latest setback to coal employment in the North Fork Valley.
The company said Tuesday that it anticipates laying off 78 workers and 19 contractors from the mine, where 181 full-time employees and 19 contractors work now.
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it is continuing to evaluate the market for the mine’s coal after losing a contract to sell to the Tennessee Valley Authority a year ago. The loss of that contract caused Bowie to eliminate about 150 jobs at that time.
Bowie operates three underground mines in Utah along with the one near Paonia.
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Paonia Mayor Neal Schwieterman called the latest layoffs “absolutely” tough economic news for the region. ... these are the best-paying jobs in the valley so they’re hard to replace .. the idling of Oxbow Mining’s Elk Creek Mine in Somerset in 2013
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The departure of some residents has resulted in impacts to everything from the real estate market to the local school district .. Kurt Clay, assistant superintendent of Delta County Schools, said the new layoffs raise concerns about future impacts to the district.
Its funding is based on enrollment, which topped out at more than 5,500 in 2009 and is around 4,800 now, he said. The district was forced to make some significant staffing cuts about two years ago.
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WildEarth Guardians sued the government .. involving several mines in other states. It raised some of the same issues it successfully raised in another case involving mine expansion approvals near Craig, in which a judge agreed with the group that the government should have accounted for the climate impacts of burning coal in considering the approvals.
(Excerpt) Read more at gjsentinel.com ...
I agree and see your points.
We have many wells that have been drilled and are now tapped so in that sense, it is already out of the ground.
Thank God so much was in the works when POS Obama came on the scene and he hasn’t been able to stop as much as he’d like.
Delta County 2012 Election Results
Romney 68.6%
obama 28.9%
Delta County 2008 Election Results
McCain 65.1%
obama 32.9%
Colorado ain't West-by-God. What were the results in your county?
I was speaking in general..unions are unions
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