Coal mine reopens

[rivergator]

Before the election, the CEO of Murray Energy announced the permanent closing of a coal mine, blaming it completely on Obama. It's now reopened.

link (http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/112149/obamas-coal-country-nemesis-hiring-again#)

[wygator]

Obama quotes: "If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them," and electricity rates will "necessarily skyrocket".
Nov. 8, 2008

[gatorman_07732]

Wait until those boys get a visit for the EPA sheriff. I think we have a problum oround heya

http://www.frugal-cafe.com/public_html/frugal-blog/frugal-cafe-blogzone/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/epa-coal-plants-closed.jpg

[wgbgator]

Before the election, the CEO of Murray Energy announced the permanent closing of a coal mine, blaming it completely on Obama. It's now reopened.

link (http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/112149/obamas-coal-country-nemesis-hiring-again#)

I assume that he's now blaming Obama for being forced to stay in business instead of retiring. :)

[wgbgator]

Also, just to be clear, does that make it everyone who made public these ridiculous claims about mass layoffs or closings full of crap? :)

[LittleBlueLW]

Also, just to be clear, does that make it everyone who made public these ridiculous claims about mass layoffs or closings full of crap? :)

Yes. But those that claimed everything was going to get turned around are just as full of it.

[rivergator]

Also, just to be clear, does that make it everyone who made public these ridiculous claims about mass layoffs or closings full of crap? :)

Yes. This board and elsewhere was full of it in the days after the election. Clear evidence of doom, they claimed. I remember people posting every layoff, from a chicken restaurant to a gift shop closing. Monumental stuff.

[rpmGator]

Natural Gas is killing coal. Cheaper and cleaner.

Oil powered plants are being replaced with NG as well. I see it as a good thing that coal is no longer the first choice due to cost.

[GatorSaint]

Amazing turnaround, huh?

:lie:

[LittleBlueLW]

Before the election, the CEO of Murray Energy announced the permanent closing of a coal mine, blaming it completely on Obama. It's now reopened.

link (http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/112149/obamas-coal-country-nemesis-hiring-again#)

Reopened? Reclamation activities are not part of active mining. Hiring back 1/5 of the work force to reclaim the mine is not 'reopening'.

I think your OP is misleading river if you read your link.

[gatorman_07732]

Good try river

When I reached them on the phone, Murray officials disputed that they were restarting operations at Red Bird West. The only work going on at the mine, they said, was "reclamation" required as part of any shutdown. "We're required to put things back together. We're picking up some remnants of coal, some coal that was left over, as we clean up the place," said Gary Broadbent, a senior attorney for the company. He said that there were 42 or 43 people at the mine doing this work, and while the work could go on for a few years, there would be no expansion at the mine, which at its peak employed more than 200 people. "It’s not going to be anything near what it used to be," he said. The head count "is going to stay low...We’re drawing down rather than building up...We were at 239 at our peak and now we’re down to skin and bones."

Addendum, January 25: Broadbent tells me that he looked into Murray Energy's Utah operations further and that there has been no new hiring there, but rather transfers of personnel from one Murray mine where the company is decreasing production, Lila Canyon, to another where it is trying to maintain production, West Ridge.

[northgagator]

Coal mining reclaimation. Here is an interesting read. http://www.groundtruthtrekking.org/Issues/AlaskaCoal/CoalMineReclamation.html

[neisgator]

Also, just to be clear, does that make it everyone who made public these ridiculous claims about mass layoffs or closings full of crap? :)

My small town has had over 200 people laid off from two different companies since the election. That's just what I know about...sure there are others in my town

[LittleBlueLW]

For once would

The OP come back to defend a BS thread.

[northgagator]

For once would

The OP come back to defend a BS thread.

It is going to take a while.
He is trying to find a way to parse his own words into defendable position.

[Juggernautz]

He may have discovered that he is a pseudopseudohypoparathyroidist.

[gatorman_07732]

It is going to take a while.
He is trying to find a way to parse his own words into defendable position.

That can take a long time

[Gatorrick22]

Yes. But those that claimed everything was going to get turned around are just as full of it.

Snap!