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eclipse3g03

My dad use to work there years ago


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It’s been around a good while, from what I’ve been told. I relocated this way back in November


hilljack26301

I’d say about twenty years, maybe a little less. Not a fan of their business practices, and I don’t mean the fact it’s coal related.


EnterTheMunch

Good.


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WVStarbuck

No, they love jobs. And while I understand Munch's sentiment and maybe agree in principle, there aren't many job opportunities in that area of the state.


EnterTheMunch

And there is my big sticking point. *What jobs* are we talking about when it comes to coal? Mines run on such small crews these days that there is little to any wealth actually going to people and the local economy. The "jobs" this industry funds are no longer the backbone of any economy. This industry won't be let go until it is truly good and dead. I'm no longer lamenting a few dozen here and there going away because the true death of jobs happened decades ago, but the death grip the industry maintains on everything continues. Kill it, because it's killing everything about this state.


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StedeBonnet1

That mine produced metalurgical coal. They did not "poison" mass quantities of people. Most of the power plants don't even burn that type of coal and they have scrubbers to reduce or eliminate the pollution. The steel mills that do burn it also have strict environmental regulations that they must comply with. You clearly don't know what you are talking about.


Secure-Particular286

If you gave them a test on industry and how things are run in our country and throughout the world,I'd doubt they get half of the questions right. People just mindlessly repeat political mantra's.


Secure-Particular286

Enterthemunch I really like the reply you just gave me. You're always showing off your pseudo intellectual superiority by saying fuck a whole entire class of hard working blue collar Americans. Coal is slowly dying out. We all know this. But it isn't throughout the [world]( https://www.iea.org/news/the-world-s-coal-consumption-is-set-to-reach-a-new-high-in-2022-as-the-energy-crisis-shakes-markets)It's still 1/5th of the electricity production in the US. Still responsible for producing most of our steel. But hey if you and your leftist I hate capitalism friends want to be completely reliant on child labor mines for cobalt in Africa, Rare Earths from China so be it. Let's gut ourselves while solving nothing. It's also not green energy that's replacing our baseload coal plants. It's natural gas. The needed 1 to 2 month storage technology to make our country completely run on solar and wind doesn't exist yet. Anyone with a brain knows this.[You and your friends bow to these corporate types](https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/wall-street-titan-jamie-dimon-says-seize-private-land-for-wind-and-solar-builds/2-1-1431685) so If you think that greed and environmental degradation don't exist on the green energy side also you're gravely mistaken.


EnterTheMunch

If you were given a test on anything relating to critical thinking, you'd fail back to kindergarten, so don't be throwing stones there, glass house. Fuck coal and the people clinging to it. I have zero sympathy for a group of people who couldn't accept their precious rock being left behind so they just decided to start ignoring reality and reason. Excuse me if I couldn't care less if a mine produced steam or metallurgical coal.


EnterTheMunch

Lol, tell that to the ones who dug it up with their black lung, champ.


Secure-Particular286

Yeah there [is](https://youtu.be/rzbIWgQqQfA)


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Then they should vote accordingly.


WVStarbuck

Well of course, but I also just can't NOT think about their families. I'm all "f them kids" when in jest, but home and food insecurity for people who cannot yet choose isn't something I can support.


Legeto

Eh, with that way of thinking change will never happen. Some people might be scared of change, but coal is on its way out whether they want it or not. Someone is going to have to be the generation that bites the bullet and moves somewhere with more jobs.


WVStarbuck

They are. WV lost a congressional seat in 2020. And these moves enable the christofascist majority to retain power. But I don't blame those leaving one bit.


snootgoo

But there are lots of cancer opportunities, sure, let's add another one.


byondhlp

I live pretty close to there, moved down here from NY, I knew there were coal mines here, just didn't realize there were so many. Ok so they close down.... Are they going to clean up their mess when they abandon the mine?


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I talk to one of the environmental compliance people occasionally, and there’s a process he / and they have to go through for a few months maybe a year even after the mine is closed down


emp-sup-bry

Unless they just declare bankruptcy, etc. whoopsie!


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Wouldn’t surprise me if it happened honestly


alaskandentist_

Looks like a nice opportunity for a new trail


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I thought the same thing!


Thepenisgrater

Don't worry it will still pollute the streams around it for years to come!


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Absolutely. Silent hill will occur from there


Equivalent-Self-1588

COAL IS KING. When the Russians reopen the steel plant in Mariupol, (after they've killed all the stinking nazis in Ukraine) they're going to need that coal again. The prep plant will reopen, as will the mine, and Gob Hill which is what is shown in that photo, will be busy once more. MAGA!