New Mine To Employ 600

[The Straight Story]

New Mine To Employ 600
River View Mine Already Employs 150

WAVERLY, Ky. -- A new coal mine in western Kentucky is expected to employ up to 600 people by early next year.

About 150 miners are already working at Alliant Coal Company’s $270 million River View mine in Union County.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony on Friday attracted Gov. Steve Beshear and Kentucky basketball head coach John Calipari. Calipari went underground with a group of miners before the event.

Union County Judge-executive Jody Jenkins said the new mine will allow miners in Union County to work closer to home.

River View General Manager Heath Lovell said the mine could reach 600 employees by February.

http://www.wlky.com/money/21035124/detail.html

[el_bryanto]

1. Is this good news or bad news?

Good news if you are a miner in Waverly, KY, I suppose.

Bryant

[MNDemNY]

3. And bad news if you are anyone else that breaths air.

[doc03]

6. I suggest we just shut off all the coal fired power

plants starting tomorrow and then see what you say. They supply 54% of our electricity.

[MNDemNY]

8. We can start tomorrow. Are you really defending burning coal?

I know it is a major part of electricity generation, but it MUST be phased out. There is NO "clean coal".

[doc03]

10. There is no clean coal? I just had a conversation

with a UMWA Union official this morning, he told me they are building coal plants today in China using the latest technology that we developed. He said the problem in this country is the power companies want to keep operating their old plants and don't want to spend the money to build new clean plants. A company was in the final stages of engineering work to build a hydro plant on the Ohio River last fall. A couple months ago I was talking to an employee of the Army Corp of Engineers that operates the dam, I asked him what ever happened to the hydro plant they were going to build at the dam. Guess what AEP threw every road block up they could so they finally dropped the whole idea.

[MNDemNY]

11. "Cleaner" , maybe, "clean" nope.

And, do you think the promotion of coal had , maybe, a little to do with the nixing of the hydro plant?? Economical, does NOT equal "clean"

[doc03]

12. Follow the money clean coal is there, it's just a matter

of who is going to pay for it. Wind power is "cleaner" not "clean". Just what power generating process is "clean" by your standards?

[doc03]

14. Wind mills are "clean" right? My Union the USWA

supports the cap and trade. You know why? Every wind mill contains tons and tons of steel. In order to make steel you make pollution. You need ore, it has to mined somewhere. You need coal it has to mined somewhere. You have many other materials that are mined and chemicals that are used in a mill. You need electricity, water, oil, gas, etc. So even a wind mill isn't "clean". Windmills also take up a lot of acreage and you have environmental issues there. just what energy is "clean"? I could go on about a hydro dam or even solar power. You have to break some eggs to make an omelet.

[MNDemNY]

15. But you do not have to burn coal to make electricity.

[doc03]

17. Just what the f--- is your solution then?

[madville]

13. Won't be phased out anytime soon

It's almost impossible to build a new nuclear plant nowadays and every time you turn around green energy is getting caught up in red tape. Several members of our party have worked to kill renewable energy projects (wind and solar)in their states, Feinstein and Kennedy are some of the more notable ones.

[doc03]

16. Exactly, wasn't it Ted Kennedy that didn't want

windmills spoiling his view? Honestly I have no idea what the extremists would find acceptable other than if we all turned Amish. Even their livestock produce unacceptable amounts of methane I suppose.

[The Straight Story]

4. Good news imho

If a big high rise was built and employed 600 new people - think of the negative affect of that on environment.

All the electricity used by them, water, gas to get to work, and on and on.

Digging up coal is not the issue, burning it might well be.

600 more people will have work and be able to pay their bills and feed their families.

[MNDemNY]

9. That is an interesting spin.

[doc03]

2. The mines are the only place hiring around here,

it's hard to find people willing to work in a mine. I'm out of work and the mines pay good but I want nothing to do with any underground job. One thing makes it very hard to find workers is you have to be drug free, that's hard to find in recent generations.

[ikojo]

5. Non union jobs, I'm sure.

Two of my nephews work in a non union mine in Illinois.

Does the mine worker's union even exist anymore?

[doc03]

7. We have Union mines hiring right here today

if you take the training are willing to work. The non-union mines usually pay just as much and even more and have excellent benefits, they will pay more just to keep the Union out.