[Old School]

Interesting article, our own EPA is unable to track a large amount of the 90,000 tons of toxic waste that enters the U.S. each year from foreign countries.


http://dailycaller.com/2015/07/09/epa-cl...-annually/

[RunItUpTheGut]

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I read today that they intend to lay off several mine inspectors since the ruling went against them.
In all my years of being a part of the coal industry, ive always wondered why mine inspectors weren't on the side of the mining companies in most cases. If anything its job security. Now they have done so well at the democrats agenda, they are rewarding them with a pink slip nicker:

[Old School]

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I read today that they intend to lay off several mine inspectors since the ruling went against them.
In all my years of being a part of the coal industry, ive always wondered why mine inspectors weren't on the side of the mining companies in most cases. If anything its job security. Now they have done so well at the democrats agenda, they are rewarding them with a pink slip nicker:

MSHA's District office in Pikeville will be phased out within 15 months. Norton Va. and Barbourville Ky. offices will assume Pikeville's responsibilities. I also heard that MSHA's field offices at Martin, Phelps and Elkhorn will be closed.

I once ask an inspector what would happen when they shut down the coal industry, he said they were told they would not lose their job, they may be transferred to another location or another department, but they would have a job.

[TheRealThing]

MSHA's District office in Pikeville will be phased out within 15 months. Norton Va. and Barbourville Ky. offices will assume Pikeville's responsibilities. I also heard that MSHA's field offices at Martin, Phelps and Elkhorn will be closed.

I once ask an inspector what would happen when they shut down the coal industry, he said they were told they would not lose their job, they may be transferred to another location or another department, but they would have a job.

I would bet that inspectors are motivated with bonuses to find as much wrong as they possibly can. I some cases they stretch credibility in order to come up with stuff.

[Old School]

I would bet that inspectors are motivated with bonuses to find as much wrong as they possibly can. I some cases they stretch credibility in order to come up with stuff.

I have spoken to a few inspectors personally, and they basically said the same thing, and that is that they are called in on the carpet by their supervisors if they don't write a certain number of violations and they are basically trying to cover their own butts.

MSHA's mindset is the more violations they write, the safer the mines are, an d that is not the case at all. Most accidents occur to miners when they are doing the same task the same way they have hundreds of times before.

[64SUR]

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I read today that they intend to lay off several mine inspectors since the ruling went against them.
In all my years of being a part of the coal industry, ive always wondered why mine inspectors weren't on the side of the mining companies in most cases. If anything its job security. Now they have done so well at the democrats agenda, they are rewarding them with a pink slip nicker:

I worked 5 yrs as a underground coal miner and 5 years as a state mine inspector for natural resources. And believe me I looked the other way and it wasn't for job security. It was to KEEP COAL ALIVE.....My first 2 yrs was spent on cane creek and Wolfe creek in Whitley county....MSHA' s call me once from Washington DC and ask me why I hadn't written any violations in Whitley County. I told them they all look liked a golf course never hear back from them. :truestory: But understand I had over a hundred 2 acres permits. And maybe 20 big job site back in the late 80's. Wildcat city in the days. :HitWall:

[TheRealThing]

I have spoken to a few inspectors personally, and they basically said the same thing, and that is that they are called in on the carpet by their supervisors if they don't write a certain number of violations and they are basically trying to cover their own butts.

MSHA's mindset is the more violations they write, the safer the mines are, an d that is not the case at all. Most accidents occur to miners when they are doing the same task the same way they have hundreds of times before.

And added to that is the fact that the harder they make it on mine owners to operate, the harder it is to make a profit. And of course, the government will put all those fines and such to good use, in the form of a better funded EPA and in keeping those checks coming in. :biggrin:

[TheRealThing]

I worked 5 yrs as a underground coal miner and 5 years as a state mine inspector for natural resources. And believe me I looked the other way and it wasn't for job security. It was to KEEP COAL ALIVE.....My first 2 yrs was spent on cane creek and Wolfe creek in Whitley county....MSHA' s call me once from Washington DC and ask me why I hadn't written any violations in Whitley County. I told them they all look liked a golf course never hear back from them. :truestory: But understand I had over a hundred 2 acres permits. And maybe 20 big job site back in the late 80's. Wildcat city in the days. :HitWall:

Working as a mine inspector during the Reagan years could scarcely be compared to doing so during the Obama war on coal years.

[RunItUpTheGut]

I worked 5 yrs as a underground coal miner and 5 years as a state mine inspector for natural resources. And believe me I looked the other way and it wasn't for job security. It was to KEEP COAL ALIVE.....My first 2 yrs was spent on cane creek and Wolfe creek in Whitley county....MSHA' s call me once from Washington DC and ask me why I hadn't written any violations in Whitley County. I told them they all look liked a golf course never hear back from them. :truestory: But understand I had over a hundred 2 acres permits. And maybe 20 big job site back in the late 80's. Wildcat city in the days. :HitWall:

64, don't take this the wrong way, but your older than dirt nicker:

Coal was a good thing to the socialist back then because of there unions and no false global warming propaganda.
Think about it for a minute. Theres a reason all of a sudden mine inspectors started writing fine after fine after not giving a crap for years and it wasn't because of safety. I assure you coal miners the state of KY and the feds doesn't care if your dead or alive, but they do like your tax money. Now there emission standards couldn't be attained, the fining for those was much better business, hence the reason we seen the company fines. In other words the fines bring in more dough than the tax money, and the "green products" bring in more tax money than any of it.

It all started when they quit wanting to give permits. It seemed like that was the turning point. Companies that had 3 or 4 job sites all went down to 1 before too long.

[RunItUpTheGut]

MSHA's District office in Pikeville will be phased out within 15 months. Norton Va. and Barbourville Ky. offices will assume Pikeville's responsibilities. I also heard that MSHA's field offices at Martin, Phelps and Elkhorn will be closed.

I once ask an inspector what would happen when they shut down the coal industry, he said they were told they would not lose their job, they may be transferred to another location or another department, but they would have a job.

And they believed the liberals in charge weren't lying to them? nicker:

Just like everybody else, they will feel the screwing of the government as well. They were used as henchmen for a pay check and now its time to roost. This is great news for area mines. I also heard bville was laying off something like 12 or 15, or may have heard it wrong.
I find it hard to believe that after shutting down Pikeville, and cutting slack at the other two, that's its even possible to get to half the jobs.