[Old School]

Some of both. The guys that I was talking about jumping to different jobs, were surface. The first buddy works in an underground,his company has a pretty much open call for people that have a card and can pee clean. The point is, that it isn't as bad as conservatives would have you believe. The link shows it. In my trade, I used to have to travel all over to find the work. Some of the miners around here might have to do what a lot of us have done for years, travel to the work.

I work in the industry, and believe me it is getting bad, the company I work for has not had a new permit issued by the EPA in three years. Most companies have always been able to keep areas permitted ahead, these existing permits are now being mined and since no new permits are being issued by the EPA and companies are now starting to mine out of places to work.