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Yes I work for only one coal company, I found that working for
more than one was too much for me to handle. I have many friends
that work for other coal companies and they are in the same position,
one will be out of surface permits within 3 months, another has about
2 years left and the others are in between those two. FYI we are also
hiring, employees are leaving us for other companies that have a longer
life and we have to fill those positions to maintain our production. If
you compare West Virginia's total production (UG and Surface) 165
million for 08 to 144 million for 09, while the number of miners have
increased from 20,207 in 08 to 27,892 in 09. This means production per
minier has dropped 8,165 tons per year in 08 to 5,162 tons per year in 09.
Is this drastic drop due to mining conditions, or new regulations or something else?


been in the mines for 34 years this is the best i have

seen it since i first started in 1977 why?

one thing there was no such thing as mountain top

removal they would just strip around the points

so everything was underground then i think in 77 we had

about 275000 underground coal miners then they come up

mountaintop removal where it don't take 25% of the men

and twice the coal then they flood the market which drives

down the price of coal now who do you think that hurt's

it hurts the working people because that's the easy thing to cut

today the mines are safer wages are higher why because the

demand for coal is up

i'm gonna give you some more good advise you probaly won't

listen stay away from fox news read a paper or something