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West Virginia

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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1. Kind of surprised.

Reply to theHandpuppet (Original post)

Sat Aug 2, 2014, 06:47 AM

Aug 2014

I'd been reading about Chinese coal demand quite a bit of late.

Their Congressmen should put together a bill to create some subsidies for any corporation willing to set up wind turbine factories in that area, or wind farms on the flat areas on the mountains already leveled by mountaintop removal to help create new jobs there.

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1,100 Alpha miners in W.Va. warned of layoffs [View all] theHandpuppet Aug 2014 OP

Kind of surprised. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Aug 2014 #1

A lot of those contracts with India and China have been cancelled theHandpuppet Aug 2014 #3

Good grief what will these families do? littlemissmartypants Aug 2014 #2

They'll starve. theHandpuppet Aug 2014 #4