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Old 07-01-2019, 09:46 PM
 
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Old 07-02-2019, 11:40 AM
 
Location: Cabin Creek
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a lot of signs Campbell county, Gillette stay strong...
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Old 07-02-2019, 01:29 PM
 
Location: Rust Belt, OH
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Wow, this is devastating news. I feel terrible for all of those working families.
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Old 07-02-2019, 05:47 PM
 
Location: Wyoming
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My son works for them. He's scheduled to be off until Thursday or Friday, so he's just waiting until then to do anything. Worst part of it is that he's scheduled to sell his current house and close on a new one in a week or two -- downsizing but not by much and moving off the golf course. It's a mess. He's not in a hurry to start looking for other work since he's been there for more than 2 decades and would have to take a big hit in the pocketbook, instead hoping the mine can find some kind of financing real soon.

I drove past one of the mines this afternoon. It's sad seeing all the machinery idled. Belle Ayr was the first major mine to open in the area in the early-70s, followed a few years later by Eagle Butte. It's hard to believe they might just fill in the holes and button it up. That would take years to do and be a huge waste of the coal that's uncovered and ready to be mined, but it could happen.
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Old 07-03-2019, 06:03 PM
 
Location: Aishalton, GY
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So who's left to dig coal?
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Old 07-04-2019, 06:56 AM
 
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I'll bet anything China/Mongolia and south-eastern Russia will be going full-on coal-mining now...


...won't be much to stop them, will there ? They need energy for a growing-population, and that population will need cheap, readily-available heat & fuel-sources...


I seriously doubt the milque-toast, limp-wristed dinks at the U.N. or 'N.W.O' folks will be able to do much...and I guess that's a good thing, actually...because I really don't think this planet should be 'micro-managed' by a small group of 'effete-elites' who clearly do NOT know how to manage thier way out of a paper-bag, let-alone figure out a way to keep everybody adequately employed, housed & fed.
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Old 07-04-2019, 10:24 AM
 
Location: Cabin Creek
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sad watching guy wander the streets in Gillette already
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Old 07-04-2019, 06:36 PM
 
Location: Aishalton, GY
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I'll bet anything China/Mongolia and south-eastern Russia will be going full-on coal-mining now...


...won't be much to stop them, will there ? They need energy for a growing-population, and that population will need cheap, readily-available heat & fuel-sources...

China has been doing something with coal not seen since Germany did it in WW2. Coal gasification project takes 1000m/t coal and converts it to 250 m/t diesel. And, they are building 50 plants across the country to reduce its dependence on foreign oil. You won't see it in this country because all the nimbys and wussies won't allow it.
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Old 07-04-2019, 11:36 PM
 
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A thought just now occurred to me...I watch alot of movies...buy DVD's to good one's, those which make alot of awards, critics rave about them, etc...I have 'The Last Emporer' (a movie about China's last emporer who was sent into exhile, and later caught, sent to 're-education-prison by Communist-leaders...directed by a famous Italian director, oddly enough) there's a major portion of the movie which goes into detail about how Japan's own military-regime set him up as a 'puppet-leader' of Mongolia (which was'nt difficult, given his birth in that region) which went badly for ALL involved...

...there was a very brief mention of 'coal' during this sequence of the movie...

So that would mean the region was already deeply involved in coal prior-to WW2...

...HAD to have been, given that Japan rolled the dice & played thier cards THAT deeply inside the continent...they wanted those resources so badly, they did'nt care what it took, to get control of it.

Funny I never thought about it until just now...it was mostly the life of that young-man (and everyone who was closely involved with him) which my attentions were focused on...

Strange, that back then, the axis of evil was: Hitler/Mussolini & Japan...

...we made it through the cold-war, only to watch a new axis develop, with Iran, North Korea & I am thinking now South America, if missiles are being shipped or built there...

...unless these 'waves' of incoming migrants to our southern-border are actually TRAINED to come across, apply for asylum, disperse amongst us all...and then wait for a signal of some sort, to...do...'whatever' ? ? ?

God, I hope I'm wrong...there's so many living among us already...
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Old 07-06-2019, 11:04 PM
 
Location: We_tside PNW (Columbia Gorge) / CO / SA TX / Thailand
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I'll bet anything China/Mongolia and south-eastern Russia will be going full-on coal-mining now.......
Look for foreign investment to buy any productive energy resources in USA.
'Turn-key' would be quite interesting to them. (everything in place to start production / + immediate cash flows)

Most countries are far more 'strategic' than a short sighted (4 yr political cycle) USA.

Many of the installed wind systems in USA are owned by foreign businesses and countries who delight in us(a) paying them in perpetuity for power that USA wind, land, and systems generate and distribute. (ez money (high value Green backs) + US subsidies to the foreign companies to make the capital investment.

Recently a friend was looking for capital to expand a US manufacturing business.
Foreign companies, banks and countries were lined up with offers / desire to assist.
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