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The coal companies
of the past were greedy. The coal companies today are not only
greedy, they're ruthless in the way they treat the people. They
are creating problems that the average person is just not going
to be able to deal with. -- Freda Williams,
Whitesville, WV |
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They're a bunch
of extremists that won't settle for nothing less than the abolition
of coal mining, and they don't care who they hurt to get there.
Who they're hurting here is coal miners and their families. --
Terry Vance, Arch Coal Local 29-35 |
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Every day they
are taking a slice of their future away. And when they get to the
very end, and this is the last paycheck in their hands, they won't
have a past because they destroyed it, and they won't have a future
because the mine left them. What do they do now? All they know
is how to mine. -- Larry Gibson, Redhouse,
WV |
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In southern
West Virginia you don't want to take away one job, we can't afford
it, we just cannot afford to lose one person's job. But I will
say one thing, if they would go back to the traditional way of
mining, we would have a lot more miners. I really believe that.
-- Donna Green, Ball WV |
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The
communities would be shrinking anyway because economic opportunities
are difficult to come by. The only thing that supports these
regions are these very large strip mines and they don't employ
the number of people the mining industry has traditionally employed. --
Joe Lovett, Mountain State Justice |
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There are more
people benefiting from coal than just us. You got a parking lot
full of new cars here. We spend most of our money right here in
this state and a lot of it right here in this county. -- Terry
Blankeship, Arch Coal, Local 29-35 |
