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I could write about coal miners in Northern Pennsylvania, and people would ask if I was writing about my dad.
We do expect there will be some big centralised miners that will have a lots of storage and economies of scale. But there will also be a large cloud of small miners all over the world.
Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.
I remember being amazed that actors had a union. I thought only coal miners had unions, or guys that worked in automobile plants. That’s an indication of how naive I was.
Every coal miner I talked to had, in his history, at least one story of a cave-in. ‘Yeah, he got covered up,’ is a way coal miners refer to fathers and brothers and sons who got buried alive.
A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father’s side, and it’s sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations… four or maybe five generations.
All too often miners, and indeed other trade unionists, underestimate the economic strength they have.
Our view is that the very best data miners or statisticians can earn as much as the very best golfers or tennis players.
I don’t meet stockbrokers or carpenters or coal miners; I spend all day with actors, composers and photographers.
All my life I’ve been interested in politics. I went on the miners march when I was six months old. My parents are really political.
The Treaty of Fort Laramie established most of what would later become South Dakota as a reservation, along with the Black Hills. But the treaty did not stop miners, buffalo hunters, railroad men, or settlers from intruding on Lakota lands.
I joined the Communist Party when I was 18. When I was 10, there was the miners’ strike, and the Cold War was going on; it was quite a potent time to get involved in politics. I got involved through my grandfather, who was a member.
Segregated Witness was forced onto the miners by the community.
Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.
The public subsidies provided to miners, loggers, and ranchers are as extravagant and as harmful to the public interest as the subsidies that the Federal Reserve and Treasury provide to the ‘banks too big to fail.’
The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.
I’m the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity – using clean, renewable energy as the key – into coal country, because we’re going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business.
Predators, they’re the best coal miners’ canary. When they’re gone, you’ve got a sick ecosystem.
If politicians want to save money, that’s fine. They can look for all the wasteful spending they want, but not where the lives of miners are involved.
My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
Stacks of job-killing Executive Orders and regulations from the Obama era need to be repealed or rolled back. At the top of the stack is the Clean Power Plan, which has put tens of thousands of American coal miners out of work.
Keeping our Eastern coalfields and our miners working is critical to national security.
I don’t think that all the coal miners – or even more realistically, say, the truck drivers whose jobs may be put out by self-driving cars and trucks – they’re all going to go and become web designers and programmers.
Each time a new disaster puts miners in the news, the press tries to make them into heroes, but they don’t quite fit the bill. They don’t march off to war or rush into burning buildings or rid our streets of crime.
Africa is where commodities are found, so it is vital that Glencore and other miners are there to develop those resources, helping Africa itself to grow at the same time.
Well, I’ll tell you, one of things I’m proud of is for someone from Southern California, who didn’t grow up around coal mines, I learned a lot that tragic day we lost twenty-nine miners at Upper Big Branch coal mine.
I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I’ve talked to coal miners, and that’s really hard work.
My father and brothers were coal miners.
Scientists didn’t discover the noble gas helium – the second most common element in the universe – on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
The setting of ‘Billy Elliot’ is the British miners’ strike of 1984-85, about which the average American playgoer knows absolutely nothing.
When you talk about the coal communities we need a senator to protect the benefits these coal miners need and deserve and earned, because coal powered our country in the 20th Century.
In the future, I expect to see bitcoin mining in places where electricity is free or cheap. You could put solar array in the Arizona desert attached to bitcoin miners, and instead of trying to ship that electricity all over world, you could ship Bitcoin all over the world.
Instead of attacking and dividing our people, I’ll focus on better paying jobs, career and skills training, and apprenticeships. And I’ll always protect our miners and your health care.
