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New coal cleaning facility opens in Pennsylvania
That will last about as long as it takes the environ-mentalists to figure out where the facility is located, so they can then sabotage operations, just to make their point. Never mind their point is based in alternative reality, not real science.
“Excess capacity in the industry?” This happens when you force power plants out of business. Thank you Mr. President.
Drop in coal usage at power plants is driven by market force of cheap natural gas. Coal industry is now on an export push.
There is excess capacity in the industry because the natural gas power plants produce electricity cheaper plus there has been no severe heat or cold for awhile. Here in NH the PSNH power plant which is coal fired is shut down most of the time because PSNH says it can buy electricity on the open market for less money than it would cost them to generate it.
Jim and Jeff, couldn’t have said it better than you two did. This country has approx. 200 years worth of coal that can continue to power this country. That means jobs for Americans, money not being spent on foreign oil, and a source of energy that doesn’t need to be subsidized by the taxpayer.
Let’s hear one for the much maligned coal industry!!
Let’s hear one for the much maligned coal industry!!
Jim there is excess coal capacity because power plants are shifting over to natural gas, not because they are going out of business. Jeffery, what are you talking about?! Would you please stop using Trains News Wire as your forum for Conservative conspiracy theories.
Coal power plants are not forced out of business; the power companies are converting to natural gas now that the supply looks to be sustainable. The total GW of power is increasing; not with coal powered plants.
And remember that jobs are created as well as eliminated with pollution controls. Each source of power should bear all-inn costs and not push-off costs on to the public.
In some of the comment sections of other articles related to coal and energy movements via railroad, there have been calls for coal to “reinvent” itself in order to remain relevant and marketable in the new economics of the world. Could this article represent a very small step on that path which could portend a bright new future for “black diamonds”?