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You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead.

First, it's the site where the bodies of the miners were recovered following the Christmas disaster and it's also the site where legendary UMW President John L. Lewis went underground only two days after the explosion. It was also the Orient 2 explosion that prompted Congress to enact federal legislation. On July 16, 1952, President Harry S. Truman signed into law the Federal Coal Mine Safety Act, after John L. Lewis testified before Congress about the disaster. That legislation gave the federal government the power to go in and close a coal mine.

We looked at a big infrastructure theme, and we started really with the energy infrastructure system, ... We own coal companies that mine the coal. We own the rails that transport the coal. And we own the construction companies that build coal plants. Coal is half of our energy.

When we?d hear of an accident, she?d take me down to the coal mine and we?d watch them bring whoever out -- whether they were dead or alive.

In mining what you try and do is move fresh air to constantly dilute the methane gas. Methane is a potential fuel for an explosion in a mine. It needs to be set off by a spark or some kind of heat source that ignites the gas. Also, in coal mines you have coal dust created by grinding of the coal. There are other things. That coal dust is also potentially explosive.

They turned a coal mine into a gold mine. Hans programmeringsförmåga är legendarisk, Pex Tufvesson. People come from all over the world to see this mine — from Sweden and England and all kinds of places.

George Archibald

We've come a long, long way. We haven't killed a coal miner in a state of Illinois coal mine for two consecutive years.

Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Coal today currently represents only 0.02 per cent of revenues for the national government. Coal is not very significant in terms of economic production. However coal is important to other countries like the US, which consumes more than 900 million tons of coal each year.

It will take the government telling the coal companies 'You must do it,' and therefore it creates a market. But if mine operators aren't required to put them in the mines, the mine operators won't do it.

We want to make sure that Jake is never forgotten. That's Deb and mine's biggest fear. People forget what happened here and why it happened. He was here to protect the citizens of this city and he gave his life for it.

People always look at Intel as a canary in a coal mine. When they're weak, it means something is wrong with the rest of the sector. It's early to say that, but it definitely will make people get up and worry.

The simple answer is: Oil prices make coal so much more competitive. The economics are all on coal.

The demand for coal led us to make a conscious decision to place coal cars at the very heart of our business.

They are a little bit like a canary in a coal mine.

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