Mining Quotes
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
There were some people and corporations that wanted to open up the Grand Canyon for mining.
President Jimmy Carter had invoked the Taft-Hartley Labor Law, which forced the striking workers to go back to work for a 100 day “cooling off” period.
Most mine safety initiatives have only been passed or implemented after a major mine disaster. This type of inertia, in most fields, is unfortunately typical of legislative calendars and agendas where only a few items are high priority at any one time.
The alarm that we were running out of energy sources was first raised because the steam engine would take so much coal. Lardner, felt that there was a much larger supply than needed for steam engines.
In order to develop the country she invited immigrants to come to Russia and many did at the same time that England was encouraging immigrants to develop the lands and resources of America
As a member of the Crow Tribe living on the Montana Crow Reservation, she recieved, alomg with all other tribal members, about $225 every quarter for the royalty payments that a commercal coal mining company paid on the coar that they mined on the Crow land. The demand for coal had been steadily decreasing for over a decade since coal was the worst of the fossil fules in terms of polluting the air and emitting greenhouse gases increasing the global warming. With the Fracking technology, oil had become much less expensive as was natural gas, making coal not only the dirtiest fuel for producing electricity but one of the most expensive whereas in the past it had been the least expensive. The Montana Crow Reservation was econmically destitute, with no industry, very little agriculture, and littel else to help the local economy other than the royalty payments for coal mining. In other parts of the country otehr Indian nations were giving up economic benefits that came from enviornmentally damaging commercial activity and there was some pressure on teh Crow nation to close the reservation to coal mining. Ms. Ten Bear Reed's quotation illustrated the great dilemma that she, the Crow, other Indian tribes and general citizens all over the country. For decades many areas of the country had been in economic recession, and poverty was endemic. The royalties from coal mining, oil drilling, pipeline right of way and other commecial activities that did or potentially threatened the enviornment was in many cases the only cash families and tribes recieved or it was a large proportion of their income. The moral dilemma was profound when there were chilren to feed and care for. it was much harder for the poor to be environmentally conscious than for people who were economivally better off.
Actually starting in the Obama Administration, his ship and a NOAAA Government Research ship both were surveying the new undersea areas, However, it would take 20 such ships to do the job in the next decade–so vast was the new territory that we now have.
