Word: coal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...NATION'S COAL STRIKE enters its 15th week--and it may very well go on longer, if the third contract offer by the Bituminous Coal Operators Association (BCOA) to the UMWA is not accepted by the rank-and-file--it is wise to remember exactly how important the strike is, both to the UMWA and to American labor in general...
...matter how the strike is eventually resolved, it will make coal more expensive. The settlement that the miners rejected two weeks ago would have added $3.17 a ton to coal's price (currently around $21). According to the Manhattan-based Edison Electric Institute, that would translate into a 15% increase in utility fuel costs, and a 5% increase in the average consumer's electricity bill...
There is already evidence that the conversion to alternatives to oil is being delayed. In the first nine months of 1977, U.S. utilities canceled or delayed construction of 26 major coal-fired plants, as well as 36 nuclear-powered ones. With the added impact of the coal strike, the future of Carter's coal-based energy policy looks, well, dark...
...puts it: "When God was distributing the elements over the earth, he grew tired when he got here, mixed up everything he had left, and dumped it haphazardly." BAM will eventually carry a marvelously mixed bag of these riches: petroleum from major new oilfields in Western Siberia, coal from Neryungri and Chulman, iron ore and gold from Aldan, diamonds from Yakutia, and salt, asbestos, molybdenum, copper, tin and bauxite from various areas. Shipped to Japan and other resource-hungry nations, such exports will help Moscow earn the foreign currency it needs to pay for technological development...
...taxmen also keep a close eye on press reports of people who have been promoted to high-paying jobs, won lotteries or otherwise struck it rich. A lush lode for the tax examiners was provided, for example, by a Washington, B.C., newspaper feature on Virginia's new coal millionaires...