Word: coal
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...problem, as the people of Utah see it, is that the unspoiled land being placed under the federal bell jar is not just any unspoiled land. Locked in its rocks are as much as 62 billion tons of coal, 2 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas and 2 billion bbl. of oil--resources that could be worth billions of dollars and hundreds of jobs. So Utah, which has been scrapping with the Federal Government since statehood, is fighting back. Lawmakers are contemplating various legislative counterattacks, including enacting laws that guarantee continued access to the land, reducing the boundaries...
...otherworldly beauty of the place, President Clinton's decision to single it out for protection fell like a hammer blow in Utah. Segments of the local economy were already faltering, and with the ranching and logging industries falling on hard times, mining always seemed like a promising alternative. The coal from just one site in the monument could earn the state $3 billion. An additional $1 billion would flow into Utah's education system under a century-old provision that requires the state to use a percentage of all revenue from public lands to build and maintain schools...
...thing sure to unite an angry nation: poverty. In the industrial town of Pernik, 2,000 miners gathered at dawn at the regional mining directors' office, demanding higher wages as well as the ouster of the director. Evtim Evtimov, strike committee leader at the St. Anna coal mine, reminded workers that late wages were paid immediately when miners threatened to strike last month. "That means there is money," he said. "We won't back off these demands." Until this week, protesters in Bulgaria were mostly white-collar workers and students. But now the Socialists are finally losing the support...
...thing sure to unite an angry nation: poverty. In the industrial town of Pernik, 2,000 miners gathered at dawn at the regional mining directors' office, demanding higher wages as well as the ouster of the director. Evtim Evtimov, strike committee leader at the St. Anna coal mine, reminded workers that late wages were paid immediately when miners threatened to strike last month. "That means there is money," he said. "We won't back off these demands." Until this week, protesters in Bulgaria were mostly white-collar workers and students. But now the Socialists are finally losing the support...
...might think this makes me bitter, playing digital Salieri to Kinsley's Mozart. But I am a realist. I need Kinsley the same way a coal miner needs his canary. Which is to say, if I see him topple from his perch as an online publisher, I'm dashing for the exit. That's part of the reason I made a point of meeting him for dinner the last time I visited Seattle. I was worried...