Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember how the region was once exploited by Eastern railroads and financiers. "Billions of dollars came out of here, and none of the money remained," says Colorado's Lamm. "Can you blame us for feeling like a colony?" Says Montana Governor Thomas Judge: "They want to take our coal and take our water, and what do we have left? A couple of national parks...
...hardly more than live in New York City and its immediate environs. Venture ten minutes out side smoggy, clogged Phoenix and you suddenly enter an eerie desert that sweeps on for hundreds of miles. Drive north along Highway 13 in Colorado, away from the bustle and lights of a coal town like Craig, and you quickly find yourself in a land of buttes and canyons and endless sky, with gophers and prairie dogs scampering across the two-lane road and magpies fluttering overhead. Go down into southeastern Utah and head toward Moab. Take a right at the entrance to Canyonlands...
...companies into searching for additional supplies. Jimmy Carter gave the developers a big assist in 1979 when he announced his intention to tap the region's energy supplies by setting up an Energy Mobilization Board to speed up the building of refineries, pipelines, coal mines and synthetic fuel plants. He also proposed an Energy Security Corporation to funnel public funds for further research on developing the synthetic fuel industry. Though Congress voted down...
Though oil and gas now are the region's most valuable energy resources, coal could easily replace them if Washington so decides. The Mountain States hold some 50% of the nation's recoverable coal, with Montana and Wyoming containing the richest reserves. Wyoming alone has eight times as much low-sulfur coal as West Virginia and Kentucky combined. At the moment, the Powder River Basin straddling Montana and Wyoming attracts the most mining. Arco, Exxon, Sun and Kerr-McGee are already clawing the land, while Shell, Mobil and Peabody are laying plans to share in the basin...
Electric shovels that weigh as much as 3 million lbs. eat into the hillsides while dump trucks carrying 160 tons of coal roar out of the pits 24 hours a day. During the first year of operation in 1977, Arco took 40,000 tons out of its Black Thunder mine. It has now extracted 1 1 million tons, and will take out 20 million tons...