Word: consolation
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...million tons, including some extracted from right beneath Highway 50. With both contracts due to expire on Jan. 1, the utility saw a chance to pit the two against each other in an all-or-nothing bid to be the plant's major coal supplier. It asked both Consol and Mettiki to bid for a five-year contract, with a buyer's option to renew for an additional two. Word went out in August 1995 that Consol had won, apparently assuring the future of the Potomac mines through the end of the century and beyond...
...There has been plenty of evidence from past experience that the last thing the economy needs is an increase in energy costs," says William Karis, executive vice president of CONSOL, the second largest U.S. coal company. Concurs Thomas Kuhn, president of the Edison Electric Institute, which represents major power companies: "The best way to increase revenues is to encourage the expansion of business activity. Energy taxes do the opposite...
...been two years since the disaster at Consol No. 9 trapped 78 men in a trembling, burning tomb beneath Marion County, W. Va. Consol No. 9 was one of the worst tragedies in the history of an industry that has seen tens of thousands of tragedies, and for the families the end of it has not yet been reached. TIME Correspondent Arthur White visited the small communities near Farmington. where the wives, children and parents of Consol No. 9's victims -222 dependents in all-search to honor the dead. His report...
...timbered, rolling hills of Marion County have seen death, and the markers dot the landscape. Here 361 perished at Monongah in 1907. There is Mount Calvary Cemetery where hundreds of them were buried in mass graves. In Farmington, there is a monument to 16 men killed in Consol No. 9 in 1954. Up the street races a boy whose father died in those same shafts two years ago. Out at the entrance to the Llewellyn Portal-the center of the explosions and fires on Nov. 20. 1968-a wooden frame holds a dozen bouquets put there on the second anniversary...
...strike with fear each day they enter the mines will be forever shaken. "Mine folklore says they must be got out. To go down every day, the miner must know that if anything goes wrong, there will be unrelenting effort to get him out. If they give up in Consol No. 9, even though they're dead, miners will remember and fear it may happen to the living one day. A miner has his legends...