“They Don’t Care About West Virginia”
Jul 20 – “Coal is [West Virginia's] economic engine,” says WV Coal Association President Bill Raney. “Whether you like it or not, before you ask to take a person’s job, a coal miner’s job, please sit down and have a conversation about it. Don’t take a surface miner’s job based on policy. They want to mine coal and they’re good at it. They’re good people.” Raney met with Martinsburg-Berkeley County Chamber of Commerce to talk about the importance coal to the state and the frustration with an administration that is currently putting policy in front of jobs, the economic vitality of the state and a commonsense approach to the nation’s energy needs. “We’re under attack by the Obama administration,” says Raney. “They don’t care about West Virginia – they don’t care about Appalachia.” Read more in the The Journal.
