Coal mines back East may be shutting down – but a new coal mine in Utah is set to open. This comes after another was granted rights to a new coal seam under the Obama administration.
“It would be a boon to the Utah economy. … We are talking in the neighborhood of 100 employees,” Atwood added. “These are all high-paying jobs in a rural economy.”
Wolverine plans to convert the mine from a continuous to a long-wall operation, he said, which would employ between 300 and 400.
When fully up and running that 300 to 400 high paying jobs for American’s.
Why a new coal mine in Utah (and another set to expand) while one’s back east are having financial difficulty?
Yet Asian economies remain hungry for coal, especially coal from Utah, which packs high amounts of energy, but produces less ash and contains smaller amounts of pollution-forming sulfur than most of the world’s coal, Atwood said.
Because world markets like Utah’s cleaner, hotter burning coal.
