CSPAN3 June 22, 2012
disbanded. they shut down and we lost jobs and 12 million dollars in direct payroll. if you do the other jobs that support the coal industry and probably $100 million in the coal area and it was about $400,000 a quarter. i had to start cutting the budget and tighten things up because we got down to 72,000 in one quarter. now, when 20% of the budget is driving coal tax in an energy-producing county it's pretty, pretty tough. so during the years, now we're in almost the 14th year we're still not mining coal. there are still 230 jobs today in question that would be mining the surface mi...
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