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Originally Posted by TampaToker
Which lines of the bill do you disagree with?
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There is no bill - it is a resolution which takes away a bill.
The bill itself removed 124 full time employee positions and replaced it with 280 new full time jobs for a net gain of 156 new jobs in the coal industry over 20 years. So the overall effect of killing the bill was a loss of new jobs.
The side effects are a loss of approximately 285 miles of fishing and hunting streams which ought to please the outdoorsman types in those areas.
The original bill was just a modification of an older bill that is going to stay in effect from the 1970s.
This is all just a show between Obama and Trump that really does nothing. The newer bill that congress approved in December (if you care about politics - a Republican congress) just updated the older bill to add changes in technology and add a few jobs.
It's not about mining - it's about the cleanup and restoration after mining.
The killing of the bill really has no effect on the coal industry either positively or negatively...it's all slight of hand between politicians
And for those of you that don't know what's really going on in the energy industries - you might educate yourselves before you come here and make yourselves look stupid
And for those worried about the environment - this bill really had no effect on any of that - it was going to save a few miles of streams from tailings waste and just give the coal miners downstream a little better chance of not getting health problems as quickly - and they certainly don't matter in the grand scheme of things as they are going to lose their jobs anyway so they might as well die quicker
