Friday, April 07, 2006
MTR: Fact of the Day #1
West Virginia mining, at its peak, employed nearly 150,000 workers…
...it now employs just 15,000 - a drop of 90%. This is largely due to the automation of labor on MTR sites. Coal production remains roughly the same.
Get the Facts on Mountaintop Removal
Photo by Vivian Stockman, http://www.ohvec.org
