I don’t understand why China and the rest of Asia are not able to supply their own coal. As a top producer, China must have large quantities of coal. Maybe they want us to do the dirty work, and coal is a dirty business from beginning to end.
I lived in Bowman, N.D., as a child. It was and is a coal-producing area. Coal cars were a common sight in the state of North Dakota. The poor people would take a bucket and pick up chunks of coal that fell off the trains. We burned coal in our cook stove. It gave off wonderful heat, which was needed when the thermometer fell to 30 degrees below zero.
The mining of coal cost many miners their health and lives. New ways of mining coal are used today and it is much better but I don’t know how much better. That’s why we need the scientists and experts to be willing to share everything they know about coal.
Ann U. Harris
Vancouver
