In Texas 23,000 men and women are employed by the coal - TopicsExpress



          

In Texas 23,000 men and women are employed by the coal industry. In Texas 102,000 men and women are employed in the renewable energy industry. In the coming days, youll hear hyperbolic rhetoric about enviros killing Texas jobs and harming the Texas miracle economy. This will come from Governor Perry, Greg Abbott, the TCEQ, the Tea Party, Democrats Congressman Pete Gallego, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, U.S. Congressman Henry Cuellar (TX-28), Gene Green, and others about how the EPAs/Obamas proposal to regulate - for the first time ever - carbon pollution is not good stuff. Heres an old story about how the drought killed thousands of cattle in west Texas and led to the closure of a union (United Food and Commerical Workers) Cargill meat processing plant in Plainview, TX. 2,000 people lost their jobs as a result, and the region remains in record drought. Dont buy this crap us about killing jobs. And dont buy the horse shit that we dont care about blue collar workers in the coal industry. Everywhere we organize, we map and analyze prospects for a just transition for these workers and the community tax bases dependent on coal infrastructure. In cases like East Texas, owners of some of those coal plants went so far as to STOP paying property taxes to the county seats they operate in. Whos killin whom? cargill/news/releases/2013/NA3070552.jsp
Posted on: Fri, 30 May 2014 19:43:58 +0000

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