I've started to notice that there's a repeating pattern occurring whereby communities have had coal or other energy-related industries move in, provide jobs and a basis for an economy, devastate the mined land by blasting the tops off mountains and basically ruining it for use for anything else for decades, underpay and harm the health of their employees (including killing them); then, when the coal is depleted, the coal company pulls out of dodge leaving an economically devastated community behind that has had the rug pulled out from under it. The ensuing lack of jobs causes the economy of these communities …
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