Peabody Energy

So, uh, we, uh, um...

So anyway, he would take us and, uh, out to the, me and his friends, uh, in the Hopi land, and it was just, it was before Peabody Coal came and started strip mining, um, you know, Black Mesa.

We watched them pour the original concrete for Glen Canyon Dam, and we went through the area that was now mostly flooded by Lake Powell.

It seems like it's reemerging with the drought, but, um-

And here's some more.

This is Financial Post Glencore and Peabody Energy and are weighing deals with the Trump administration to produce coal in Venezuela.

So again, a lot of people, these are Canadian companies taking a look and saying, oh, hey, maybe we can do coal there.

Venezuela was like a resource It is a resource-rich nation.

This was actually a company called Kennecott.

It's a copper mining company that in the late 70s was forced to divest itself of a subsidiary called Peabody Coal.

Because of antitrust laws, they said, for whatever reason, you can't own a coal mining company.

So this was a company that had to sell off its coal mining subsidiary, and it got $600 million in cash in return for the sale.

Yeah, this recent announcement, it is when you look at a dependence on that market still being there five years down the road, 10 years down the road.

Peabody Energy, Union Pacific, and the Mexican rail partner Ferromex now have a deal in place to get coal eventually shipped to a port in the Gulf of America and then out to Taiwan.

That's good news.

We export coal to half the nation, like 26 states.

And, um, then when I moved to, uh, my next house, then I started building the, uh, [laughs] St. Louis District on the IC, and I had the staging yard and a little bit of the part of the bench work built there.

That was when at that time I was working, uh, Peabody Coal Company.

I was an underground, uh, electrician.

And while I was doing that, we got that all in, and then I sold that house.

... be, just speak up and say, "No, I'm, I'm gonna pass on that one."

Well, I knew I was gonna have to have a kidney transplant sometime.

I had been diagnosed when I took my physical for Peabody Coal Company.

I had, um, what they called, um...

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Well, since we're talking about the influence money might have on climate change opinion, it turns out Representative Bucshon's three biggest campaign donors are Murray Energy, Koch Enterprises, and Peabody Energy.

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And trust me, trust me, those three well-funded companies would love to disprove climate change to the satisfaction of the scientific community at large.

It's a copper mining company.

It acquired a subsidiary called Peabody Coal, coal mining subsidiary.

In the 1970s, antitrust laws were very strictly enforced.

So Kennecott was forced to divest itself of its coal mining subsidiary.