Would you like to see the West Virginia coal mines shut down?

[Yurovsky]

2. Yes BUT....

You can't board up a major employer of thousands of Americans - essentially by government edict - without implementing a detailed, robust, well-funded program to employ those workers in other occupations at similar wages. That would include education & training, possible construction of facilities/infrastructure etc. IMO, it wouldn't have to be isolated to only clean energy projects, but the goal should be 100% re-employment of affected workers. That may not be possible, but certainly it should be the goal.

My problem is the initial comments re: shutting down WV coal opeartions was just sort of tossed out there to garner some cheap support with green voters. No consideration was given to the people who would lose their jobs or even how to moderate the probable increase in utility costs to moderate & low income customers.