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ICG was recently acquired by Arch Coal. By Andrea Lannom A former senior vice president, secretary and general counsel at International Coal Group, has decided to rejoin Jackson Kelly, the firm announced July 5 in a news release.
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Two years ago, U.N. researchers were claiming that it would cost “as much as $600 billion a year over the next decade” to go green. Now, a new U.N. report has more than tripled that number to $1.9 trillion per year for 40 years.
So let's do the math: That works out to a grand total of $76 trillion, over 40 years -- or more than five times the entire Gross Domestic Product of the United States ($14.66 trillion a year). It’s all part of a “technological overhaul” “on the scale of the first industrial revolution” called for in the annual report. Except that the U.N. will apparently control this next industrial revolution.
The new 251-page report with the benign sounding name of the “World Economic and Social Survey 2011” is rife with goodies calling for “a radically new economic strategy” and “global governance.”
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8th Annual Friends of Coal Auto Fair
July 15-17
Paul Cline Memorial Youth Sports Complex, Beckley, WV
Showground Hours
Friday, July 15th: 10am to 11pm
Saturday, July 16th: 8am to 11pm
Sunday, July 17th: 8am to 3pm
Showground Admission is $2 Friday and Saturday, Children 12 & Under get in FREE!
Admission is FREE to the public all day Sunday!
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Ft. Wayne News Sentinel
President Obama has embarked on a campaign to destroy the coal industry.
Working through the US Environmental Protection Agency, Obama has: ♦In defiance of Congress, planned a cap-and-trade initiative to make it prohibitively expensive for utilities.
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