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Name: Anonymous on Oct 28, 2007Comments: Our coal mines are reasonably safe. Let's get Tower and parts of Crandall up and going and the laid off miners working again. We don't need more regulations. We just to enforce the one's already on the books.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Oct 28, 2007Comments: No need for MSHA to regulate and citation (just to citation) all of Murray's mines out of existance. If Murray's mines go, it is likely the rest of the mines the region are next, union and non union. Keep Carbon and Emery Counties alive by keeping our coal mines open.Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Oct 28, 2007Comments: Get Tower open. Hands off Westridge and our other minesFlag
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Name: Daniel Jones on Oct 28, 2007Comments: These coal mines are safe. I work in one. The politicians are using our mines and tragedies as political toys. MSHA is now holding up the opening of Tower to save their own butts. They don't care that our miners need to put food on their families tables. Enforce the regulations on the books and leave our mines alone. Stop approving mining plans that any first year miner will tell you is bad. Let us all just get on with our lives as we were.Flag
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Name: Megan Jones on Oct 28, 2007Comments: My husband says the mines are safe and he should know. He works in one. Let's get them open. MSHA should do its job better not close down our minesFlag
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Name: Robby Nelson on Oct 28, 2007Comments: If the politicians truly want to make coal mining safer in Utah they should stop buddying up with the SUWA and Sierra Club to shut us out of the places where the coal is easier to get at and safer to mine. Coal accounts for 52% of the energy in this country. Now lets us mine it under the safest conditions possible. Over regulating and citationing existing mines is just a political game. It better protects no body. It just unemploys them. Open such places as Lila and the Grandstaircase Escalante or just leave us alone to do our jobs in peace.Flag
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Name: Kelly Wilson on Nov 1, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Richard Vose on Nov 2, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Karma Christopherson on Nov 2, 2007Comments: Let's get all our mines running again . Let's also open up the places where are miners can work under less cover and get the coal out more safely.Flag
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Name: A. Papas on Nov 3, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Kerry McCourt on Nov 4, 2007Comments: All the paranoia, political opportunism, muck-racking journalism, and "paper-trail" gathering by MSHA needs to stop. Me and my family believe our mines are safe and that it is time to get people back to work again. This community has been through enough. If our mines were unsafe, our miners would be the first to speak up. We do not need grieving family members, money hungry lawyers, the political opportunist UMWA (notorious for selling Utah miners out) nor ignorant politicians determining the fate of Emery and Carbon countiesFlag
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Name: Janet Leamaster on Nov 5, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Del B. Leamaster on Nov 5, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Miquel Verde on Nov 5, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Stacy Gallegos on Nov 6, 2007Comments: We've had meeting after meeting with the governors commission. Again and again our political leaders have been told that the people of Emery and Carbon believe our mines to be reasonably life and our wish is to get those which are shut down running again. It's time that the politicians and MSHA listen to us and start cooperating with Robert Murray and his supervisors in getting Tower open and our miners re-employed. Christmas is around the corner. Stop playing political games with our livelihoodsFlag
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Name: Jean Vose on Nov 6, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Jean Vose on Nov 6, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: O. Allende on Nov 7, 2007Comments: What happened at Crandall is a sad thing, but the politicians and MSHA are overreacting. The voices of Emery and Carbon residents need to be respected and all the laid-off coal miners need to be able to go back to work immediately.Flag
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Name: Dustin Sitterud on Nov 8, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Paula Johnson on Nov 8, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Jeremy Cox on Nov 9, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Donny Weaver on Nov 12, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Nov 26, 2007Comments: I agree that the view points of people from Emery and Carbon counties need to be taken more seriously. It is frustrating that decisions are being made that will effect our livlihoods and the future of the Castle Valley, but the things many of us have said in letters and in front of the commission (and have been generally in agreement about,) are not being taken seriously by many politicians. Crandall happened because of a bad mining plan and geological forces that no one could have foreseen. Why are politicians trying to legislate regulations that have nothing to do with what happened at Crandall Why are some pushing regulations that are against the wishes of most of this community Overregulation does not help the people of Emery and Carbon. It only promotes the anti-coal agendas held by many politicians who now have the power to turn a tragedy into a sucker punch at the coal industryFlag
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Name: Anonymous on Nov 27, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Becca Anderson on Nov 29, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Dec 10, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: April Sitterud Bingham on Dec 10, 2007Comments: None of my immediate family members currently work in the mines, but extended family members do or have. The miners themselves are the ones best suited to determine if the mines are safe. Ande should they choose to make coal mining their livelihood, they should be able to do so without the goverment agencies making that decision for them. I grew up in Emery County and will always consider it home. I would hate to see it become a ghost town because a good majority of its residents were forced to leave to find work elsewhere.Flag
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Name: KATHLEEN SHANTZ on Dec 12, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Kristeen Johnson on Dec 13, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Debbie Tricca on Dec 13, 2007Comments: I am aware that various coal miners have spoken out in public meetings and in front of the commission. Political leaders need to listen to these voices telling them that they want to go back to work and that they do not need an overhall of mining legislation. Nobody knows more about mining or cares more about safety than the miners themselves. Listen to them.Flag
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Name: James on Dec 15, 2007Comments: We've been through enough. Keep the politics out of it and let us get back to doing our jobsFlag
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Name: Anonymous on Dec 15, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: James Pendleton on Dec 16, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Mark Gymon on Dec 17, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Dec 20, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Conspec on Dec 22, 2007Comments: Last year I worked at Crandall as conspec before Utah American Energy bought it. I am a women and have my underground papers, and have been underground at all three of the mines owned by Utah American Energy. I felt safe under, and if I would have been hired to work underground I would have no questions about safety in any one of those mines at all . I now currently work for Utah American Energy and stand behind the dedication the company has to Safety 100%!Flag
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Name: Nico Chavez on Dec 31, 2007Comments:Flag
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Name: Camille Phillips on Feb 28, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Anonymous on Mar 6, 2008Comments:Flag
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Name: Pam Williams on May 13, 2008Comments:Flag
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