“White House Press Release: President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order reinvigorating America’s beautiful clean coal industry. April 2025”
So - is it time for Shell to buy up all those divested coal pits and mines that Shell Mining Company (US) once owned, e.g. R&F Coal Company? Most of the legacy Black Lung liability cases are probably settled or deceased. China’s all in so - Is Big Beautiful Clean Coal back like DJT champions?
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This is like a fantasy manga, there is a new skill achieved. American energy dominance, you have the ability to spend billions only to stop just before the finish line to actually do something.
Remember the fight to drill the Chukchi Sea... $7billion to walk away
Remember the campaign to do in-situ conversion of oil shales and heavy oil $9billion and walk away
Remember over the last three years they spent ~ $49billion on share buy back to cancel them and the share price did nothing
This is another great way to spend money to do nothing
Good US export product to Europe where the fools banked on windmills and solar farms.
Just what we need, more air particulates. But then with the wholesale scuttling of EPA requirements this might be a great investment opportunity, Shell.
No doubt it won’t take long or much investment to get those West Virginia coal plants that have been sitting and rusting for decades up and running.
As he’s said “ jobs will bo-m!”. What another great idea. FID here we come.
coal employs 45,000 people nationwide of which only 12,000 are miners
anyone talking about coal jobs and coal as a relevant fuel is mentally decades out of date
please update your mental model and get with the times if you find appealing to coal to be a good political stance. it’s dead jim.
So the Casino Genius is now a Coal Genius? Buyer Beware!