FYI: Neither Arch coal nor any of the larger mining corporations are involved in the natural gas industry listed as a "mining operation". The reason for the uptick in job openings is entirely due to the fact this administration is pulling the teeth of the runaway EPA and its non-represented laws that have never seen and up or down vote in congress.
Yep...there's a great deal of "fracking" going on in the mining industry. LMAO. There are several methods of mining COAL, and fracking has nothing to do with the mining of coal. There is the underground deep mines using drift, slope or shaft methods, the Surface Mine coal mine where there are several types thereof....mountain top, contour, or highwall mining.
Fracking is used in the natural gas industry. Its true one of the greatest safety risks involved with deep mining is the concentration of natural gas called "methane" which is odorless and colorless, and tasteless....but...that has nothing to do with the natural gas industry which drills into the surface in a vertical fashion and uses water under pressure (Fracking) to help locate and free the pockets of natural gas, and overcome the tensile strength of the compressed rock strata, using sand or other natural substances to keep the cracks open long enough to extract the gas....the gas once located and withdrawn is then introduced to a chemical agent especially designed to give ODOR to the natural gas. (the smell of rotten eggs that one gets when gas is tapped into and opened in the home) for safety reasons.
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