Amid coal's decline, mines in the nation's top producing region weren't believed at big risk. But shutdowns, bankruptcies and job losses are now rocking the towns reliant on the industry.
In this Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019 photo shows the entrance to the Blue Ayr Mine south of Gillett, Wyo. The shutdown of Blackjewel LLC's Belle Ayr and Eagle Butte mines in Wyoming since July 1,2019, has added yet more uncertainty to the Powder River Basin's struggling coal economy.
What happened instead has shaken the top coal-producing region in the United States like a charge of mining explosive. Blackjewel furloughed most of its Wyoming employees and shut down Eagle Butte and Belle Ayr mines, the first idled by hardship since coal mining in the Powder River Basin exploded in the 1970s.
Worden said she felt little reassurance. On a break at a part-time electrical contracting job in North Dakota, she wondered if she should accept any offer of full-time work or hold out for her old job. For now, little appears changed in Gillette, a city of 30,000 people at the heart of the basin of rolling grasslands midway between the Black Hills and snowcapped Bighorn Mountains. Tattoo shops are abundant, and big, late-model pickup trucks still cruise the main drag.
He has four children, ages 11 to 16, and his wife’s job at the Ruby Tuesday’s restaurant in Gillette is their main income while they await news about the mines. He questions the outlook from Godby of the Center for Energy Economics and Public Policy that some mines must close.
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