You have to have a globally competitive mining dispensation.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You have to recognize what the markets are doing, what the rules and regulations are doing, and all the more reasons that we've got to find some more solutions in particular with coal.
It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.
I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.
The problem is you cannot have free global trade with highly restrictive, regulated domestic markets.
As a continent, I think there are opportunities for Asia to accept imports of Wyoming coal.
To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules.
We don't want to leave the coal in the ground, and that necessarily is going to involve better technology with regard to clean uses of coal.
We can sit between active drilling operations in neighboring countries, complaining that it's too risky to develop our own resources while the world around us does exactly that.
If you want improvements in coal, you've got to keep people in the business.
I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.