Murray Energy buys Consol River Division

A Consol Energy tugs works the barges moored along the left descending bank across from Point State Park on the last day of November.

A month ago Consol Energy announced that its River Division, including over 20 tugs and 600 barges were purchased by Murray Energy.  The transfer of the River Division was almost an afterthought to selling five local coal mines.

Murray Energy was in the news quite a bit in 2012 as it was instrumental in declaring Obama's "War on Coal".  IT also threatened to lay of workers if Obama won, and waited nary a week before doing so.

Now that Murray Energy is one of the leading commercial users of our Rivers, will it declare Obama's "War on the Rivers" if billions are not budgeted to the Army Corps of Engineers?