Corsa Coal Announces Executive Transition
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FRIEDENS, Pa., June 9, 2021 /CNW/ - Corsa Coal Corp. (TSXV: CSO) (OTCQX: CRSXF) ( Corsa or the Company ), announced today that Peter V. Merritts, as part of his future retirement planning process, has elected to step down as Chief Executive Officer ( CEO ) of the Company and a member of the Board of Directors and be appointed Chief Operating Officer ( COO ) effective June 9, 2021. Mr. Merritts decision is not the result of any dispute or disagreement with the Company or any matter related to the Company s operations, policies, management, or board of directors, but strictly a decision to provide the best opportunity for succession planning of the CEO position and Mr. Merritts future retirement plans.
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again, chris, you said it perfectly. it s a travesty. that s exactly how i believe and feel very strongly about this. these are some of the salt of the earth, the best people you ve ever been around in your life. the coal miners, coal miners family, what they have sacrificed and given to this country. these are people s lives we re dealing with, chris. we re not dealing with corporate liabilities. they re real people s lives and they have given their all. they were promised, they negotiated in good faith a contract. and they negotiated with the wages, it was a give and take proposition, with the promise that their benefits would be there for them when they retired. and you said it best. basically you have the parent corporation, which was peabody, spun off patriot in 2007. they spun off with very little assets an awful lot of liabilities designed to fail. if that can be proven, that can t happen in america. we can t let that happen and
these are some of the salt of the earth, the best people you ve ever been around in your life. the coal miners, coal miners family, what they have sacrificed and given to this country. these are people s lives we re dealing with, chris. we re not dealing with corporate liabilities. they re real people s lives and they have given their all. they were promised, they negotiated in good faith a contract. and they negotiated with the wages, it was a give and take proposition, with the promise that their benefits would be there for them when they retired. and you said it best. basically you have the parent corporation, which was peabody, spun off patriot in 2007. they spun off with very little assets an awful lot of liabilities designed to fail. if that can be proven, that can t happen in america. we can t let that happen and we re going to have to look and reopen these bankruptcy laws in order to make them take care of that inequity right now. this is wrong. and we ve been talking about th
created by the larger peabody energy in 2007. patriot was spun off from peabody, taking a whole lot of peabody s liabilities but only a smidgeon of its assets. the move was best summarized by temple university professor bruce raider in a paper called designed to fail, the case of patriot coal. he said patriot coal was created just to go bankrupt. at the time, peabody s cfo happily announced, hey look, our health care liability and related expenses will be reduced by 40%. in total, our legacy liabilities, expenses and cash flow will nearly be cut in half. we now know at whose expense that comes. joining me tonight, senator joe manchin, democrat from west virginia. senator, thank you for joining us. you had strong words about this yesterday. what is your reaction to the judge s ruling on this? again, chris, you said it perfectly. it s a travesty. that s exactly how i believe and feel very strongly about this.