TransAlta President of U.S. Operations Doug Jackson, coal miner-turned-Centralia College student Vic McKee and Bev Gestrine, head of Centralia College's Worker Retraining, reflect on developments a year after TransAlta closed its Big Hanaford Valley coal mine and laid off more than 600 employees. Video includes Chronicle file photographs from 2004-2005.

Video by Nick George, The Chronicle