Who owns coal river mountain

Coal production for Central Appalachia for quarters was about 36 million tons, and for Raleigh County was about 4. The production figures above are estimates based on projecting quarter 4 to be similar to, or slightly up from quarters 2 and 3. Like this content? Sign up for our Voice emails. Your email address will not be published. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Meet the Voice team Archives Subscribe.

Spring Hiking the Highlands. Appalachian Voices. Issue — Winter. WV Dept. This time it's the 2-square-mile Bee Tree site, inactive since If Bee Tree sounds familiar, it could be because this was the site where some of our friends sat in trees in January and August , including a day occupation. In addition to the carcinogenic blasting dust that this operation will send into its neighbors' lungs, it presents the added threat of blasting next to the Brushy Fork sludge dam.

You can also call in to the conference at Phone number: , Phone Conference ID : Claypool wv. Be sure to state that you object to renewal of Permit Number S Holding over 7 billion gallons of toxic black coal preparation waste, Brushy Fork sits over abandoned underground mines.

It was designed, built, and operated by Massey Energy, whose Martin County, KY, sludge dam burst through into abandoned underground mines in and again in That disaster released over million gallons of black goo into tributaries of the Tug Fork and Big Sandy, affecting the water supplies for over 20, people and leaving a mess that will never be fully cleaned up. Massey also assured their miners that the Upper Big Branch mine was safe before it exploded and killed 29 miners in , but that's another disaster.

They are allowed to store billions of gallons of waste. Can you imagine what would happen if one of those impoundment dams failed? Unfortunately, there are those that have had to. The Buffalo Creek coal impoundment dam in West Virginia broke in , killing people. In , it happened again, when a million-gallon slurry pond collapsed in Martin County, Ky. Coal River Mountain Watch CRMW came together in in response to the fear and frustration of people living near or downstream from huge mountaintop removal sites.

Their goal is to educate and mobilize citizens who themselves will determine how their resources are used and who they will benefit. From our humble beginnings, we have become a major force in opposition to mountaintop removal.