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The West Virginia Coal Forum was established to promote the viability of the state's coal industry through facilitating public discussion of such coal related issues as the level of competitiveness and productivity of the industry, the image of the industry, miner's health and safety issues, and, identifying new markets and uses for West Virginia coal. The Coal Forum is organized under the West Virginia Mine Safety & Technical Review Committee (TRC). Membership of the Coal Forum is comprised of coal operating personnel, miner's representatives, coal vendors and legislative leaders.
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Coal Industry and UMW Warn EPA Rules Will Cost |
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August, 19 2011 |
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Charleston , Kanawha County , West Virginia
The EPA has announced tougher standards for coal fired plants that produce 46 percent of U.S. electricity and emissions that can impact public health and possibly climate. The coal industry says the changes are coming too fast and will effectively end the building of coal-fired power plants.
The potential state impact of the new rules was the topic of this year's West Virginia Coal Forum in Charleston. The coal industry has its own word war of words going with the EPA over mine permitting, but their latest concern is that the tougher power plant emission rules will kill the domestic steam coal market.
Union miners are worried too. UMW President Cecil Roberts said: " Let's talk about using a little bit of common sense here, folks! And we're not talking about just ignoring the environment. We (the UMW) certainly wouldn't be for that. We're talking about let's use a little common sense approach to this to keep people working and deal with the environment. "
Speakers also said the changes will dramatically raise the cost of electricity for homes and businesses. The EPA did not get a turn at the podium. See Video here: http://www.wchstv.com/newsroom/eyewitness/110810_6164.shtml
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Joel L. Watts
Administrator
Chris Hamilton
Co-Chair
Fred Tucker
Co-Chair   Amid soaring fuel prices and energy crunches in various parts of the country, we'd like to take this opportunity to thank an old friend and applaud West Virginia's readily available and abundant energy source - Coal! While many states who rely on natural gas, nuclear, oil and other base fuels for electric generation are facing extremely high bills this winter, West Virginia enjoys some of the lowest electric costs in the nation thanks to coal. West Virginian's should be thankful that we have an inexpensive and dependable energy source to power our lives. Coal, it works for West Virginia |
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