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Friday, 01/11/2008 |
ICG Eastern Incorporated’s Birch River Complex Takes Top Honor
Eighteen West Virginia mining operations were recognized for stellar
reclamation efforts in 2007 during the West Virginia Coal Association’s
35th Annual Mining Symposium on Friday. Coal Association President
Bill Raney made the announcement.
“Our companies strive to be good stewards of the land.” Raney stated.
“The Reclamation Award winners are fantastic examples of that
stewardship and they are all to be commended.”
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Friday, 01/11/2008 |
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Twenty-seven West Virginia mining operations were
recognized for stellar safety achievements in 2007 during the West
Virginia Coal Association’s 35th Annual Mining Symposium on Thursday. Coal Association President Bill Raney made the announcement.
“I can’t tell you how proud we are of these organizations’ achievements in calendar year 2007,” Raney stated. “They are truly setting the mark for our nation’s coal mining industry.”
Raney said Consol’s Robinson Run Mine in Harrison County was honored
with the “2007 Barton B. Lay, Jr. Milestones of Safety Award”, which is
bestowed upon the industry’s safest operation each year.
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Wednesday, 01/02/2008 |
State and national leaders, energy experts to address the group
State and national leaders, including West Virginia Governor Joe
Manchin and Senator Jay Rockefeller, along with energy industry experts
and regulators, will address representatives from the state’s coal
industry during the 35th annual West Virginia Coal Association Mining
Symposium to be held Wednesday, January 9 – Friday, January 11 at the
Charleston House Holiday Inn in Charleston, WV.
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Tuesday, 10/23/2007 |
Representatives of the West Virginia Coal Association will testify
Wednesday evening in favor of proposed revisions to the federal Stream
Buffer Zone regulations.
The rule changes are proposed by the federal Office of Surface Mining,
which will conduct a public hearing on the subject, Wednesday, October
24, beginning at 6:00 p.m. at the Charleston House Holiday Inn in
Charleston.
WVCA President Bill Raney will testify in support of the rule change,
along with others from the Association’s staff and membership
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Monday, 08/27/2007 |
J. Brett Harvey, President and Chief
Executive Office of CONSOL Energy Inc., the nation’s largest
underground coal mining company, called on the coal industry to abandon
its incremental approach to mine safety improvement and drive accident
rates to zero at every mine in the nation.
“We need to change the paradigm and we need to change it now,” Harvey
said in a speech today before the Utah Mining Association annual
meeting in Park City, Utah.
(**Note: Brett Harvey’s speech may be viewed in its entirety by
logging on to www.consolenergy.com and clicking on “About CONSOL” and
then click on “Speeches”)
“What industry must change is our incremental approach to safety
improvement because it creates an unintended tolerance to accidents.
We need to get to zero!”
Harvey said that improving safety in incremental steps, while
successful in reducing accidents, did not eliminate them. “Incremental
improvement still means people are getting hurt,” he explained. “If we
accept this approach, we had better be prepared to ask for the
volunteers who want to get injured this year.”
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