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By Nick Brockman
Register-Herald Reporter
— New digital monitors and programming will bring the history of coal into the modern age at the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine.
The mine and Friends of Coal Ladies’ Auxiliary celebrated the completion of the Friends of Coal Depot during a dedication ceremony Monday afternoon. The additions aim to teach the site’s 50,000 annual visitors about the modern methods of coal mining.
“They will show a program with modern mining, how they mine coal today with the big machinery like the long-wall,” said Renda Morris, director of the mine.
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The 2011 Pennsylvania Bituminous Coal Queen Victoria Buchtan, from Carmichael, Pennylvania has West Virginia ties. Her mom, Vanessa, was the 1983 Pennsylvania Coal Queen. Vanessa works in the West Virginia University Neurosciences Clinic. Victoria comes from a long line of coal miners. Her great grandfather, grandfather were miners and her other grandfather made longwall equipment. Victoria is a senior at Carmichael High School in Carmichael, PA.
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Hickam will be returning to his home town and will appear with some of the coal miners who appeared in Spike’s “Coal” series earlier this year.
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U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) has announced that the House will be advancing a jobs agenda this fall. As part of the House Republican effort to protect and create American jobs, Cantor said in a memo that Rep. David McKinley’s (WV) jobs legislation on coal ash, H.R. 2273, will hit the floor this coming October or November. “These anti-infrastructure regulations, commonly referred to as the ‘coal ash’ rules, will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, affecting everything from concrete production to building products like wall board,” Cantor’s memo states. “The result is an estimated loss of well over 100,000 jobs. H.R. 2273, the Coals Residuals Reuse and Management Act, would create an enforceable minimum standard for the regulation of coal ash by the states, allowing their use in a safe manner that protects jobs.”
In a response letter to Speaker of the House John Boehner, President Obama acknowledged that his EPA’s proposal to regulate coal ash as a hazardous material is one of the seven most costly regulations his entire administration has proposed. According to a June 2011 Veritas economic report the President’s estimate that the coal ash rule would cost the economy up to $1.5 billion annually is grossly underestimated. The report stated that the EPA’s hazardous designation would cost up to $110 billion over 20 years with estimated job losses ranging from 184,000 to 316,000.
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