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Metinvest broke ground on a new project August 3 near Ellamore, in Randolph County. Roaring Creek Coal Company, LLC will start operations during January 2013 and will add another 1.6 million tons of high quality coking coal to Metinvest’s capacity. Once completed, the mine complex will produce 1.6 million tons of high quality metallurgical coal per year, create 258 high paying jobs, and generate more than $11 million in severance and excise tax revenue annually.
The project is a $150 million investment in the economy of northeast West Virginia by Metinvest and United Coal Company.
“We are very pleased that this groundbreaking has occurred less than one month following the grand opening of our Affinity Mine,” states Michael Zervos, President of United Coal Company - Metinvest’s overseas coal subsidiary. “These projects are the foundation of Metinvest’s growth strategy for UCC- by 2014 our operations will produce more than eight million tons of processed coal per year, of which approximately 85 percent will be high quality metallurgical coal. Nearly five million tons will be produced annually in West Virginia.”
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Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin has vetoed the Redistricting Plan passed by the Legislature after it was determined the bill contained several technical errors. Gov. Tomblin has called a special session to correct the legislation starting Thursday, August, 18.
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Mingo County residents received an early preview of the new $37 million Mingo Central High School during a ribbon cutting ceremony August 12.
The school, will serve more than 800 students. Following the ceremony featuring several state and local leaders, student ambassadors provided tours of the state-of-the-art classrooms. The rooms feature smart boards, computer and science labs, and even art facilities.
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The West Virginia Coal Forum hosted a meeting August 10 in Charleston to bring attention and show support for HR 2018, a bill that would bring an end to the EPA’s war against Appalachian coal.
Speakers representing labor, industry, government and others shared their concerns about the EPA’s current anti-coal agenda, including an on-going de facto moratorium of new mining permits in West Virginia, as well as new air quality rules that threaten tens of thousands of jobs in the region.
Several speakers during Wednesday’s event urged the passage of a bill, which would put controls on the Environmental Protection Agency.
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