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In his keynote address to the 37th Annual West Virginia Mining Symposium, Gov. Joe Manchin said he “delivered the message” about West Virginia coal to President Obama in a White House meeting Wednesday.
Manchin said he told the President that West Virginia coal must be part of the nation’s energy mix for at least the next 30 to 50 years while the nation and the world “transitions to the fuels of the future.”
To push aside coal today would destroy the nation’s economy and its ability to compete against countries like China and India, where the use of coal will continue unabated.
Manchin was one of 10 “coal state” governors who met with Obama to outline their concerns about the direction of the administration’s energy policies as well as recent actions by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency with regard to the mining of coal in the state.
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11:30 a.m. Lunch sponsored by Jackson Kelly
1 – 5 p.m. Health & Safety Session
1 p.m. Federal Mine Safety & Enforcement Program
Kevin Stricklin, Administrator
Mine Safety & Health Administration
Bob E. Cornett – MSHA District 3 Manager
Robert Hardman – MSHA District 4 Manager
2:15 p.m. WV Mine Safety Update
C.A. Phillips, Deputy Director
WV Office of Miner’s Health, Safety & Training
Joel Watts, Board Administrator, WV Board of Coal Mine Health & Safety
3 p.m. Proximity Detection Devices
Jim Dean
WV Mine Safety Task Force
3:30 p.m. Deep-Cut Mining
Gary Hartsog
Alpha Engineering
4 p.m. Coal Safety Legal Forum
Mark Heath, Spilman Thomas & Battle
Dave Hardy, Allen Guthrie McHugh & Thomas
Bob Beatty, Dinsmore & Shohl
1 – 5 p.m. Environmental Session
1 p.m. WV Mining Regulatory Update
Jason Bostic
1:30 p.m. NPDES Update
Allyn Turner
Spilman Thomas & Battle
2 p.m. OSM Oversight Update
Roger Calhoun
Office of Surface Mining
2:30 p.m. Corps of Engineering Permitting Update
Ginger Mullins
Huntington Corps of Engineers
3 p.m. Environmental Justice & Mining
Matt Tyree
Jackson Kelly
3:30 Conductivity Ranges & Responses
Ed Kirk, REIC
Randy Maggard, Argus Energy
5 p.m. Associate’s Welcoming Reception
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4TH
7:00 a.m. REGISTRATION
7:30 a.m. Breakfast sponsored by Dinsmore & Shohl and Logan Corporation
8:30 a.m. Welcome & Introductions
James O. Bunn
WVCA Chairman
8:45 a.m. Central Appalachian Challenges
Joe Craft, President/CEO
Alliance Coal Company
9:30 a.m. The State of the State
Governor Joe Manchin
State of West Virginia
10:15 a.m. Break sponsored by Steptoe & Johnson
10:30 a.m. U. S. Coal Forecast 2010
Hal Quinn, President
National Mining Association
11:15 a.m. American Energy Securities Study
Kenneth Nemeth, Executive Director
Southern States Energy Board
12 noon Mountaineer Guardian Luncheon
Sponsored by Bowles Rice and Marshall Miller Associates
Awards Presentation by WV Office of Miners’ Health, Safety & Training
2 p.m. MSHA 2010
Joe Main, Assistant Secretary
U. S. Mine Safety & Health Administration
2:45 p.m. West Virginia’s Coal Economy
Tom Witt, WVU
Cal Kent, Marshall University
3:30 p.m. Break sponsored by Steptoe & Johnson
3:45 p.m. Coal Advocacy
-- Friends of Coal Ladies Auxiliary
-- FACES
-- Mountain Top Mining Coalition
-- Young West Virginians for Coal
5 p.m. Legislative Reception
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH
7 a.m. Registration
7:30 a.m. Breakfast sponsored by Brickstreet and
Wells Fargo Insurance – Energy & Mining Group
8:30 a.m. Welcome
8:35 a.m. Congressional Activity Relating to Coal
Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito
9:15 a. m. OSM 2010
Joseph Pizarchik, Director
U. S. Office of Surface Mining
9:50 a.m. Renewable Energy –
The Gap Between the Idea and Reality
Dr. Charles Bayless
10:30 a.m. Break sponsored by Steptoe & Johnson
10:45 a.m. Environmental Litigation Update
Bob McLusky
Jackson Kelly, PLLC
11:15 a.m. West Virginia’s Mining & Reclamation Program
Tom Clarke, Director, Division of Mining & Reclamation
WV Department of Environmental Protection
12 noon Reclamation Awards Luncheon
Sponsored by Spilman Thomas & Battle and
Potesta & Associates
Awards Presentation: Randy Huffman, Cabinet Secretary
WV Department of Environmental Protection
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The 2010 Guidebook to West Virginia Taxes has been released as an e-book that is available at no charge to you. The Guidebook is the work of several leading tax practitioners and was edited by Dale W. Steager, Esq.
The Guidebook as well as to other tax related materials can be accessed from a link on the CPA Society's website or at http://www.jimsturgeon.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1969:2010-guidebook-to-wv-taxes.
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INTERNATIONAL RESOURCE PARTNERS LP ANNOUNCES THE ACQUISITION OF MILLER BROS. COAL, LLC
International Resource Partners LP (“IRP”) today announced that it has acquired substantially all of the coal reserves and certain operating assets of Miller Bros. Coal, LLC, the operating subsidiary of Clearwater Natural Resources, LP of Prestonsburg, KY.
Miller Bros. Coal produces steam coal in Floyd, Knott, Breathitt, Johnson and Martin Counties in Eastern Kentucky and controls over 35 million tons of reserves with the ability to produce up to 3 million tons of coal annually from its 5 mining complexes.
With the acquisition of Miller Bros. Coal, IRP controls over 80 million tons of steam and metallurgical coal and has the ability to produce over 5 million tons annually from its surface and underground mines in West Virginia and Kentucky. In addition, IRP’s coal sales and marketing company, Logan & Kanawha, has increased its access to the CSX and Norfolk Southern rail lines and the Big Sandy River.
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