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WorkForce West Virginia now offers online filing of quarterly unemployment compensation wage and contributions reports and payment of contributions via electronic check.
This user-friendly web application will save time and simplify the reporting process. The main features of the system are:
- Employees are saved from report to report! You must only add/delete if necessary and update wages;
- Contribution due can be paid easily with a bank account;
- Safe and secure handling is provided for employee and payment information;
- If inactive, request account activation online;
- Submit changes to account information online; and
- Filing online means no forms to print or mail, no checks to write, and no stamps to buy!
NOTE: For filings that result in a contribution due, a $5.00 processing fee will be assessed. The fee is collected by West Virginia Interactive, in partnership with WV.gov, the state’s official web portal, and used to create, maintain, and expand eGovernment services in West Virginia.
You can find more information and a brief video on the service on our web site: http:// HYPERLINK "https://ch1prd0610.outlook.
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REGISTRATION DEADLINES
If you plan to vote in May’s primary election, April 17, next Tuesday, is the last day to register to vote at your county clerk’s office. It is also the last day to mail a voter registration application or to register at one of the state’s voter registration offices. April 17th is also the last day to file a change of political party for the primary or to register to vote after moving to a new county within the state.
For more information about these and other deadlines, check out the West Virginia Secretary of State’s Election webpage at http://www.sos.wv.gov/
Most of all … exercise your rights and VOTE!
EARLY VOTING SCHEDULE
Early voting for the May 8th primary election begins April 25th and concludes May 5. For more information contact your County Clerk’s office or the West Virginia Secretary of State’s office.
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The West Virginia Coal Association will be taking part in a panel discussion at this year’s Nemacolin Energy Institute National Coal Conference April 24-25 in Farmington, PA. The event will be held at the Nemacolin Woodlands Resort and will feature speakers from ACCCE, the NMA and CONSOL Energy.
WVCA President Bill Raney will represent the Association in a panel discussion along with Bill Bissett, president of the Kentucky Coal Association; Mike Carey, president of the Ohio Coal Association and George Ellis, president of the Pennsylvania Coal Association.
For more information or to register, visit the event website at www.nationalcoalconference.com
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Lawyers for Arch Coal moved things a step closer to possibly having that lawsuit be decided. In their filing, Arch’s lawyers have asked Judge Chambers to lift his stay on the proceedings and make a decision on the company’s longstanding motion for summary judgment.
In their filing, Arch attorney’s indirectly referenced U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s recent decision on the EPA’s actions related to the permit.
“USEPA participated in a lengthy permit review process that took the better part of a decade. It did not object when the Corps issued the permit in January 2007,” Arch states. “It did not object when Mingo Logan started to mine. It has not gathered or requested any information from Mingo Logan to determine whether any impacts have resulted from over three years of mining that have already occurred under the Spruce No. 1 Permit. It has never rebutted the Corps’ determination that Mingo Logan’s operations have been conducted in compliance with the Section 404 permit. Its belated political decision to exercise its Section 404(c) authority has been rejected as untimely and illegal. There simply is no reason to deny Mingo Logan the right to a resolution of its outstanding motion for summary judgment.”
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The West Virginia Coal Association has joined an alliance of state coal, manufacturing and energy associations, as well as state chambers of commerce in petitioning for a judicial review of recent actions by the EPA related to mercury standards at steam electrical generation facilities. The petition challenges the rule filed by the EPA on February 16.
This rule sets a standard that is impossible to meet by new coal-fired power plants and it will force the short-term shutdown of many of the existing coal-fired generation facilities,
The WVCA, the Kentucky Coal Association, the Pennsylvania Coal Association, the Virginia Coal Association and the Indiana Coal Council are joined by the West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina and Virginia chambers of commerce as well as several other industry organizations in filing the petition for a judicial review of the final action of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) under the Clean Air Act entitled “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants from Coal-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units and Standards of Performance for Fossil-Fuel-Fired Electric Utility, Industrial-Commercial-
The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. A decision is expected sometime in late-2012 or early 2013.
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The “Perfect Storm” continues to pound the coal industry here in West Virginia and across the country. The anti-coal policies of the Obama Administration and the EPA along with the lingering impacts of a worldwide economic downturn and a mild winter continue to push U.S. coal production lower, while West Virginia production resumes its decline.
According to NMA, coal production is off nationally by 1.4 percent year-over-year for the 52 weeks ending April 7. In West Virginia, production decline by 3.3 percent for the same period – with state mines producing 131.4 million tons compared to 135.8 million tons a year ago.
Railcar loadings are off 16 percent measured year-over-year. Meanwhile, electric production is off 1.9 percent across the country for the same period. Raw steel production in the U.S. continues to trend upward slightly, up approximately 6.7 percent year-to-date.
Exports of met coal are up 16.7 percent year-to-date from this time last year, however exports of steam coal remain down 9.3 percent year-to-date for the same period. As an antithesis of what’s happening here, Reports from India indicate that their coal-fired electric generation plants have less than four-days of supply on the ground, with many having no reserve stockpiles at all.
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When the EPA published their new GHG rules they claimed they would be subject to review before implementation, but this was a ruse. It is now obvious that the new rules go into effect as soon as they are published in the federal register and the damage done by these rules may be felt much sooner than even previously thought.
“This EPA is apparently willing to conceal the truth, to fabricate fact, if it serves their goals. They continue to claim these GHG standards are not final but it is now clear that they consider them final upon publication and they are moving forward to implementation. The damage is already being felt. Have you looked at your electric bill recently? Unfortunately, the EPA continues to ignore the real impact their rules will have on American families and businesses by driving up energy prices and destroying jobs.”
EPA regulations are responsible for the announced closure of more than 140 electricity generating units in 19 states.
“How can this not impact the grid?” Raney said. “This threat isn’t one, two or 10 years in the future. This threat is now. It is here. They are imposing their agenda by regulation when they couldn’t get it passed by legislation.”
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FACES of Coal and the West Virginia Coal Association joined to host Senator Joe Manchin, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and other state and local political and business leaders for a roundtable discussion about the Obama Administration’s “War on Coal” and the EPA’s multiple front assault through air rules and the uncertainty of the NPDES situation.
The discussion took place at Walker Machinery in Belle. The group discussed the specifics of the EPA’s rules, policies and efforts to kill Appalachian coal both, mining and burning. Follow-up strategies are being developed.
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Fluid bed coal gasification - Gulf Oil Corporation
As we've previously reported and commented, there exists in the technical literature, especially in the records of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, an immense body of demonstrated knowledge clearly establishing the fact that Coal, and just about any other Carbon-based substance, including all sorts of Carbon Dioxide-recycling organic or botanical materials, and even Carbon Dioxide itself, can be transformed into what is known as synthesis gas, more simply just "syngas", a blend of Carbon Monoxide and Hydrogen, which can then be transformed through a variety of well-known and, within the petroleum industry, widely-used catalytic reaction processes into both liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons,
That knowledge base concerning the catalytic transformation of Carbon Monoxide with Hydrogen, and even of Carbon Dioxide with Hydrogen, into various hydrocarbons, is, in fact, almost vast; but, such chemical transactions, as we've pointed out in many of our reports, is often "lumped" under the generic label of Fischer-Tropsch" synthesis, named after the German scientists who, as seen in our report of:
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