Peter’s Creek Coal Asociation will holds it’s 26th Anniversary of the annual PCCA Golf Outing and Dinner at Edgewood Country Club in Charleston on Thursday, June 28th.
Contact Deron Upton at (314) 342-7591 or Flick Goldsmith (304) 343-0500 or e-mail:
“Further Along the Road to Zero” is this year’s topic for the Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce’s Coal Symposium scheduled for August 13-15 at the Quality Hotel and Conference Center (formerly Holiday Inn) in Bluefield, WV.
A limited number of tabletop exhibit spaces are available and PDH credits may be earned.
Golf will also be a option on Monday, August 13 at the Fincastle Country Club.
For more information contact the Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce at (304) 327-7184 or e-mail: info@
“Coal Symposium for Coal People”
August 13-15, 2012
“Further Along the Road to Zero”
Sponsored by the Greater Bluefield Chamber of Commerce, the Bluefield Coal Symposium has the theme Further Along the Road to Zero. The symposium is being held at the Quality Hotel and Conference Center (formerly Holiday Inn) in Bluefield, Virginia.
By Paul J. Nyden
The Charleston Gazette
WINFIELD, W.Va. -- Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Tuesday he will vigorously oppose new greenhouse-gas rules proposed last week by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
During a speech at the John Amos Power Plant near Winfield, Manchin stressed the importance of national energy independence and the impact coal, gas and other energy resources have on creating good-paying jobs.
Today, Manchin said, coal generates 45 percent of all energy used in the United States and "is projected to produce the lion's share of energy decades into the future."
Between 2006 and 2011, Manchin said Tuesday, AEP had as many as 3,200 construction workers at its John Amos plant, now one of the world's cleanest coal plants.
Those workers installed more than $1 billion worth of scrubbers and other equipment to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by up to 90 percent, he said.
"Between 2006 and 2011, at AEP power plants in West Virginia, you created 27.7 million work hours on environmental construction projects," Manchin told his audience.
"This plant is an example that when government works as a partner, not an adversary, we can put thousands of people back to work, and find the balance between the economy and environment."
By: Whitney Burdette
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin said he is not going to sit idle while the Environmental Protection Agency continues its "war on coal."
Last week, a 4th Circuit judge struck down the EPA's revocation of a mine permit in southern West Virginia. It was also last week that the EPA released new standards for coal-fired power plants that would restrict carbon dioxide emissions. In response, Tomblin issued a news release on Monday, April 2, containing a letter to the EPA that lays his ground plan for confronting the agency, which he said hurts jobs.
"We've had enough of your war on coal, because it's a war on our jobs here in West Virginia," Tomblin said in the letter. "While Americans clearly want to decrease our dependency on foreign oil, you're killing off the source of 42 percent of America's electricity, power that comes from coal we mine right here in the USA."
Tomblin went on to say that the new rule is not only bad for jobs, but also energy independence.
"This rule is bad for jobs and it's bad for energy independence," he said in the letter. "It's bad for West Virginia and it's bad for America. Kill this rule before it kills our jobs and our communities."