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Has anyone seen a missing mountain?

This past weekend, my wife and I attended her family reunion in Wyoming County.  We decided to drive down through Boone County rather than going by interstate since we weren’t in a terrible rush.  It had been a few months since we had been through Boone County and I must say, things have changed…and not [...]

Why is coal a non-renewable resource?

This website has been receiving a large amount of visitors through search engines with the title to this post as the search phrase. Being as that is the case I thought it appropriate to answer the question. Non-renewable definition – 1. That cannot be renewed: a nonrenewable license. 2. Of or relating to an energy [...]

Clean, Carbon Neutral Coal?

I couldn’t have read it right. Let’s turn around and read the billboard again. Sure enough, Walker Machinery is promoting clean, carbon neutral coal. I have a couple of questions. Has the chemistry of coal changed recently? Is there a new type of coal that nobody has ever seen before? Carbon neutral coal would be [...]

UMWA back to its roots?

An article in Sunday’s Charleston Gazette headlined, “UMW taking up mountaintop fight? Union won’t oppose a ban, official says.” I read this article with particular interest and enthusiasm. When I was writing my dissertation/book about MTR, I devoted a chapter to the UMWA and its part in the coalfields. I noted the historical role that the [...]

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