We Need Your Help! Please Join Us!
What: Charleston, WV Congressional Hearing of the U.S. House Energy & Mineral Resources Subcommittee of the Natural Resources Committee
When: Monday, September 26, 2011
9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
Where: Kanawha County Courthouse (Old Courthouse)
2nd Floor, Historical Courtroom #4
407 Virginia Street, East
Charleston, WV
Please consider attending this important congressional hearing on Monday. The title of the hearing is “Jobs at Risk: Community Impacts of the Obama Administration’s Effort to Rewrite the Stream Buffer Zone Rule”. The hearing will examine the Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation’s (OSM) Stream Protection rule-making and its impact on jobs. It important to have a good showing of coal miners and pro coal people in the audience. The Courthouse opens at 8 a.m.
By OSM’s own analysis, the new rule would destroy more than 20,000 coal mining and related jobs.
We need your respectful participation at this hearing to show the congressional representatives in attendance that stakeholders in West Virginia’s coal economy believe the Stream Buffer Zone Rule is just one more attempt by this Administration to put Appalachian coal mining out of business, and with it, the region’s economy.
Please attend!