A very special episode of The Coal Seam television show is airing through the month of September. The show was filmed on location at the July Coal Rally in Pittsburgh. The show includes vignettes of the rally, which included Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin of West Virginia, Gov. Tom Corbett of Pennsylvania and Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor of Ohio. Gov. John Kasich was also on hand via a video he sent. WVCA President Bill Raney and Senior Vice President Chris Hamilton also addressed the crowd of thousands of coal miners there to protest the EPA’s GHG regulations that are shutting down coal-fired power plants and killing thousands of jobs.
The episode is available on the state Library Television Network as well as your local cable system’s public access channel. Locally it is on Suddenlink Channel 17.
The next episode, with scheduled guest Roger Horton, president of the United Citizens for Coal, will be taped this week. Horton will be on hand to discuss the impact of these regulations on retirees and the communities of the coalfields. He will also discuss the recent merger of United for Coal and Citizens for Coal organizations. The new grassroots group has approximately 7,000 members in 26 states.