WVCA Annual Meeting registration has been e-mailed, along with The Greenbrier’s room registration form with our special room rates. To receive our special rates your reservations must be made by July 5th. The WVCA registration form must be returned to us as soon as possible so we can get a good count for each event at the Annual Meeting. The meeting is scheduled for August 6 – 9th and we will be celebrating our 100th Anniversary. Our special photographers will be joining us so this will be the perfect time to get a formal photo of the family.
CHARLESTON – Industry and community leaders joined together with key lawmakers at the kickoff to a series of coal forums forum in Charleston Tuesday entitled “West Virginia Coal – 2015 & Beyond.”
The event was hosted by the West Virginia Coal Forum, which is an organization that represents both labor and management in the coal industry.
The program is the first in a series of events intended to bring attention to the impacts already created by potential impact of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposed Clean Power Plan.
In opening the event, Chris Hamilton, senior vice president of the West Virginia Coal Association and co-chairman of the Coal Forum, said clearly that the situation has now reached crisis level.
To address the issue, Hamilton said the Coal Forum plans to send a letter to Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin to save those plants.
“I'm told that train has left the station,” Hamilton said. “Maybe it's too late, but we're going to ask."
The WV Congressional delegate wrote Governor Tomblin concerning the EPA’s proposed rule to reduce greenhouse emissions fromexistingfossil fuel power plants on Wednesday, June 3rd. The letter urged the Governor to consider not submitting a state implementation plan (SIP) due to concerns over EPA’s legal justification and the impact Obama’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) will have on jobs, electricity prices and grid reliability.
The complete letter is attached.
The following High School seniors have been awarded $1000.00 scholarships from the Friends of Coal Ladies Auxiliary for the 2016 school year:
From Logan County: Hannah Hunter, Logan High School, attending Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College majoring in Nursing; and, Samantha Short, Man High School, attending University of Charleston, majoring in Nursing
From Raleigh County: Luke Carpenter, Liberty High School, attending Glenville State, majoring in Accounting; Dalton Radford, Woodrow Wilson High School, attending Concord University, majoring in Business/Accounting; and,Brandon Hampton, Independence High School, attending Marshall University, majoring in Nursing. We congratulate each of these recipients and wish them the best of luck as they embark on their college careers.
West Virginia Coal Senior Vice President Chris Hamilton was the guest Thursday, June 4, on the Mike Queen Radio Show, which is broadcast across the northern part of the state on the AJR News Network - a network covering 14 counties in Central West Virginia.
Hamilton gave an update on the current status of the coal industry as well as the issues facing it today, and he discussed what he sees as the future of the industry in the region as well as his take on the recently completed 2015 legislative session and the political changes that swept through West Virginia in the 2014 election cycle.