The West Virginia Business & Industry Council (BIC) will host lunches for the State Senate and the House of Delegates during the Legislature’s December Interim Committee meetings in Charleston.  As we are long standing members of BIC and Chris is currently chairman of the organization, Association members are encouraged to attend and visit with our elected officials during these informal lunches.  The House of Delegates will be hosted on Monday, December 9th and the State Senate on December 10th.  Each lunch will be held in the rotunda hallway outside the respective chambers on the main floor of the Capitol.  Please let Sandi know if you will be able to stop by either or both days.

CONSOL Energy Inc. has announced that it has closed on its previously announced agreement to sell its Consolidation Coal Company subsidiary, which includes all five of its longwall coal mines in West Virginia, to a subsidiary of Murray Energy Corp. for $3.5 billion.

Lynn Smith, Secretary-Treasurer for the Kanawha Valley Mining Institute, as well as a Coal River Energy full-time employee, was awarded the honor of being inducted into the Kanawha Valley Mining Institute’s Hall of Fame (the first woman to be given this honor).

Remember The Miners will hold its 3rd Annual Bob Huggins Fish Fry onJanuary 31st at Mylan Park in Morgantown, WV. The event will help support Remember The Miners Scholars Program and the Norma Mae Huggins Cancer Research Endowment Fund. You won't want to miss this signature event, with VIPs including Honorary Chairman Coach Bob Huggins and many more to be announced.

For more information and to inquire about sponsorship opportunities, contactjasonp@remembertheminers.org

New York Post Article

The 2013 hurricane season just ended as one of the five quietest years since 1960. But don’t expect anyone who pointed to last year’s hurricanes as “proof” of the need to act against global warming to apologize; the warmists don’t work that way.

Warmist claims of a severe increase in hurricane activity go back to 2005 and Hurricane Katrina. The cover of Al Gore’s 2009 book, “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis,” even features a satellite image of the globe with four major hurricanes superimposed.