Topic ID #12817 - posted 7/9/2011 2:43 AM
Jennifer Palmer
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WV won’t label Blair Mountain unsuitable for mining
Jennifer Palmer
Webmaster
WV won’t label Blair Mountain unsuitable for mining
by VICKI SMITH, Associated Press
16 hrs ago |
CHARLESTON — The state Department of Environmental Protection has rejected a petition demanding it declare Logan County’s historic Blair Mountain unsuitable for mining, saying Thursday that the same arguments were raised, reviewed and rejected 20 years ago.
A coalition of six groups that made the demand in a 200-page document last month said the DEP responded with a three-page letter on Wednesday declaring their petition ‘‘frivolous.’’
The groups, including the Sierra Club, the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition and the West Virginia Labor History Association, had cited the mountain’s historical significance, natural beauty and archaeological importance just as hundreds were marching toward its peak to draw attention to its story and place in American labor legend. The fate of the southern West Virginia mountain where 10,000 unionizing coal miners fought in 1921 is also being played out in federal court, where several groups are trying to have it returned to the National Register of Historic Places. It was briefly listed, then removed when neighboring property owners objected. The DEP ‘‘issued a decision without holding a public hearing and failed to solicit the input of the people of West Virginia,’’ said the Sierra Club’s Bill Price. ‘‘Their outright rejection of the petition without fair hearing should be condemned.’’
Read more here.
by VICKI SMITH, Associated Press
16 hrs ago |
CHARLESTON — The state Department of Environmental Protection has rejected a petition demanding it declare Logan County’s historic Blair Mountain unsuitable for mining, saying Thursday that the same arguments were raised, reviewed and rejected 20 years ago.
A coalition of six groups that made the demand in a 200-page document last month said the DEP responded with a three-page letter on Wednesday declaring their petition ‘‘frivolous.’’
The groups, including the Sierra Club, the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition and the West Virginia Labor History Association, had cited the mountain’s historical significance, natural beauty and archaeological importance just as hundreds were marching toward its peak to draw attention to its story and place in American labor legend. The fate of the southern West Virginia mountain where 10,000 unionizing coal miners fought in 1921 is also being played out in federal court, where several groups are trying to have it returned to the National Register of Historic Places. It was briefly listed, then removed when neighboring property owners objected. The DEP ‘‘issued a decision without holding a public hearing and failed to solicit the input of the people of West Virginia,’’ said the Sierra Club’s Bill Price. ‘‘Their outright rejection of the petition without fair hearing should be condemned.’’
Read more here.
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