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...quickly piled up when demand went down because of declines in the coal mining industry.The evacuation last year wasn't the first time the company...violations in West Virginia for its use of an old military explosive for coal mining in 2007.

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A fishy United Nations treaty

...into conservation when foreign fleets could so easily undermine their efforts. Of course, America had timber, oil, coal, mining, farming, manufacturing, etc; which made its fisheries less important. In Iceland, however, fishing was premier...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/opinion/2013-03-27/letters-to-the-editor
Letters
Permits approved for new coal mine

...so what you do in the mine plan is you say, 'These are the impacts, how do we mitigate this to minimize them?"' Coal mining differs from hard rock mining because it generally does not involve digging in areas that have a lot of metals, which...

http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2012-02-19/permits-approved-for-new-coal-mine
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What are we thinking with coal project?

...Resources is holding a public hearing to designate waterbodies within the Chuit River Watershed unsuitable for surface coal mining operations. On Jan. 19, at 6 p.m., at the Challenger Learning Center in Kenai, you will have a chance to speak...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/010711/let_766951484.shtml
Opinion
Is anyone listening to coal opposition?

...Jan. 19 hearing will be that the decision makers, after reviewing the data, find the Chuitna Basin unsuitable for coal mining and send Pac Rim back to Texas. Thus far in the process there has been little to be optimistic about. People wonder...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/011111/let_768565565.shtml
Opinion
Refuge Notebook: The influence of a father on a career in the outdoors

...abandoned farm fields and cattle pastures surrounded our small house built for my grandfather at the edge of a small coal-mining town in the early 1900s. To add to the mystery of the area for a young boy was a small stream, a cattail marsh and...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/011411/out_770079841.shtml
Outdoors
Residents oppose coal mining in Beluga

We are writing in opposition to the Chuina Coal Mine. We have lived in Beluga for 37 years and have enjoyed hunting and fishing there. We do not believe that the coal field should be put in.

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/012011/let_773556014.shtml
Opinion
EPA to undertake study on potential Pebble impacts

...and has never been used before a permit application has been filed or approved. A similar EPA assessment of surface coal mining in the central Appalachia region led the agency to issue new regulations for water permits in August 2010 and to use...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/021811/tra_787587273.shtml
transitions
Coal mining bad even a century ago

...that could ruin the beauty and productivity of another natural resource, salmon? We Chickaloon residents know what coal mining did to salmon on the Chickaloon River 100 years ago. We don't want that exploitation to happen near Tyonek and Beluga...

http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/032411/let_804772085.shtml
Opinion
Committee hears of Chuitna mine threat

...director of Cook Inletkeeper, on the impact the Chuitna coal mining project would have on the surrounding environment. ?I can...development for Cook Inlet,? Shavelson said of the proposed coal mining project. Shavelson described the Chuitna River, near...

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