Appalachia’s biggest problem may lie below our feet. Throughout the booms and busts of the coal industry, landholding corporations have kept their grasp on the land which previously held coveted resources.
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Reckoning with land ownership as Central Appalachia moves away from coal
TAGS: absentee landownership Appalachian Land Study New Economy Network West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy Wise County
A Finite Frontier: Facing the Future of Central Appalachian Coal
By Brian Sewell On Sept.18, Appalachian coal mining giant Alpha Natural Resources announced it would idle eight mines and lay off 400 employees in the first phase of a “strategic repositioning” plan designed to meet the evolving demands of a…
TAGS: Alpha Natural Resources Coal coal decline coal employment coal production Duke Energy Economic Transition Energy Information Administration Progress Energy War on Coal West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy
