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	Coal River - West Virginia (WV) Cyclopedia
		The basin of the Coal River lies in the south-central part of West Virginia, south of the Kanawha River.
		The river rises in the central part of Raleigh County, flows northwesterly across Boone County and Kanawha County and enters the Kanawha River near St.
		Coal River was improved by locks and dams, and navigated several years before the Civil War, to the Peytona Mines, 35 miles above its mouth.
	www.wvexp.com /index.php/Coal_River (178 words)

	Madison, West Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Madison is a city in Boone County, West Virginia, United States.
		It was burned during the American Civil War and was then incorporated in 1906 and named for Colonel William Madison Peyton, a pioneer coal operator, who was a leader in the movement which resulted in the formation of Boone County.
		The Little Coal River is formed at Madison by the confluence of its Spruce Fork and its Pond Fork.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Madison,_West_Virginia (458 words)

	Citizens Coal Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Crucial to the razor-thin margin of his victory was his upset in West Virginia, one credited to the efforts of James H. "Buck" Harless, a West Virginia timber and coal magnate; William Raney, president of the West Virginia Coal Assn.; and UMW official Dick Kimbler, an advocate of mountaintop removal.
		Coal was the top donor in the last two elections to the speaker of the House, the Senate president and former Gov. Cecil Underwood, says Norm Steenstra, who directs a citizen lobbying group.
		Expansion of an Arch Coal operation threatens her family cemetery and "home place." Halstead is now leading a group fighting overweight coal trucks and is running for the state Legislature as a candidate of the new Mountain Party.
	www.citizenscoalcouncil.org /news/razingAp.htm (4022 words)

	American Whitewater - riverad-all (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Confluence of Beaver Branch to confluence of Bluestone River
		Confluence of Blackwater River and the Dry Fork at Hendricks to the confluence of Shavers Fork at Parsons
		Confluence with Glade Creek to the Confluence with the New River
	www.americanwhitewater.org /rivers/state/WV (1137 words)

	EPA - Clean Energy - Electricity from Coal
		Coal is a fossil fuel formed from the decomposition of organic materials that have been subjected to geologic heat and pressure over millions of years.
		The coal is often cleaned or washed at the coal mine to remove impurities before it is transported to the power plant—usually by train, barge, or truck.
		Coal mining can also contaminate bodies of water with heavy metals when the water used to clean the coal is discharged back into the environment.
	www.epa.gov /cleanenergy/coal.htm (694 words)

	Van, West Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Van is a small unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia, USA along the Pond Fork of the Little Coal River.
		Van is one of the many small communities on West Virginia State Route 99, which winds through valley after valley staying close beside the Little Coal River.
		This West Virginia state location article is a stub.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Van,_West_Virginia (171 words)

	The History of the Coal, Oil and Gas Industry in West Virginia
		West Virginia was also one of the earliest oil and gas producers in the country.
		West Virginia is still one of the nation’s highest producers of coal and coal provides the major source of energy for 32 states.
		While coal may not have the dominant role in West Virginia that it once had, it continues to shape the state’s economy and provide power to millions of people around the nation.
	www.wvtraditions.com /coal/index.aspx?REF=&SCO=false (1299 words)

	West Virginia Vacations - State Of West Virginia - West Virginia Hotels
		The New River cuts a 53-mile long swath through the state, located in the New River Gorge is said to be one of the oldest rivers on the continent.
		As a mountainous area, the western portion of Virginia had no use for slavery and was opposed to the practice and during the Civil War; it became the only state to be organized as a direct result of the war.
		Coal from West Virginia helped fuel the industrial revolution once railroad access made it possible to move large quantities of coal to other parts of the country.
	www.westvirginiahotelfinder.com (608 words)

	EIA Kids Page Coal Timelines - milestone in coal energy history
		Farmers dug coal from beds exposed at the surface and sold it by the bushel.
		Coal was reported in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia.
		Mules and, to a lesser degree, horses and oxen were used to haul coal and refuse in and around the early mines; a few dogs were used in small mines working thin coal beds.
	www.eia.doe.gov /kids/history/timelines/coal.html (419 words)

	West Virginia 300 million years ago (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		West Virginia is known as the Mountain State, but 300 million years ago it was a vast, featureless coastal swamp extending for hundreds of miles and barely rising above sea level.
		Coal seams are fossilized accumulations of plants which lived and died in swamps that were so devoid of oxygen that few microbes or other critters could survive to feed on their remains.
		Coal seams in West Virginia average 3 feet in thickness, although they occassionally can be as thick as 25 feet.
	www.geocraft.com /WVFossils/Article1.html (367 words)

	WVGES Geology: History of West Virginia Coal Industry
		By 1836, the western Virginia coal fields had received so much attention that Virginia's foremost geologist, Professor William B. Rogers, was sent to visit the mines and analyze the coal in eight counties.
		West Virginia's southern coal fields were not opened until about 1870, though they were known to exist much earlier.
		In 1905, the West Virginia Department of Mines was established to enforce inspections laws.
	www.wvgs.wvnet.edu /www/geology/geoldvco.htm (1268 words)

	wv coal history
		West Virginia is fortunate to have been blessed with enormous reserves of energy rich bituminous coal.
		Coal is reported to have been mined as early as 1810 when a mine was operated near Wheeling, in the northern panhandle.
		The commercial coal industry began to grow with the arrival of the railroads in the coal fields.
	www.wvminesafety.org /History.htm (1844 words)

	West Virginia Apartments
		West Virginia has the highest mean altitude east of the Mississippi, and it also boasts the largest single natural outdoor recreational area in the country: the Allegheny Highlands, which contains more than 110,000 square miles of forest and mountains.
		Coal production is a major force in West Virginia's economy, ranking second in the United States and providing about 15% of the nation's total supply.
		West Virginia is the sixth most affordable state, with an overall cost of living 9% below the national average, and housing costs—including apartments for rent—at a very affordable 21% below average.
	www.rent.com /rentals/west-virginia (696 words)

	'Clean coal' dirty, groups say
		Coal River Mountain Watch and other West Virginia groups say the phrase is misleading and hides the true effects of mining and coal-related air pollution.
		“Coal is dirty when you mine it, dirty when you transport it, dirty when you burn it and dirty when you dispose of the ash,” said Vivian Stockman, project coordinator for the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition.
		This morning, the coalition and the Coal River group will join the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy and others to announce their campaign at a state Capitol press conference.
	www.sludgesafety.org /news/2005/12_14.html (397 words)

	West Virginia Environmental Council
		Today, segments of the Coal River, which used to run twelve feet deep, are now at depths which even canoes cannot navigate." Sediment from mountaintop removal mining and the associated deforestation is filling in the river, altering it and the habitat and water quality it provides.
		West Virginia, the Mountain State, is blessed with an uncommon abundance and diversity of natural resources.
		West Virginia ranks thirty-fifth in state population, but in 1997 the state was ranked sixth in the nation for sulfur dioxide emissions and seventh for nitrogen oxides.
	www.wvecouncil.org /green/green_2000_05.html (5109 words)

	West Virginia travel guide - Wikitravel
		West Virginia [1] is a state in the South of the United States of America.
		West Virginia is bordered by five states, on the east by Virginia and Maryland, the north by Pennsylvania, and the west by Ohio and Kentucky.
		Once considered the southernmost of the North, the northernmost of the South, the easternmost of the West, and the westernmost of the East, West Virginia is nestled between the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east and the Ohio River to the west.
	wikitravel.org /en/West_Virginia (3577 words)

	West Virginia Coal Mines
		coal was used only by the cross-roads flsmiths or by the settler whose cabin stood near an outcrop.
		From 1854 to 1860, more than a score of corporations were created under the laws of Virginia for the purpose of enlisting foreign capital, but the realization of their plans was postponed by the war.
		The production of coal in West Virginia expressed in short tons rose from 444,648 in 1863 to 1,000,000 in 1873, to 1,120,000 in 1878, to 2,335,833 in 1883, to 5,498,800 in 1888, to 10,708,578 in 1893, to 16,700,999 in 1898, to 29,337,241 in 1903 and to 61,671,019 in 1910.
	www.rootsweb.com /~wvcoal/begin.html (899 words)

	American Rivers:
		The river's few remaining natural sections are increasingly threatened by bank stabilization, poorly managed livestock, and dam operations that ignore the needs of recreation, wildlife, and riverside communities.
		The Upper San Pedro River, highly valued for its biological diversity and importance for neotropical migrating birds, is threatened by the rapid depletion of the regional aquifer that maintains the river's year-round flows.
		Although migratory birds still flock to the mouth of the river and the upper reaches are home to an abundance of wildlife, many species struggle to survive.
	www.americanrivers.org /site/PageServer?pagename=AMR_content_e53a (1170 words)

	Coal River 2
		These now-famous events were only the most colorful threads in the pattern of capital-labor conflict which prevailed in the West Virginia coalfields in 1920 when John L. Lewis became president of the UMWA.
		Stone discussed how miners working for the CRC would "live under better conditions than any miners in West Virginia have lived before."The Coal River camp was to be a "model camp," with "lathed and plastered"houses having "electric lights, sewers, running water, and in the near future.
		According to a delegate of the West Virginia State Federation of Labor, the construction of houses and other buildings on the CRC property were completed by non-union contractors.
	www.ble.org /Canada/History/History2.html (1025 words)

	West Virginia's Mine Wars
		On March 12, 1883, the first carload of coal was transported from Pocahontas in Tazewell County, Virginia, on the Norfolk and Western Railway.
		This new railroad opened a gateway to the untapped coalfields of southwestern West Virginia, precipitating a dramatic population increase.
		West Virginia was the site of numerous deadly coal mining accidents, including the nation's worst coal disaster.
	www.wvculture.org /history/minewars.html (3061 words)

	Coal River 1
		Miners often went on strike in West Virginia during the early 1920s, but this strike was exceptional because the Coal River Colliery Company (CRC) was an investment venture of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE).
		One segment of the BLE investment empire where the "strong arm" certainly was exercised was the CRC which operated four drift mines along the Coal River in Boone County.
		The early twenties was a time of great turmoil in southern West Virginia where the UMWA's efforts to organize the coalfields collided with the determined opposition of mine owners.
	www.ble.org /Canada/History/History1.html (1166 words)

	American Rivers:
		Before dams got a chokehold on it, the Snake River was the most important tributary of the mighty Columbia, producing one-third to one-half of the 16 million salmon that once plied these waters.
		Once one of the most dynamic rivers in the world, the Missouri has been so altered by channelization, dams, and flood control levees, that nearly 100 species native to the river are in dire straits.
		The Coal River is threatened by the largest mountaintop mine ever proposed in West Virginia's long history of coal mining.
	www.americanrivers.org /site/PageServer?pagename=AMR_content_1b27 (1428 words)

	Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine, Beckley, West Virginia
		Coal is the lumpy, fl foundation upon which West Virginia rests, both physically and economically.
		A recent flap of mine explosions and cave-ins reminded us that West Virginia is still chock full of deadly holes where men toil to heat our homes.
		The coal seam in Beckley is 180 feet underground and 40 inches high.
	www.roadsideamerica.com /attract/WVBECmine.html (716 words)

	SOUTHERN WEST VIRGINIA COALFIELDS
		A coal camp is a town where everything was built and owned by a coal company, including schools, churches, stores, theatres, and residential structures.
		Coal camps in Southern West Virginia generally date from the 1880s through the 1930s.
		High quality bituminous coal is still mined in Southern West Virginia, and the state is the No. 2 coal producer in tonnage in the nation.
	www.coalcampusa.com /sowv/index.html (1107 words)

	DOE - Fossil Energy: A Brief Overview of Coal
		Coal is used primarily in the United States to generate electricity.
		Bituminous: Still more energy is packed into bituminous coal, sometimes called "soft coal." In the United States, it is found primarily east of the Mississippi River in midwestern states like Ohio and Illinois and in the Appalachian mountain range from Kentucky to Pennsylvania.
		Coal is not only our most abundant fossil fuel, it is also the one with perhaps the longest history.
	fossil.energy.gov /education/energylessons/coal/gen_coal.html (489 words)

	Show Down in Coal Town : Worcester IMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For the third time in one week, residents of the Coal River Valley of West Virginia and supporters from across the country met at Massey Energy's coal processing plant behind Marsh Fork Elemntary School to demand that it be shut down and cleaned up.
		Yesterday's event demonstrated the growing strength of an increasingly widespread effort among West Virginians and Appalachians who are resisting the destruction of their land and communities in the name of corporate profit.
		The action was "A show down in coal town between parents and a corporate giant" said the regional news report.
	worcester.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1216 (832 words)

	WALHONDE
		The Trail Head for the Little Coal River is at Madison and the trail ends in St. Albans at the Kanawha River.
		The Coal River Group, a non-profit organization that is dedicated to preserving and bringing life back to the Coal Rivers.
		The Little Coal River Trail segment begins at Madison, WV and extends along that river watershed to the junction of the Big Coal River at Alum Creek, WV.
	www.coalrivergroup.com /WALHONDE.html (1153 words)

	West Virginia - Wild and Wonderful - West Virginia Travel, Recreation, Whitewater, Real Estate, Lodging, State Parks
		Next-door, the Coal Museum preserves local coal history, and a genuine, three-room coal company house from the turn of the century stands nearby, along with a relocated and restored mine superintendent's home, a miner's shanty and a small one-room schoolhouse.
		Coal has played a key role in West Virginia's development, and the state's southern counties offer the genuine experience.
		Originally a segment of the James River and Kanawha Turnpike, the portion from the Chesapeake Bay to Kanawha Falls was ordered cleared by George Washington in 1790.
	www.westvirginia.com /newriver/articles.cfm (2718 words)

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