Bungee Jumping Coming To Harpers Ferry This Spring
A Canadian company plans to open a bungee jumping site at an abandoned quarry in Harpers Ferry this May.
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Coal Slurry
UPDATE: Coal Slurry Spills into Crooked Run in Boone County
West Virginia environmental officials say coal slurry leaked into Crooked Run near Peytona in Boone County, south of Charleston. Updated March 24, 2017…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsCoal Company Seeks OK to Expand Slurry Impoundment
A Murray Energy company wants to expand a coal slurry impoundment in Harrison County to increase its capacity.The former Consolidation Coal Co., now…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWest Virginia Plant Faces Fines in Slurry Spill
West Virginia environmental regulators have proposed more than $21,000 in fines for a Kanawha County plant that spilled coal slurry into a creek.The fines…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsCoal Company Cited by MSHA for Coal Slurry Death
A coal company has been cited by federal mining regulators for the November 2012 collapse of a Harrison County coal slurry impoundment that left a miner…
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W.Va. Company That Spilled Coal Slurry Cited Again
State environmental regulators have cited another violation at the West Virginia plant that spilled coal slurry into a stream last week.The Department of…
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsCoal Wastewater Spills Into McDowell Creek
State regulators say snowmelt has sent wastewater at a former coal impoundment site spilling over sediment control ponds and into a McDowell County…
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