Westmoreland Coal Company (fka WLBAQ)

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WLBA's subsidiary Oxford Mining Company wants to mine area of the Perry State Forest in Ohio. A local paper's (Perry County Tribune) write up of a community meeting on Aug. 8th was all negative:

"...The company could be permitted to mine within 300 feet of residential homes and up to the lease line where there are not homes. Local landowners could experience structural damage to their homes, increased traffic on local roads, water contamination, and other issues..."

Ohio has a Reclamation Forfeiture Fund, which is a pool of money allocated for environmental remediation should a company to bankrupt. Want to guess why it is underfunded? Just last year Ohio transferred $5M out of the Fund into their general funds.