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1970: Hurricane Creek mine disaster kills 38 in Eastern Kentucky An explosion at Finley Mine on Hurricane Creek, near Hyden in Leslie County, killed 38 miners when the blast occurred Dec. 30, 1970.
More recently, in December 2018, the Kentucky Department for Natural Resources issued a surface mining and reclamation permit for the site to a different company, Lexington Coal Company LLC, which ...
‘It’s gonna get expensive’ There is a lot of mined land in Eastern Kentucky that could be developed. Coal companies have surface-mined an estimated 1.5 million acres of land in Central ...
The Mountain Eagle is a local weekly newspaper published in Whitesburg, Kentucky. It is the main newspaper of Letcher County, Kentucky and one of the primary newspapers of the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield. It was published by Thomas E. Gish until his death in November 2008, and edited by his son, Benjamin T. Gish.
After a five-year battle against a large number of environmental groups, Frasure Creek Mining company and Kentucky's Energy and Environmental Cabinet agreed on a settlement on Dec. 7th, 2015. [13] Frasure Creek Mining complied with a settlement agreeing to pay $500,000.This also includes a potential $6 million fine if the company does not abide ...
The search started after the building collapse was reported around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, according to Kentucky Emergency Management. The facility is near Middlefork Wolf Creek Road.
Starting in the 1960s coal seams in both Kentucky coal fields have been increasingly accessed via a method known as Mountaintop Removal Mining, which is a form of surface mining that involves the topographical alteration and/or removal of a summit, summit ridge, or significant portion of a mountain, hill, or ridge in order to obtain a desired ...
Brown’s death was one of two fatal coal-mining accidents in Kentucky in 2022. In the other, 32-year-old Cecil Collett, of Pennington Gap. Va., died when a large tree at a surface mine in Bell ...