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This news story originally provided by WAVY
June 29, 2005
Group to demand meeting with Massey officials
CHARLESTON, W.Va. Some West Virginia residents will be in Richmond today to demand a meeting with officials of Massey Energy.
The group includes members of an environmental organization and relatives of children who attend an elementary school adjacent to a Massey Energy coal preparation plant in Raleigh County, West Virginia.Hillary Hosta of the group -- Coal River Mountain Watch -- says residents of the Raleigh County town of Sundial and Julia Bonds and Bo Webb of Coal River Mountain Watch will be at Massey's headquarters at eleven a-m. They will ask to see C-E-O Don Blankenship or Corporate Counsel Kevin Yocum.
Residents say coal dust from a Massey coal prep plant only 150 feet from Marsh Fork Elementary School enters through air intake vents, causing asthma and other respiratory problems, and coating everything in the school with a toxic black powder. People are also worried that coal sludge impoundment built above the school is leaking and may break.Hosta says local Massey officials have ignored demands to make facilities safer.
Yocum said yesterday he did not know about the group coming to see him.Copyright 2005 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This
material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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