Grassroots Support Needed
May 6, 2021 - Below is a message from the West Virginia Coal Association:
With the release of President Biden’s decarbonization initiative and plans to transition away from coal and fossil energy, it becomes critically important that we prepare to unleash an unprecedented, collective voice for coal and coal related industries.
While we plan to vehemently push back on every front, legislative, regulatory and legal. We are also preparing to mobilize an effective grassroots effort to compliment everything else we are doing.
Yesterday, we sent out under the Friends of Coal banner, notification of a June public comment opportunity tied to the operation of the Mitchell Power Plant. We also asked everyone involved with coal to register a comment with the WVPSC.
We are enlisting support from everyone to help us expand our grassroots program by circulating the attached Friends of Coal alert to all your employees encouraging them to file a personal comment and additionally have their friends and family members file a comment as well. Please respond today!
We are also mobilizing our social media platforms to drive comments to the WVPSC (see first post planned for Friday below).
The larger “coal economy”, including companies, vendors, workers, community leaders and citizens alike, must band together and do everything imaginable to help preserve coal mining and coal-fired power generation jobs.
We have a great story to tell, and nobody is more deserving of support from our government than our working miners and all those individuals who receive a paycheck because of an operating coal mine or an electric generation facility.
Thank you for your continued support! Please contact Chris Hamilton, CHamilton@wvcoal.com, or Jason Bostic, JBostic@wvcoal.com, if you have any questions or if more information is needed.