Buffalo Mountain/King Coal Highway Initiative

{Newtown, West Virginia}...A public meeting regarding Consol Energy's Buffalo Mountain/King Coal Highway Joint Development Initiative will be held at the Mingo Central High School auditorium sometime in mid-January 2013, but the exact date hasn't yet been scheduled. The purpose of the meeting is to provide the public with an opportunity to gather information and provide comments regarding the

combining of the highway department's Supplemental Environmental Impact Study of the 94 mile long King Coal Highway corridor (from Bluefield to Williamson) with Consol's proposed Buffalo Mountain surface mine. The end result, if permitted, will allow future highway construction to occur on flat land created by a surface mining operation.