New appointments to the West Virginia Special Reclamation Fund Advisory Council included a member recommended by environmental groups to represent them after concern about removal of the previous member statutorily required to represent them on the board. Gov. Jim Justice appointed West Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club chairman Jim Kotcon to serve on the board.
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Sale and surrender terms have been proposed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia for a helicopter that has belonged to one of Gov. Jim Justice s coal companies. The company, Bluestone Resources Inc., didn t participate in the sale proposal process, according to a joint court filing submitted by the other parties in the case, Caroleng Investments Limited and 1st Source Bank. Caroleng says Bluestone has failed to pay a $13 million judgment against Bluestone in its favor in 2021 and has been trying to seize the helicopter in response.
The District Court for the Western District of Virginia ruling came 365 days after DH-Dhekelia filed a motion for default judgment because Justice’s company, Bluestone Coal Sales Corp., failed to plead or otherwise defend itself. The clerk of court then filed an entry of default since the time Bluestone had to defend itself had expired.
An advisory council established to ensure the stability of a state fund key to reclamation of abandoned mine lands is missing a statutorily required member representing environmental organizations after a