BIG STONE GAP, Va. (AP) - Environmentalists and residents are asking state mining officials to deny a permit for a mountaintop mining operation in southwest Virginia.
The Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy was given a petition signed by 300 people Wednesday opposing a permit for mining on Ison Rock Ridge in Wise County.
The petition asks state officials to follow the lead of the Environmental Protection Agency.
The EPA has asked the Army Corps of Engineers to revoke its permit for the mining operation, and review the proposal under a more complicated permitting process.
A spokesman for the state agency, Mike Abbott, says the federal permit has no direct bearing on the state permit.
He says the agency will decide by May 8 whether to issue its permit for the mining.
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Published: April 29, 2009
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