Published:
CONSOL Energy's Fola Coal Company Earns Excellence in Forestry Award
PITTSBURGH, May 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CONSOL Energy Inc.'s
(NYSE: CNX) Fola Coal Company Surface Mine 6 inBickmore, WV, has been
presented with the Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative's Excellence
in Forestry Award for 2007.
The award, presented by the U.S. Office of Surface Mining, on behalf of
the Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative, recognizes exemplary
efforts in forestry reclamation. The Appalachian Regional Reforestation
Initiative (ARRI), an OSM initiative, is a coalition of groups, including
citizens, the coal industry, and government, dedicated to restoring forests on
coal mined lands in theEastern United States.
The award has been presented annually since 2005 to individuals, operators
and/or organizations, and was created to acknowledge and give public
recognition to those responsible for Appalachia's most outstanding
achievements in forestry reclamation and to encourage the exchange and
transfer of successful reforestation technology.
Fola Coal was nominated for the award by the West Virginia Department of
Environmental Protection.
In January, Fola Coal also won the West Virginia Foresters Association
Excellence in Forestry Award.
Fola Coal has planted more than four million trees on the company's
surface mine property inWest Virginia through various reclamation efforts and
other events. The company has previously participated in other tree planting
outings and in other environmental initiatives, including projects with Ducks
Unlimited and the National Wild Turkey Federation.
CONSOL Energy Inc., a high-Btu bituminous coal and coal bed methane
company, is a member of the Standard & Poor's 500 Equity Index and has annual
revenues of $3.8 billion. It has 17 bituminous coal mining complexes in six
states and reports proven and probable coal reserves of 4.5 billion tons.
CONSOL Energy was named one of America's most admired companies in 2005 by
Fortune magazine. It received the U.S. Department of the Interior's Office of
Surface Mining National Award for Excellence in Surface Mining for the
company's innovative reclamation practices in 2002, 2003 and 2004. Also in
2003, the company was listed in Information Week magazine's "Information Week
500" list for its information technology operations. In 2002, the company
received a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Climate Protection Award.
Additional information about the company can be found at its web site:
www.consolenergy.com.
SOURCE CONSOL Energy Inc.
Copyright © 2009, PRNewswire
Copyright © 2009, NewsBlaze,
Daily NewsTags: ,MNG,ENV,OIL,AWD,CSR,RCY,PA-CONSOLEnergy-Fola
Search News
Daily News
