An update—and a good one—to our last post on Sunrise Coal’s proposed mine:
In a clear victory for the Salt Fork River, Homer village trustees voted 5-0 to decline selling huge volumes of raw water for washing coal to Sunrise Coal’s proposed “Bulldog” mine. While Sunrise and its parent company Hallador Energy may continue to search for the water needed to open a mine, the vote in Homer shows the strong local support for conserving and protecting the Salt Fork and area water resources from coal mining.
Read the full story here (pdf).
Read our earlier posts here and here about the long battle against the Sunrise Coal’s proposed Bulldog coal mine.
