Word: pittston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TAKES A LOT of water to operate a coal tipple, and the one out on Buffalo Creek in Logan County, West Virginia was no exception. The tipple, owned by the Pittston Company through its Buffalo Mining subsidiary, used almost 500,000 gallons every day, two shifts a day and six days a week, pumping between 400 and 500 gallons of waste-filled water every minute. The waste was refuse from the coal mine, about 500 tons every day. Nobody knew what to do with...
Nobody could decide whose fault the disaster was. Republican Gov. Arch Moore, facing a tough campaign for re-election in November, disclaimed any fault of Pittston's. (Later, in the face of mounting public pressure, he would appoint an ad hoc committee to investigate the disaster; the committee turned up damaging evidence against the company.) Pittston said nothing, except that the disaster was an "act of God," although a Pittston lawyer told Ben Franklin of The New York Times that "in the long term, the responsibility rests with Pittston." But the people of Buffalo Creek, the survivors, knew where...
...support what has become an industry of corporate giants. Some 1,200 companies work small mines, but they account for only 40% of output. The other 60% comes from 15 companies, led by Peabody Coal of St. Louis and Consolidation Coal of Pittsburgh. Only three of the 15-Pittston (No. 5), North American (No. 10) and Westmoreland (No. 13)-are independent; the rest are subsidiaries of bigger companies. Six are controlled by oil companies; two are "captive" producers of metallurgical coal for U.S. Steel and Bethlehem...
...Pittston refinery would be an economic bonanza, and thus has some local support. It would cost $350 million to build and would pay about 90% of Eastport's tax bill. The refinery and its storage tanks would cover 650 acres -and under Maine law, Pittston must either own or have firm options on the land before it can get state approval for the project. The requirement hikes the value of as yet unsecured parcels...
...Pittston is said to have offered Mearl Corp., which transforms fish scales into raw materials for shirt buttons and lipstick, as much as $7 million for a key 35-acre plot...