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Article: Firm to pay $1.48 million selenium fine: ; Hobet given nearly two more years to end violations
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- July 13, 2008
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Staff writer Hobet Mining Inc. will pay a nearly $1.5 million
fine to resolve a lawsuit by state regulators over repeated selenium
water-quality violations from its sprawling mountaintop removal
operations along the Lincoln-Boone county line. Hobet also will give
the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection $500,000
worth of rocks, perform two studies of selenium impacts, and get
credit for $1.5 million in supplemental environmental protections,
for installing selenium treatment systems at its mines. As part of
the deal, DEP officials are giving Hobet nearly two more years to
stop those pollution violations. A national expert on selenium has
warned that the pollution is ...
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