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Article: Study clears the way for development of McDowell County industrial park

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July 26, 1999
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BLUEFIELD - A McDowell County development project that was stalled briefly while scientists searched for an endangered bat species got the go-ahead July 9, and work is proceeding along as projected.

"They set collection nets on the property that's the site of a planned industrial park," Elden Green said. Green is president of the Welchbased Greentree Consulting. Co., a business that specializes in mine reclamation and engineering services. "They caught 36 bats that first night. The good news is that none of them were the endangered Indiana bats."

About three weeks earlier, Green had expressed his frustration over the required bat study during a meeting of the Pocahontas Coal Association in ...

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