Legal Opinion
Neal Blankenship v. Consolidation Coal Company
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided March 9, 2017No. 15-2480, 15-2482PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:
In March 1994, Consolidation Coal Company obtained the necessary government permit to “dewater” its Buchanan Mine, an underground coal mine in Buchanan Coun ty, Virginia. It then began to pump the water from its mine into the nearby Beatrice Mine, an exhausted coal mine owned by Island Creek Coal Company, which authorized Consolidation Coal to do so. Consolidation Coal completed its dewatering operation in 2003.
More than 15 years after Consolidation Coal began its dewatering operation, the plaintiffs, who own property over portions of the Beatrice Mine, commenced two…
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