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Bens Creek Granted West Virginia Mining Permit Allowing Larger Mining Area

Sep 22, 2022 View Original Article
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    4% Center

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  • Policy Leaning

    -14% Somewhat Liberal

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Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : By Anthony O. Goriainoff Bens Creek Group PLC said Thursday that West Virginia's Department of Environmental Protection has approved a mining permit allowing it to mine a larger area at its metallurgical coal mine.
50% : Highwall mining is a type of mining used to recover additional coal adjacent to a surface-mined area.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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