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A coal mine fire in East Carbon, Utah is still burning after it initially caught fire in late September, wreaking havoc on the impoverished town surrounding it.
BLM Press Release The Bureau of Land Management Green River District has prepared an environmental assessment and authorized Emery County Coal Resources, Inc. to take measures on approximately 7.3 surface acres to fight the Lila Canyon Mine fire near Price, Utah, that started Sept. 20. If unaddressed, the fire could result in the disruption of
Photo courtesy of Emery County Coal Resources, Inc. Facebook Page A fire has been reported at the Lila Canyon Coal Mine in Emery County, according to authorities. The Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining announced that the fire began on Tuesday. The division received the report of the fire on Wednesday. Early reports indicate
| Updated: Feb. 11, 2021, 7:46 p.m.
Coal remains king in Utah’s Emery County despite bankruptcies, shrinking demand and obstacles shipping it overseas.
The Bureau of Land Management quietly signed off on a plan to expand a Utah coal producer’s federal lease by 7.2 million tons, adding two or three years of additional production from Emery County’s Lila Canyon mine. But at the same time it shelved a proposal to issue a much larger lease to the mine’s operator, the reorganized Murray Energy Corp., which recently emerged from bankruptcy with a new name and corporate structure.
Even as mines shutter all over the United States in the face of declining demand for coal in the power sector, Lila has steadily increased its output since it went into production about a decade ago, reaching 3.7 million tons in 2019.