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Coal extracted a steep price, now gas is taking West Virginia down same path

 

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This article was produced in partnership with the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. ProPublica is supporting seven local and regional newsrooms this year, including the Gazette-Mail, as they work on important investigative projects affecting their communities.

Rows of pipes are stockpiled off U.S. 19, near the Raleigh-Fayette county line, in preparation for construction of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, one of several large natural gas pipelines that will crisscross West Virginia.
(Gazette-Mail photo by F. Brian Ferguson)

By KEN WARD JR.

Charleston Gazette-Mail

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — It was a warm Monday afternoon in late February. Thousands of teachers, public school employees and supporters rallied on the steps of West Virginia’s Capitol building, on the banks of the Kanawha River in Charleston.

Schools in all 55 counties were closed again. Teachers, cooks and janitors were in the third day of a strike. They wanted pay raises and a fix to the skyrocketing cost of their health insurance.

On the other end of the state, at a town hall meeting with teachers in Wheeling, Gov. Jim Justice tossed out a possible solution: Fund the pay raises with an increase in taxes on the state’s booming natural gas industry.

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