Major cobalt mine planned for nt 50 miles south of Asheville

By By Brian Eichorst, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer March 11, 2014, 6:23:25 AM EST Share this article:

A major coal mine is planned to be constructed on the southeastern side of the Asheville-Chapel Hill metropolitan area in the next few years and will be used for mining cobalt.

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM) said Thursday that it approved a permit for a new coal mine located on property a mile south of Asheville. The project would be the first mine since 2008 to be completed in the region.

U.S. Department of the Interior approved permit for 3 million tons of cobalt on property south of Asheville

Construction of the site is expected to begin in 2017 with the opening of the coal mines.

The mine will hold more than 11 million tons of cobalt and is expected to become the largest one in the U.S. The operation is expected to produce 1.1 million tons of the material annually.

The site is located about 12 miles south of Asheville and near the Appalachian Trail (AT) in what is known as the "Iron Mountain" area of western Kentucky. The proposed mine is expected to be completed by the end of 2015.

"The new mine will be the biggest ever developed west of the Mississippi River into the Appalachian Mountains," said Andy Wysocki, BLM regional director for eastern Tennessee. "This will be the largest project of its type and is expected to be one of the biggest coal mines of this area in more than 40 years."

The 1.1 billion pound (570,000,000 kilograms) mine will supply about 9.4 million tons of carbon dioxide annually to the Appalachian region. The mine is also expected to create about 12,800 construction jobs, with 6,200 being expected through at least 2024.

The proposed mine is expected to produce 1.1 million tons of cobalt annually

Boiling water from the mine will then be used for power generation and distribution. The operation will operate for at least 25 years.

"This project represents a significant investment in the national economy and economic vitality of our state as well as the region," said State of Ohio EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt in a news release announcing the decision. "The proposed coal production operation near the Appalachian Trail will employ more than 100 people and generate over 20 million cubic feet of clean coal-fired electricity annually.

"This is a very important project in a region where many people are struggling to survive," said Wysocki in the statement.

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Police officers speeding charges against a man charged with murder in the death of an innocent bystander. (KMOV)

Investigators are looking into whether the driver of a minivan was distracted at the time a police officer shot and killed another man, leaving him lying on the street with what appears to be a bullet lodged in his neck, the Seattle 911 dispatchers office said Wednesday.

The caller at 1:52 p.m. Wednesday reported hearing five gunshot shots in the 7100 block of South 12th Avenue NE about a block away from the intersection of Westlake Way and South Beacon Street. The caller told dispatchers that he looked outside and saw a man lying on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to his neck and that the man was "standing right next to us," according to an audio recording obtained by The Seattle Times.

But by 2 p.m. officers had made a routine traffic stop on Eastlake Way NE between 14th Avenue and Westlake Way NE, about a block away.

The caller told dispatchers he and his wife, Jennifer, were in the living room when he saw a man "sneaking" back and forth, waving a handgun and looking toward them, the dispatch transcript shows.

"I could not see why it was going on in the dark," Jennifer said in the dispatch recording. "He did not give us a clue what he was doing."

When the dispatcher asked if the man was driving an SUV, Jennifer asked the dispatcher, "What's your address?"

"Just a gray minivan," the dispatcher replied. The caller's license plate number identified him as a 45-year-old male, according to the dispatch transcript.

When the dispatcher asked who was driving the minivan, the caller answered that he did not know, and didn't immediately ask why he had been stopped.

Then, Jennifer said, he said, "You have no idea what you just did," and turned around and drove away. He eventually dropped off his girlfriend in an apartment complex nearby.

At 3 p.m. Wednesday, investigators said the two-minute recording could help provide evidence the driver may be at fault for the shooting but that their investigation is ongoing.

"The officers did make a move. In hindsight, we should have stopped this sooner. It may have saved the life," Seattle Mayor Ed Murray told reporters after the shooting.

Murray said he expects the investigation will take some time, but is confident officers will "do everything necessary" to get to the truth in this case.

There had been speculation that the driver would have a drug or alcohol problem, but investigators said Tuesday night they think there was no relationship between the caller and the victim's girlfrien