Jocelyn Sheppard hasn’t always been a lavender and honey farmer. For more than a decade, she was the founding partner of a consulting firm that did market research, business planning and grant
Source: How abandoned strip mines are being rescued by a field of
Seems like the bond is a good method of ensuring cleanup? Especially if the bond has some sort of interest rate so it can’t be ignored forever? But then, companies would just go bankrupt to avoid/
“Without any competition, she pays just a nominal annual rent as well as royalties based on gross sales. It’s a godsend for the mining company, which is only able to reclaim the bond they have on the site when the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection decides the land has been restored and is productive. So instead of having to plant trees, which take many years to be deemed productive, Penn Virginia Operating Co. is letting Appalachian Botanical do the reclamation work faster and cheaper.”
