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Keith Hall Raising Eyebrows for Participating in Kentucky - India Coal Deal

Erica Peterson (KPR) — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 14:00:33 +0000

The involvement of a state representative in a major coal deal in Kentucky is raising some eyebrows. Under the terms of a new $7 billion contract, Kentucky coal producers will ship nine million tons of coal a year to India for the next twenty-five years.

Keith Hall and KY's Coal Deal with India

Erica Peterson — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:08:26 +0000

The involvement of a state representative in a major coal deal in Kentucky is raising some eyebrows. The $7 billion contract signed yesterday creates a 25-year standing order to ship 9 million tons of Kentucky coal annually to India. Pike County Representative Keith Hall was instrumental in brokering the deal—but he also has several coal-related businesses. He also sits on the board of FJS Energy—the New Jersey-based company that signed the contract. Hall says his involvement in the deal was both as a state lawmaker and a businessman.

Kentucky Mines Sign $7B, 25-Year Coal Contract with India

Erica Peterson (KPR) — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:22:09 +0000

Coal mines in Kentucky and West Virginia will send millions of tons of coal to India, under the terms of a 25-year contract that was signed Wednesday. As Kentucky Public Radio’s Erica Peterson reports, the deal is being hailed as a sign of hope in the coal export market.

Good Read: Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo

Angela Hatton — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:05:06 +0000

Behind the Beautiful Forevers is the kind of book journalists dream of writing. Katherine Boo spent approximately four years with the people of the Annawadi slums in Mumbai in order to craft her expose on Indian poverty. The book reads like a novel. Though she witnessed most of the book’s events herself, Boo excises herself from the story, writing in third person perspective of the people in Annawadi.