W.Va. governor’s company accused of failing to deliver on met coal export deal

摘要

Coal exporter Xcoal Energy & Resources issuing West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice and two of his coal companies forallegedly failing to fulfill a contract for 720,000 tons of metallurgicalcoal destined for seaborne markets over the course of a two-year coalsupply agreement.A July 2 complaint alleges that one of Justice’s companies,Bluestone Energy Sales, delivered less than one-quarter of the coal itwas contractually obligated to deliver in May. Xcoal’s complaint alsoalleges Bluestone failed to deliver on at least four of five scheduled coaldeliveries and said one set of shipments in November 2017 was of“poor quality” and “materially underweight.”