Water

As part of its recycling effort, LCN is the only anthracite coal company that treats its water to improve its quality before being discharged into public streams.

In addition, advanced technology and practices have been adopted at the new Greenwood breaker so that:

• 100% of the water used in the process is recovered, decanted, and recycled back into the system for
  re-use and that
• No waste water will be discharged.

Coal

LCN has identified millions of tons of coal that in the past had been considered "waste" in previous generations.

Thanks to new and better technology, like the new Greenwood breaker, this material, once considered refuse, can now be harvested and processed as a valuable resource from silt banks and other bank materials.

The new breaker also incorporates a step that extracts recyclable water during the process leaving behind coal silt that is pressed into cakes for use as fuel for co-generation of electricity.