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BIOGRAPHY
Thomas Swinehart has served the
mining and electrical power industries through his employment with American
Electric Power. While serving as the manager of exploration and geology and
senior regional coal procurement manager for 28 years, he was responsible
for:
- Directing of long and short term planning and execution of
purchases of coal for the AEP power plants in order to assure the continuous
flow of electricity
- Formulation of specifications for coal contracts, soliciting
and evaluating the coal supply proposals as well as ensuring that the supply
contracts were properly monitored for compliance
- Coordinating the delivery of coal to maintain sufficient
inventory at the plants from the suppliers
- Developing the use of synfuel
- Initiating meetings between plant operators and suppliers in
order to promote the cooperation and awareness of the respective
operations
- Involving coal supplier qualification verification as it
relates to the geological aspects of the coal properties and coal mines
- Provided geological evaluations, coal reserve estimates,
potential coal mining condition evaluations and evaluation relating to the
effects of coal mining
- Studying the effects of longwall mining on geology and ground
water hydrology
- Providing testimony in court and at public hearings as an
expert witness relating to geological mine conditions and coal reserve
evaluations
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