Coal River

Coal River may refer to:

Rivers
  • Coal River (Canada), in Yukon and British Columbia
  • Coal River, New Zealand, in Fiordland
  • Coal River (West Virginia), in the United States
  • Coal River (Tasmania), in Australia
Other
  • Coal River (book), a 2008 nonfiction book about mountaintop removal mining in the United States
  • Coal River was the early name for the Australian settlement which became Newcastle, New South Wales

Famous quotes containing the words coal and/or river:

    “In those days, the blag slag, the waste of the coal pits, had only begun to cover the side of our hill. Not enough to mar the countryside nor blacken the beauty of our village. For the colliery had only begun to poke its skinny black fingers between the green.”
    —Philip Dunne (1908–1992)

    “If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
    —Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)