Westmoreland Coal Company (OTCPK:WLBA.Q) is moving closer to selling mines to a group of creditors in its bankruptcy reorganization, wiping out existing shareholders and leaving hundreds of millions of dollars in retired miners' health care and benefits unpaid. A judge's order last week, allows Westmoreland to proceed toward its planned coal mine sale in January 2019. “The process so far has appeared more focused on the sale to secured creditors and less focused on the assets that might not be acquired or what happens to those workers and the mine reclamation obligations,” said said Peter Morgan, Sierra Club attorney monitoring the bankruptcy.