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Exhibit 10.40

WESTMORELAND ENERGY LLC

 

FIRST AMENDMENT, CONSENT AND RELEASE

 

Dated As Of August 22, 2007

to

NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENT AND RELATED NOTE DOCUMENTS,

Each Dated As Of June 29, 2006

Re: $30,000,000 Floating Rate Senior Notes

 

 

FIRST AMENDMENT, CONSENT AND RELEASE

     This First Amendment, Consent and Release dated as of August 22, 2007 (the or this “First
Amendment”) to the Note Agreements each dated as of June 29, 2006 is among Westmoreland Energy LLC,
a Delaware limited liability company (the “Company”), Westmoreland Power, Inc., a Delaware
corporation (“WPI”), Westmoreland Power Operations, LLC, a Virginia limited liability company
(“WPO”), and Westmoreland Utility Operations, LLC, a Virginia limited liability company (“WUO”),
Westmoreland — North Carolina Power, L.L.C., a Virginia limited liability company
(“Westmoreland-NC”) and Westmoreland-Roanoke Valley, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership
(“Westmoreland-RV”, and together with the Company, WPI, WPO, WUO and Westmoreland-NC, the
“Obligors”), SOF Investments, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, as collateral agent (the
“Collateral Agent”) and each of the purchasers whose names appear at the end hereof (each, a
“Purchaser” and, collectively, the “Purchasers”).

RECITALS:

     A. The Company and each of the Purchasers are parties to a Note Purchase Agreement dated as of
June 29, 2006 (collectively, the “Note Purchase Agreement”). The Company has issued pursuant to
the Note Purchase Agreement $30,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its Floating Rate Senior
Notes (the “Notes”, such term to include any such notes issued in substitution therefor pursuant to
Section 13 of the Note Purchase Agreement). The Purchasers are the holders of 100]% of the
outstanding principal amount of the Notes.

     B. As security for the Note Purchase Agreement, the Company and the other Obligors have
entered into the following agreements: (i) a Pledge and Security Agreement, dated as of June 29,
2006 (the “Company Pledge Agreement”), by the Company, as pledgor and the Collateral Agent, as
collateral agent for its benefit and the benefit of the other Secured Parties (as defined therein),
(ii) a Guaranty, Pledge and Security Agreement, dated as of June 29, 2006 (the “WPO/WUO Pledge
Agreement”), by WPI, WPO, and WUO, each as pledgor and the Collateral Agent, as collateral agent
for its benefit and the benefit of the other Secured Parties (as defined therein), and (iii) a
Guaranty, Distribution Pledge, Collateral Assignment and Security Agreement, dated as of June 29,
2006 (the “WNC/WRV Pledge Agreement”), by and among Westmoreland-NC and Westmoreland-RV and the
Collateral Agent, as collateral agent for its benefit and the benefit of the other Secured Parties
(as defined therein).

     C. The Company has advised the Collateral Agent and the Purchasers that the Company and the
other Obligors desire to (A) sell, transfer and assign to North American Energy Services Company
(“NAES”) their respective interests in (i) the Facility Operating Agreement, dated as of November
22, 2000, between Virginia Electric and Power Company (“VEPCO”) and LG&E Power Services LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company (“LPS” as predecessor in interest to WPO and WUO (by assignment
to, and assumption by, respectively) immediately following the Closing) with respect to VEPCO’s
power production facility located in or near Southampton, Virginia; (ii) the Facility Operating
Agreement, dated as of November 22, 2000, between VEPCO and LPS with respect to VEPCO’s power
production facility located in or near Altavista, Virginia; (iii) the Facility Operating Agreement,
dated as of November 22, 2000, between VEPCO and LPS with respect to VEPCO’s power production
facility located in or near Hopewell, Virginia, as amended pursuant to Amendment No. 1 dated March
4, 2002; (iv) the Operations and Maintenance Agreement, dated as of April 19, 2004, between VEPCO
and LPS with respect to VEPCO’s power production facility located in or near Gordonsville,
Virginia; and (B) terminate that certain the Amended and Restated Facility Operating Agreement,
dated as of December 1, 1993, between the Project Partnership and LPS (as successor in interest in
UC Operating Services) and concurrently with the termination thereof. LPS shall enter into a new
operating contract with NAES (the “New NAES Operating Contract”), all of the foregoing of which
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Purchase Agreement and the other Note Documents (the foregoing collectively being referred to
as the “Transactions”).

     D. The Collateral Agent and the Purchasers have agreed to consent to the Transactions and to
release any and all interests, including, without limitation, any security interests, which they
may have in or to such O&M Agreements, and to amendment the Note Documents or remove any further
obligations with respect to the O&M Agreements.

     E. The Company, the other Obligors, the Collateral Agent and the Purchasers now desire to so
amend, modify and release the provisions of the Note Documents as of the date hereof (the
“Effective Date”) in the respects, but only in the respects, hereinafter set forth.

     F. Capitalized terms used herein shall have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in the
Note Purchase Agreement unless herein defined or the context shall otherwise require.

     G. All requirements of law have been fully complied with and all other acts and things
necessary to make this First Amendment a valid, legal and binding instrument according to its terms
for the purposes herein expressed have been done or performed.

     NOW, THEREFORE, upon the full and complete satisfaction of the conditions precedent to the
effectiveness of the First Amendment set forth in Section 3.1 hereof, and in consideration of good
and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the Company
and the Noteholders do hereby agree as follows:

SECTION 1. AMENDMENTS.

     1.1. Section 7.1(c)(iii) of the Note Purchase Agreement is hereby deleted and accordingly,
Section 7.1(c) of the Note Purchase Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:

     “(c) Notice of Default or Event of Default — promptly, and in any event within five days
after a Responsible Officer becoming aware of (i) the existence of any Default or Event of Default
or that any Person has given any notice or taken any action with respect to a claimed default
hereunder or that any Person has given any notice or taken any action with respect to a claimed
default of the type referred to in Section 11(f), and (ii) the existence of a “Default” or “Event
of Default” under the Credit Agreement, a written notice specifying the nature and period of
existence thereof and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take with respect thereto;”

     1.2. The definition of “O&M Agreements” in Schedule B to the Note Purchase Agreement is hereby
deleted and replaced with the following:

““O&M Agreement” means that certain Operations and Maintenance Agreement, to be entered into
on or about August 22, 2007, by and between Westmoreland Partners, a Virginia general
partnership, and North American Energy Services Company, a Washington corporation, with
respect to the Project.”

     1.3. Exhibits B-1, B-2 and B-3 to the Note Purchase Agreement shall be and are hereby amended
in its entirety to reflect the modifications to such agreements described herein.

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     1.4. The reference to the “Amended and Restated Facility Operating Agreement, dated as of
December 1, 1993, between the Westmoreland-LG&E Partners, a Virginia partnership, and LG&E Power
Services LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (as successor in interest in UC Operating
Services)” in clause (ii) of the proviso of Section 2.2(b) of the WPO/WUO Pledge Agreement and the
reference to such agreement elsewhere in the Note Documents, is, in each instance, hereby amended
to read as follows: “the O&M Agreement” References to the Note Purchase Agreement, the WPO/WUO
Pledge Agreement, and any of the other Note Documents in any of the Note Documents, as hereby
amended to refer to such documents as amended hereby.

SECTION 2. CONSENTS AND RELEASES.

     2.1. The Company hereby agrees to apply or cause to be applied the proceeds received from the
Transactions, which, as of the date hereof, as expected to be approximately, $804,000, against the
outstanding principal balance of the Notes which would otherwise be due and payable on the Maturity
Date, and upon receipt of such funds by the Collateral Agent or the applicable Purchaser, such
funds shall be so deemed to have been applied.

     2.2. In consideration of the agreement the Company as provided in Section 2.1 hereof, the
Collateral Agent and the Purchasers hereby (i) consent to the sale, transfer and assignment to NAES
of O&M Agreements (for clarity, as defined in Recital C above), and (ii) hereby releases and
terminates, which shall be effective as of the Effective Date, all liens and other security
interests in the O&M Agreements (for clarity, as defined in Recital C above) which have been sold
to NAES or otherwise terminated as part of the Transactions, which security interests have been or
may have been granted to the Collateral Agent under or in connection with any of the Note
Documents; provided, however, that the foregoing consent is limited to the transactions described
in the foregoing subclause (i) and (ii) as provided in the O&M Agreement (as defined in section 1.2
above) and the Asset Purchase Agreement dated as of August 22, 2007 by and among NAES, WUO and
Westmoreland Technical Services, Inc.

     2.3. SOF Investments, L.P. in its capacity as holder (“Holder”) of the Warrant No. R-1 (the
“Warrant”) (A) acknowledges receipt of notice in that certain letter (the “July 18 Letter”), dated
July 18, 2007, of the Company’s intent to conduct a rights offering and related transactions and
its consideration of a possible exchange offer (each, an “Offering”), and (B) hereby waives the
requirement to provide, under Section 2(j) of the Warrant, at least twenty (20) business days
before the Offerings prior written notice of “the proposed transaction, the amount of the Fair
Market Value per share and the amount of the fair market value of any Non-Cash Consideration
involved in the transaction as determined by the Board of Directors of the Company (including the
basis therefor)” (as used and defined in the Warrant). Nothing in this First Amendment or the
receipt by Holder of the July 18 Letter shall be construed as the Holder’s consent to either
Offering or the terms thereof nor a waiver of any rights under the Warrant or the Note Purchase
Agreement in respect thereof. In connection with each Offering, the Company shall deliver its
calculation of the amount of the Fair Market Value per share and the amount of the fair market
value of any Non-Cash Consideration (as these terms are defined in the Warrant) involved in the
transaction, and deliver the certificate required under Section 2(i) of the Warrant within five (5)
business days following completion of each Offering, all as otherwise in accordance with the terms
and provisions of the Warrant.

SECTION 3. MISCELLANEOUS.

     3.1. This First Amendment shall become effective and binding upon the Company, the other
Obligors, the Collateral Agent and the Purchasers on the Effective Date upon each of the following
conditions having occurred: (a) each of the parties hereto shall have executed and delivered to
the other

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parties their respective signature to this First Amendment; and (b) after giving effect to the
consents and releases set forth in Section 2 of this First Amendment, no Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

     3.2. This First Amendment shall be construed in connection with and as part of the Note
Purchase Agreement and the other Note Documents, and except as modified and expressly amended by
this First Amendment, all terms, conditions and covenants contained in the Note Purchase Agreement
and the other Note Documents are hereby ratified and shall be and remain in full force and effect.

     3.3. Any and all notices, requests, certificates and other instruments executed and delivered
after the execution and delivery of this First Amendment may refer to the Note Purchase Agreement
or nay of the other Note Documents without making specific reference to this First Amendment but
nevertheless all such references shall include this First Amendment unless the context otherwise
requires.

     3.4. The descriptive headings of the various Sections or parts of this First Amendment are for
convenience only and shall not affect the meaning or construction of any of the provisions hereof.

     3.5. Any provision of this First Amendment that is prohibited or unenforceable in any
jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or
unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or
unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall (to the full extent permitted by law) not invalidate or
render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction

     3.6. This First Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which shall
be an original but all of which together shall constitute one instrument. Each counterpart may
consist of a number of copies hereof, each signed by less than all, but together signed by all, of
the parties hereto.

     3.7. This First Amendment shall be construed and enforced in accordance with, and the rights
of the parties shall be governed by, the law of the State of New York excluding choice of law
principles of the law of such State that would permit the application of the laws of a jurisdiction
other than such State.

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     3.8. The execution hereof by you shall constitute a contract between us for the uses and purposes
hereinabove set forth, and this First Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts, each
executed counterpart constituting an original, but all together only one agreement.

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	WESTMORELAND ENERGY LLC

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Morris W. Kegley
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Morris W. Kegley 	 
	 	 	Title:  	General Counsel 	 
	 
	 	WESTMORELAND — NORTH CAROLINA POWER, L.L.C.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Morris W. Kegley
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Morris W. Kegley 	 
	 	 	Title:  	General Counsel 	 
	 
	 	WESTMORELAND-ROANOKE VALLEY, L.P.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Morris W. Kegley
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Morris W. Kegley 	 
	 	 	Title:  	General Counsel 	 
	 
	 	WESTMORELAND POWER, INC.

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Morris W. Kegley
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Morris W. Kegley 	 
	 	 	Title:  	General Counsel 	 
	 
	 	WESTMORELAND POWER OPERATIONS, LLC

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Morris W. Kegley
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Morris W. Kegley 	 
	 	 	Title:  	General Counsel 	 
	 
	 	WESTMORELAND UTILITY OPERATIONS, LLC

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Morris W. Kegley
 	 
	 	 	Name:  	Morris W. Kegley 	 
	 	 	Title:  	General Counsel 	 

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ACCEPTED AND AGREED TO:

	 	 	 	 	 
	SOF INVESTMENTS, L.P.,

as Purchaser and as Collateral Agent

 	 
	By:  	/s/ Marc R. Lisker
 	 
	 	Name:  	Marc R. Lisker 	 
	 	Title:  	General Counsel 	 
	 

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Exhibit 10.41

WESTMORELAND ENERGY LLC

 

SECOND AMENDMENT

 

Dated As Of October 1, 2007

to

NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENT

Dated As Of June 29, 2006 and Previously Amended as of August 22, 2007

Re: $30,000,000 Floating Rate Senior Notes

 

 

SECOND AMENDMENT

     This Second Amendment (this “Second Amendment”), dated as of October 1, 2007, made by and
between Westmoreland Energy LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Company”) and the
purchaser whose name appears at the end hereof (the “Purchaser”), amends the Note Purchase
Agreements, dated as of June 29, 2006, between the Company and each of the Purchasers named
therein, as amended by the First Amendment, Consent and Release dated as of August 22, 2007 (the
“First Amendment”) among the Company, Westmoreland Power, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“WPI”),
Westmoreland Power Operations, LLC, a Virginia limited liability company (“WPO”), and Westmoreland
Utility Operations, LLC, a Virginia limited liability company (“WUO”), Westmoreland — North
Carolina Power, L.L.C., a Virginia limited liability company (“Westmoreland-NC”) and
Westmoreland-Roanoke Valley, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (“Westmoreland-RV”, and together
with the Company, WPI, WPO, WUO and Westmoreland-NC, the “Obligors”), SOF Investments, L.P., a
Delaware limited partnership, as collateral agent (the “Collateral Agent”) and each of the
Purchasers named in the First Amendment. The aforesaid Note Purchase Agreement, as amended by the
First Amendment, is hereafter referred to as the “Note Purchase Agreement”.

RECITALS:

     A. The Company has issued pursuant to the Note Purchase Agreement $30,000,000 aggregate
principal amount of its Floating Rate Senior Notes (the “Notes”, such term to include any such
notes issued in substitution therefor pursuant to Section 13 of the Note Purchase Agreement). The
Purchasers are the holders of 100% of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes.

     B. The Company and the Purchaser now desire to amend the provisions of the Note Purchase
Agreement as of the date hereof (the “Effective Date”) in the respects, but only in the respects,
hereinafter set forth.

     C. Capitalized terms used herein shall have the respective meanings ascribed thereto in the
Note Purchase Agreement unless herein defined or the context shall otherwise require.

     D. All requirements of law have been fully complied with and all other acts and things
necessary to make this Second Amendment a valid, legal and binding instrument according to its
terms for the purposes herein expressed have been done or performed.

     NOW, THEREFORE, upon the full and complete satisfaction of the conditions precedent to the
effectiveness of the Second Amendment set forth in Section 2.1 hereof, and in consideration of good
and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the Company
and the Purchaser do hereby agree as follows:

SECTION 1. AMENDMENTS.

     1.1. Subsections (a) through (g), inclusive, of Section 22 of the Note Purchase Agreement are
hereby deleted and replaced with Subsections (a) through (j) quoted below, and Subsection (h) of
Section 22 shall be and is hereby redesignated as subjection (k). Accordingly, Sections 22 (a)
through (j) of the Note Purchase Agreement shall now read as follows:

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     “(a) Westmoreland Coal Company (the “Parent”) shall, within ten Business Days after execution
of this Second Amendment, deliver a new warrant (the “New Warrant”) to SOF Investments, L.P. in
exchange for Warrant No. R-1, which was issued with an issue date of June 29, 2007. The New
Warrant shall be in the form of Exhibit D, shall bear a date of issuance of August 20, 2007
(“Reference Date”), and shall be duly executed by an authorized officer of the Parent with the
three blanks in the first paragraph of each such warrant completed as follows:

     (i) The first blank shall contain the name of SOF Investments, L.P.

     (ii) The second blank shall contain the number 150,000, which represents the number of
shares of the common stock, par value $2.50 per share (the “Common Stock”), of the Parent
that are purchasable upon exercise of the New Warrant (the “Section 22(a) Warrant Shares”),
subject to adjustment after the Closing Date pursuant to the provisions of the warrant as if
the warrant were issued on the Closing Date).

     (iii) The third blank shall contain a purchase price per share of $25.00 (the “Section
22(a) Purchase Price”) to be paid by SOF Investments, L.P. upon exercise of the New Warrant.

At the time the Parent delivers the New Warrant to SOF Investments, L.P., the Parent shall also
perform such acts related to the New Warrant as SOF Investments, L.P. may reasonably request and
shall deliver to SOF Investments, L.P. (x) an opinion of counsel, which may be the General Counsel
of the Parent, in reasonable and appropriate form, and (y) such other certificates and instruments
as are customarily furnished by an issuer to a purchaser in connection with the issuance of a
warrant, as SOF Investments, L.P. may reasonably request.

     (b) The Parent shall use its best efforts to register the New Warrant and the Section 22(a)
Warrant Shares under the Securities Act prior to February 28, 2008. After the registration
statement filed with the SEC relating to the New Warrant and the Section 22(a) Warrant Shares is
declared effective by the SEC, the Parent shall use best efforts to cause such registration
statement to remain effective until the earlier of (1) the day following the date on which the
Section 22(a) Warrant Shares are sold by SOF Investments, L.P. or any transferee of the New
Warrant, (2) if not exercised, the date on which the New Warrant expires, and (3) if not exercised,
the date on which the New Warrant is no longer outstanding. For the avoidance of doubt, in the
event that the Parent is unable to register the New Warrant and the Section 22(a) Warrant Shares
under the Securities Act prior to February 28, 2008, the Parent shall continue at all times to use
its best efforts to register the New Warrant and the Section 22(a) Warrant Shares under the
Securities Act as soon as possible thereafter, notwithstanding the penalties provided for in
clauses (c) and (d) of this Section 1.1.

     (c) If the SEC has not, on or prior to May 26, 2008, declared effective under the Securities
Act a registration statement covering the New Warrant and the Section 22(a) Warrant Shares as
provided above, then SOF Investments, L.P. shall surrender to the Parent the New Warrant, and upon
surrender thereof, the Parent shall issue to SOF Investments, L.P. a replacement warrant (the
“Revised New Warrant”), in the form of Exhibit D, duly executed by an authorized officer of the
Parent, with the three blanks in the first paragraph of each such warrant completed as follows:

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     (i) The first blank shall contain the name of SOF Investments, L.P.

     (ii) The second blank shall contain the number 165,000, which represents number of shares of Common Stock of the Parent that are purchasable upon exercise of the Revised New
Warrant (the “Section 22(c) Warrant Shares”).

     (iii) The third blank shall contain the purchase price of $20.00 per share (the
“Section 22(c) Purchase Price”) to be paid by SOF Investments, L.P. upon exercise of the
Revised New Warrant.

     (d) If the New Warrant and the Section 22(c) Warrant Shares have not been registered under the
Securities Act as provided above prior to the date that is 180 days after the first anniversary of
the Reference Date, then on such date the Company shall pay to SOF Investments, L.P. a fee equal to
1% of the outstanding principal amount of the Notes held by SOF Investments, L.P. or any transferee
of SOF Investments, L.P. on the first anniversary of the Reference Date. In addition, if (i) the
effectiveness of the registration of the Warrant and/or the Section 22(a) Warrant Shares or the
Section 22(c) Warrant Shares under the Securities Act is suspended at any time or (ii) the
Purchaser is not permitted to sell the Section 22(a) Warrant Shares or the Section 22(c) Warrant
Shares for a period or cumulative periods in excess of 90 days in the aggregate because of any
event, action, request, or demand by the Parent pursuant to Section 1.1(i) or otherwise (each, a
“Fee Trigger Event”), then, on the date of the Fee Trigger Event the Company shall pay to SOF
Investments, L.P. a fee equal to 1% of the outstanding principal amount of the Note held by SOF
Investments, L.P. or any transferee of SOF Investments, L.P. on the first anniversary of the
Reference Date. In no event shall the Company be required to pay more than one fee to SOF
Investments, L.P. pursuant to this Section 22(d).

     (e) The parties acknowledge and agree that the number of shares subject to any Warrant,
including the New Warrant and the Revised New Warrant, and the purchase price for any Warrant,
including the New Warrant and the Revised New Warrant, are subject to adjustment pursuant to the
terms of the Warrant and the number of Section 22(a) Warrant Shares on the date of issuance of the
Warrants shall reflect events occurring on and after the Closing Date and prior to the date of the
issuance of the Warrants as if the Warrants were issued on the Closing Date.

     (f) Notwithstanding any transfer or assignment of Notes between the date hereof and the first
anniversary of the Closing, the New Warrant and the Revised New Warrant shall be issued only to SOF
Investments, L.P. Nothing in this Section 22 shall be deemed to limit any Purchaser’s ability to
transfer any Warrant so received following its receipt thereof; provided, however, that SOF
Investments, L.P. agrees that it may only transfer the New Warrant in compliance with all
applicable Federal and State securities laws and pursuant to Section 5 of the New Warrant.

     (g) The Parent represents and warrants to SOF Investments, L.P. as follows:

     (i) The Parent is a corporation organized, validly existing and in good standing under
the laws of the State of Delaware. The Parent has the corporate power and authority to own
or hold under lease the properties it purports to own or hold under lease, to transact the
business it transacts and proposes to transact, to execute and deliver

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this Second Amendment and the New Warrant and to perform the provisions hereof and
thereof.

     (ii) This Second Amendment and the New Warrant have been duly authorized by all
necessary corporate action on the part of the Parent, and this Agreement constitutes, and
upon execution and delivery thereof the New Warrant will constitute, a valid and binding
obligation of the Parent enforceable against the Parent in accordance with its terms, except
as such enforceability may be limited by (i) applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting the enforcement of creditors’
rights generally and (ii) general principles of equity (regardless of whether such
enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

     (iii) The execution, delivery and performance by the Parent of this Agreement and the
New Warrant will not (i) contravene, result in any breach of, or constitute a default under,
or result in the creation of any Lien (other than a Permitted Lien) in respect of any
property of the Parent under, any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, loan, purchase or
credit agreement, lease, agreement, corporate charter or by-laws, or any other agreement or
instrument to which the Parent is bound or by which the Parent or any of its properties may
be bound or affected, (ii) conflict with or result in a breach of any of the terms,
conditions or provisions of any order, judgment, decree, or ruling of any court, arbitrator
or Governmental Authority applicable to the Parent, or (iii) violate any provision of any
statute or other rule or regulation of any Governmental Authority applicable to the Parent,
except, in each case, for such contraventions, breaches, defaults, Liens, conflicts and
violations that would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have
a material adverse effect on the Parent.

     (h) The Purchaser acknowledges that the Parent is not currently eligible to register its
securities on Form S-3. In order to facilitate compliance with relevant securities laws, the
parties agree as follows:

     (i) After each filing by the Parent pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), (A) the Parent shall promptly file with the
SEC an amendment to the registration statement required by this Agreement (the
“Registration Statement”), and (B) the Purchaser shall not sell any shares pursuant
to the Registration Statement until the SEC has declared effective the Registration
Statement, as amended to reflect such filing.

     (ii) The Parent and the Purchaser may agree that a particular filing by the
Parent does not necessitate an amendment to the Registration Statement. The Parent
and the Purchaser agree that filings by the Parent on Form 8-K that contain only
Regulation FD disclosure and exhibits associated with Regulation FD disclosure do
not necessitate an amendment to the Registration Statement.

     (iii) Promptly after the Parent is eligible to register its securities on Form
S-3, the Parent shall take appropriate steps to amend the Registration Statement so
that it is on Form S-3, otherwise convert the Registration Statement into a
registration statement on Form S-3, or replace the Registration Statement

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with a registration statement on Form S-3, and the Purchaser shall take such
actions as the Parent may reasonably request in connection therewith.

     (i) The Parent shall have the right to delay the filing or effectiveness of a registration
statement required pursuant to this Agreement during one or more periods aggregating not more than
ninety (90) days in any twelve (12) month period in the event of one or more Pending Amendments. A
“Pending Amendment” means either (A) a change in or amendment to the registration statement to
include information that (i) the Parent would, in accordance with the advice of its counsel, be
required to disclose in the prospectus but which the Parent would not otherwise then required by
law to publicly disclose and (ii) in the judgment of the Parent’s board of directors, there is a
reasonable likelihood that such disclosure would materially and adversely affect the Parent or (B)
a change in or amendment to the registration statement to include the consolidated financial
results of a fiscal quarter or fiscal period of the Parent after such results become known to
Parent, if in the judgment of Parent such results, when publicly disclosed, are reasonably likely
to have a material effect on the market price of the parent’s common stock. In the event that, in
the judgment of the Parent, it is advisable to suspend use of a prospectus included in a
registration statement filed pursuant to this Agreement, due to a Pending Amendment, then the
Parent shall promptly notify the Purchaser to such effect, and, upon receipt of such notice, the
Purchaser shall immediately discontinue any sales pursuant to such registration statement until the
Purchaser has received copies of a supplemented or amended prospectus or until the Purchaser is
advised in writing by the Parent that the then current prospectus may be used and has received
copies of any additional or supplemental filings that are incorporated or deemed incorporated by
reference in such prospectus. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Purchaser shall
not exercise its rights under the preceding sentence to suspend sales for a period or periods
aggregating more than ninety (90) days in any twelve (12) month period.

     (j) For the avoidance of doubt, nothing in the foregoing clauses (h) and (i) and no actions
taken in connections with such clauses shall affect the rights of the Purchaser or the dates or
time periods specified in the foregoing clauses (c), (d) and (e).

SECTION 2. MISCELLANEOUS.

     2.1. This Second Amendment shall become effective and binding upon the Company and the
Purchaser on the Effective Date upon each of the following conditions having occurred: (a) each of
the parties hereto shall have executed and delivered to the other party its respective signature to
this Second Amendment; and (b) after giving effect to the execution and delivery of this Second
Amendment, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.

     2.2. This Second Amendment shall be construed in connection with and as part of the Note
Purchase Agreement and the other Note Documents, and except as modified and expressly amended by
this Second Amendment, all terms, conditions and covenants contained in the Note Purchase Agreement
and the other Note Documents are hereby ratified and shall be and remain in full force and effect.

     2.3. Any and all notices, requests, certificates and other instruments executed and delivered
after the execution and delivery of this Second Amendment may refer to the Note Purchase Agreement
or nay of the other Note Documents without making specific reference to

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this Second Amendment but nevertheless all such references shall include this Second Amendment
unless the context otherwise requires.

     2.4. The descriptive headings of the various Sections or parts of this Second Amendment are
for convenience only and shall not affect the meaning or construction of any of the provisions
hereof.

     2.5. Any provision of this Second Amendment that is prohibited or unenforceable in any
jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or
unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or
unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall (to the full extent permitted by law) not invalidate or
render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction

     2.6. This Second Amendment may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be an original
but all of which together shall constitute one instrument. Each counterpart may consist of a
number of copies hereof, each signed by less than all, but together signed by all, of the parties
hereto.

     2.7. This Second Amendment shall be construed and enforced in accordance with, and the rights
of the parties shall be governed by, the law of the State of New York excluding choice of law
principles of the law of such State that would permit the application of the laws of a jurisdiction
other than such State.

     2.8. The execution hereof by you shall constitute a contract between us for the uses and
purposes hereinabove set forth, and this Second Amendment may be executed in any number of
counterparts, each executed counterpart constituting an original, but all together only one
agreement.

	 	 	 	 	 
	 	WESTMORELAND ENERGY LLC

 	 
	 	By:  	/s/ Morris W. Kegley
 	 
	 	 	Morris W. Kegley 	 
	 	 	General Counsel 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 
	ACCEPTED AND AGREED TO:

SOF INVESTMENTS, L.P.,

as Purchaser

 	 	 
	By:  	/s/ Marc R. Lisker
 	 	 
	 	Marc R. Lisker 	 	 
	 	General Counsel 	 	 
	 

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