Coal companies pay royalties to leaseholders when they do not own the land they mine. They do not pay royalties to themselves when they mine the land they own.
In Alaska, two-thirds of the land is owned by the federal government. A quarter of the land is owned or controlled by the state government or municipal governments under state statutes. Most of the rest is owned by Native American tribes and administered by federally recognized tribal assemblies. Only a tiny fraction of the land is owned by private individuals.
For West Virginians to generally receive royalties, they would need to confiscate land from private owners and seize the income from the owners' pockets.
Typically, it is Communists, not conservatives, who use what is frankly stupid and childish rhetoric about "industry raping" communities.
Wideawake - try reading a little bit of the history of WV coal mining and how the early coal companies took the private property mining rights from landowners, created “company towns”, etc. It was because of practices of these companies that unions were allowed to become so powerful in this country. We’re still paying for that today.