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 How to Promote Strip Mining

     Was less than neutral about it most of my life, simply did not care one way or another. Then they started stripping right behind my house, right in the community of Lower Pompey. The old railroad bed runs parallel with Pompey Road and they use the Old Rail Roadbed as a haul road. First operation moved in silt pond failed and caused me extensive damage but at least they tried to be good neighbors and fixed it. New operation  has left a heavy footprint in the community. One apartment destroyed and one residence blast rock damage that I know of. Started running trucks at night and its is as bad as water boarding, empty tractor trailer beds on the potted dirt road make it impossible to sleep, would have to hear it to believe it. Just for added harassment park trucks and equipment behind house on top of hill in reverse so you can listen to the backup warning horn. I have had large amount of dirt & rock wash onto my property from the water run off from the railroad bed that cuts down an access road. They did a hollow fill right in behind my house, destroyed a whole valley. The dust is terrible in the summer and would not put a water truck on until I called Air quality. Still do not water all the time behind me, more harassment. Silt pond that failed once was built to a greater height and now holds more water behind me. They have changed my attitude about strip mining and I now intend to let everybody know about the practice of Mountain Top Removal and Hollow Fill Mining. The coal industry at large has this operation up here at lower Pompey to thank for people who originally did not care to people who now are going to every publication, organization and forum that will listen to speak out against this type of mining.

The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.

Do as I say, not as I do

I love this bunch of elitist coal barons who come in here and run rough shod over the whole area. They see no more than a bunch of dumb hillbilly's that will swallow any line the coal company's push in the papers or on TV. It is well know that they do not live in the mess they create. I don't think the people who own the mineral would allow a strip job in their neighborhood. I don't think the Coal Corporation owners would either. In the high-class neighborhoods they live in, I don't think the neighbors would be enthused with it. Of course those kind of neighbors have the power to stop it, we don't. I don't even believe the supervisors of these strip jobs live in neighborhoods where stripping is allowed. It's all according to your class in society. It is their line to push it in other communities and push it as the economic savior of the land, but not in my back yard. Preaching it's your patriotic duty to king coal to love mountain top removal and valley fills and not say anything bad to hurt the coal industry. Of course they don't have to live with it, most of the corporations are owned by out of state interest and that is where most of the money goes. Well guess what I don't like it in my back yard either but I can't afford to live in an exclusive community where it would not be allowed. I can help organizations that are trying to stop this practice and could care less what a coal baron thinks.

The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.

Depending who you talk to sometimes

"clean coal" means Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC)

Others "clean coal" means Coal with Sequestration.

But yeah, either way, both are not cheap.

As long as they have to destroy the land to get the coal out and put the ash back, it will never be 'clean'.

a liberal in redsville