Do NOT let the Bu$h administration lift regulations on coal company waste dumping!

There is no local jurisdiction that cannot override a federal law if a constitutional issue is not in question.

"Eminent domain" might be a stickler, but mountain top removal has nothing to do with highway construction.

"Taking to the street" is not an option for most local residents to confront their "local permit issuing governmental body" for open pit mining, but "taking to the street" does get attention. Please nobody get killed during the injunction period.

Again, what is the economic advantage here from the cost per ton of coal secured from this method versus conventional methods?

If this is a "safety issue" because of mine collapse risks for conventional mining in tremor areas or weak rock, find a different mountain and leave this one alone.

Has anybody ever been to Sudbury, Canada? If the lessons of denuding land has not been learned after visiting there , you are most dense indeed.

There is no local jurisdiction that cannot override a federal law if a constitutional issue is not in question.

"Eminent domain" might be a stickler, but mountain top removal has nothing to do with highway construction.

"Taking to the street" is not an option for most local residents to confront their "local permit issuing governmental body" for open pit mining, but "taking to the street" does get attention. Please nobody get killed during the injunction period.

Again, what is the economic advantage here from the cost per ton of coal secured from this method versus conventional methods?

If this is a "safety issue" because of mine collapse risks for conventional mining in tremor areas or weak rock, find a different mountain and leave this one alone.

Their motto is to kill and destroy.

ugh. people never cease to dissapoint. how lame.

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Help us get out the message that we will not stand for coal companies polluting our water any longer!

Sincerely,

Your friends at Stop Mountaintop Removal
www.stopmountaintopremoval.org

One more thing you can do:

Call EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson and tell him to protect Appalachia by keeping the Stream Buffer Zone Rule in place.

Call:
(202) 564-4700

LEAVE A MESSAGE IF THEY DON'T PICK UP!

Sometime in the very near future, I will travel about forty miles to an Alliant Energy electrical generating station presently powered by 60 rail car loads/day of coal and ask them to show me first of all what "coal waste" looks and tastes like and secondly what they do with it.

Can't say I ever asked. I can only hope it ends up somewhere in our "evil-twin" Illinois where the coal probably came from in the first place--what a situation!

Man, it must be a lot of stuff, they must rail car it out-- that would be my guess at present. Maybe beyond Illinois?

Maybe I could get some insight as to what agencies govern THIS waste issue for a plant operating since WW II--if I could, I would leave right now to throw out a "point to ponder."

My tracking # 8078181e

Thank you for this post onechance!

i think it would be okay to dump the wast in crawford texas. on the bush ranch would be juft fine.

...put George Bush underground....and Dick Cheney....
force them to be coal miners.....Golden Ruler...Will.......

I want tougher environmental regulations, and I want all such regulations enforced, but I ask again to please point out the relevant parts of this document that we're supposed to protest. I don't want to protest blindly.

This piece of garbage is to REVERSE that 100 foot regulation...

If you read the whole thing, you still might not understand. It's written that way to confuse you into NOT CARING.

This is the Bu$h Admins last handout to big Coal.
Its a LIFT of dumping regulations. Do want Coal waste in your drinking water? Do you want it in ANY water?

If not, comment, and tell them NOT TO LEFT CURRENT REGULATIONS (and hopefully to make them tougher).

Thanks.

thnaks onechance!!!! :D

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Good post Onechance. I'll leave a comment, and send it to some friends.

Good night! Is this like the last ditch piece of shit Bu$h & his Butt Buddies want to do to destroy our planet? WTF? This guy must really want to go down in flames!! Please visit the link, sign the petition and pass it on!
Peace!
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OK, I'm not sure I get this. I assume that OneChance has read the 249 page document, could you please save the rest of us some time by telling us where the scary parts are?

On the surface, it appears that page 6 says stay back at least 100 feet from water or stream beds. If that is not possible, they must explain why not to the satisfaction of the "regulatory authority". In addition, the miners would have to come up with a better idea.

If we happily assume that America will wake up and get responsible authorities into the OSM/DoI, then the miners would only have a maximum of 3 months from now to get their plans shoved through government under the current worthless administration.

Or should we assume that this follows the government's tradition of naming their actions the exact opposite of what they actually do, like "Patriot Act", "Homeland Security", "Fair Tax" or "Help America Vote"?

OneChance, which pages and paragraphs are of interest?

We must do everything we can to save the environment.

I say we just burn the damn planet down to the core.
Then leave it like that bastard child we never met.

I already sent to friends and signed petition.Everyone should

Send this to everyone you know. Please.