[Coach_Owens87]

First this ruling does not do away with the buffer zone, as your anti-coal buddies are leading you to believe. Oh...I forgot as you stated in another thread that your a college student in pre med I believe and I quote "I know all of Coals Dirty Secrets" . It must be nice to know everything at such a young age.

Second it does not leave everything in the hands of the Coal Operators, why do you want to turn everything around and twist them so they work best for you. Coal companies have to apply to the State for a mining permit this includes calculating the volume of earth proposed to be moved (in Cubic Yards). They also calculate the amount of yardage that can be placed in the mined area during the reclamation process, a valley fill is designed to hold the remaining yardage. 20 years ago it was cheaper to place the extra material into hollow fills, but today to place material into a valley fill could cost coal companies millions of dollars in Mitigation fees before the first load of material is placed in the fill area. For Coal companies to cut cost Valley Fills will become smaller to stay away from paying these mitigation fees.

Third tell me how can you justify calling a dry ditch or gully (epemeral) a stream, when most of these gullies or ditches are no more than 6 inches deep and 12 inches wide, and only have water running through them after it rains. Apparently you don't know what a stream is, so I will continue to define a stream.

If by taking issues and rewording and twisting them around so they help your cause would get someone a job in the Bush adminstration, then D.C. would be infested with Environmentalist and Liberals.

You can give me all the legal crap the coal adminstration feeds you, it doesnt matter, it's all bull. These restrictions, permits, and fines mean nothing. These big companies can pay off the measly fines they are given, so what does it matter?

Even before the proposed legaslation was passed illegal valley fills were being constructed. All a company had to do was ask for a waiver to allow the valley fill to be completed, and most of these were granted.


And you keep saying im being mislead, if being mislead means that I study a subject, look at all the facts, and then come to the conclusion I feel is correct, then I guess Im guilty. And it does feel good to know that im an educated young man with a bright future.

Lastly, the argument over streams is silly, weve already had this debate. I can justify them being streams becuase that is what they are called, be it ephermal or intermittent. You cant deny that streams are being buried, and I cant prove to you that they were intermittent or ephemeral becuase they no longer exist, so I feel this argument is going nowhere because neither one of us is going to budge.



I was hoping I would get some replies on what people thought of the interview, but I guess that isnt going to happen.