[Coach_Owens87]

Apparently Coach is speechless:Clap:

Nope, Like I stated I have better things to do than engage in this pointless debate. Ive been loaded with homework the last couple of days, so I haven't had a lot of time to view the site.

Again you just mention the same things, I know that you worked in coal industry for many years, and that you know all the laws regarding reclamation. But none of that really matters to me, anyone can know the laws, but knowing if they are enforced is the real issue. Judging from what I've seen and read, the reclamation laws, and the CWA (Clean Water Act) are all but looked over. And with Bush doing an all out assualt on all laws that protect the environment, companies can get by with this. Just research how bush changed the CWA.

Google Earth
You can debate the pictures all you wont, like I said, I encourage other people to visit the site, or to visit abandoned mine sites and come to their own conclusion. We aren't going to give in on our beliefs so debating is pretty meaningless.


Since you have been beating a dead horse this whole thread, I feel I can do the same. The facts that really matter to me is that 98% of abandoned MTR sites are not used, but politicians, and coal companies still say that the flat landed is needed, doesn't make sense to me.

over 700 miles of streams have been buried, between 1985 - 2001, this is from the EPA.

an estimated 2,200 square miles of forest will be destroyed by 2012. EPA

Now matter how many laws, or stories you throw my way nothing can disprove that devastation being caused by MTR.

All of this is going on while this region is stricken with poverty, and in desperate need of an economic boost, but the "boom-bust" coal industry has a stranglehold on this area. Coal has not and will not move this area forward.

I know you feel that Im nothing more than a know-it-all college student who thinks we can solve all the worlds issues, and that isn't far from the truth. I totally agree that we all neede a tutor, Im just glad the tutors in my life don't have such a biased, false view on issues such as this.

I hope that by the time im your age I can have more to do with my life than defend a dying energy source with a young brat.