[DevilsWin]

Coach, I've known from day one how little you actually know about mining, and it's rules and regulations, remember the little comment you made a while back I know all of coals dirty little secerts, but I'm glad you informed everyone else that you don't know it all. Yet you say you gave a good understanding of the rules and regulations, several times over the past months you've made comments about how much you've studied the subjects that you disscussing. How can you say you've studied mining prior to these discussions when you didn't know or still don't know:
1) What Contour Mining is.
2) Difference between Contour Mining and MTR.
3) About the different types of post mining land use.
4) That Streams are monitored for at least 6 months prior to starting a permit and are continued to be monitored until it is time for the bond release.
5) About AOC (Approximate Original Contour) you said "Reclaimation had to be back to original contour or better".
6) Difference between a sediment pond and an Impoundment.
7) Claiming sediment ponds are poorly constructed, when you don't have a clue how these ponds are constructed.
These are just off the top of my head, I'm sure if I went back through your post I could find many more, but if you would have studied like you claimed you should have known this and much more.


As far as your family members being miners, I'm sure they are very good miners, but like I've said before, I have family and friends in the Medical field and I talk to them quite often but that doesn't mean that I know anything about the Medical profession.

If I remember correctly on another thread when we were discussing raw sewage, you claimed that Knott County (or the county that you live in) did not have a problem with raw sewage being dumped into the streams.

Sorry, but with your current stance on this issue the term Anti-Coal fits you perfectly.

Conversely you seem to know alot about every aspect of mining except for it's effect on Well Water.

In an earlier post you claimed to not know of any instances concerning mine site that you have worked.
Yet on every other mining subject you claim to have superior knowledge.

You can't have it both ways Old School.

Either you know everything about mining. Or you're being subversive on the subject of Well Water(Drinking water).