[Coach_Owens87]

I only mentioned 23 because I didn't have time to type them all, apparently you missed # 19 (and the list goes on with another 75 Industrial or Commerical Operations and also includes 16 Farms or Agricultural Projects). WOW!!!

What difference does it make what the property is used for the fact is the property is being used. Yes there are 5 Airports on the list, but without surface mining creating these sites these wouldn't exist. The Big Sandy Regional Airport has a 5,000 foot runway it's still a little short for a commerical flight (Commerical flights need approx. 7,000' feet). Eastern Kentucky's topography makes it almost impossible to find a site suitable to build a 7,000' runway.

The Jail that I mentioned in Knott County is in the planning stage as was onother on the list.

Man do you realize that you just slapped over 30,000 coal miners in the face by calling them dishonest and lazy, when you said (let me qoute you "Today's coal industry isn't the same as it used to be it's not made up of unions and honest hard workers" Posted by Coach_Owens87 post # 25) Every mine or section that I've worked on has had several Christians that included Preachers, Ministers, Deacons, Sunday School Teachers that attend Church every time the doors are opened. To call these people dishonest and say they are not hard workers that their lazy just shows your IGNORANCE about everything!!!
How in the world can you call some one lazy when you have no clue of the work they do?

Ok thanks for taking me out of context. I never called todays mine workers lazy, gosh I can really tell you watch fox news, this is classic, take my words and twist them so they make me look bad. Calm down man, I never called you lazy, just that there a lot less miners today, because of MTR. My statement was that people confuse todays mine industry with the unionized industry of the past, which isnt the case.
You think by saying Christians work in the mines that I'm going to somehow think it's ok to practice MTR, NO. I stand up for what I believe in, no matter who challenges me or disagrees with me.

And the jail in Knott county has been canceled. We share a regional jail with perry county, Knott county didnt have the money to support the jail. Just like the power plant we where supposed to get. In Knott County, two former strip mines owned by Miller Bros, and Pocahontas's coal are being used for a youth center and ATV trails. I live in Knott County, this is how I knew this. Anyone who has been alive the last 4 years knows that plan was canceled, which just goes to show that your info is not current.