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Thats scary. Thats exactly what that is. We can only hope that by some chance it gets overturned in West Virginia before that noise gets to Kentucky. Yes its an ingenious industry, but its been an industry thats allowed thousands and thousands of families to survive, mine included.

If this ruling stands it will be a major blow to both surface and underground mining, I agree that coal mining is a ingenious industry, but this could be the straw that borke the back of coal mining and if this rule stands in West Virginia it only be a short time before it is enforced everywhere. Everyone needs to keep in mind that these sediment ponds do more than anything else to protect the streams below the mining operations. If the coal industry by some chance was to come up with a alterative method envioronmentalist would still complain and try to shut down coal mining.