[Hoot Gibson]

If you don't agree with the study, call Duke. If you have evidence contrary to the study, that the minerals aren't really in the streams, feel free to post it. I won't take your "opinion" that's its mined clean. The stream studies say otherwise. You "busted" out of the mining scene years ago, how do you come to your current knowledge?

The study makes no claim about whether coal is being mined cleaner today than in the past or not. Do you even read the stuff that you post? I don't think that I will ever be so out of touch with mining that I would claim that coal mined in the western U.S. has a high sulfur content. Nor will I ever make the mistake of believing that eliminating surface mining would just result in the same coal being deep mined by retrained surface coal miners. Facts seem to elude you on a pretty consistent basis on a staggering number of subjects.