[Old School]

Im sure that if someone from the mining industry read my comments they would think I'm crazy, but thats expected. Zero impact mining though, come on.

To answer your question, yes I have seen a valley fill being built, but I have not seen first hand a valley fill that was near a creek, stream or river.

What I meant by comment is that the definition of fill material was changed recently, and this rule change violates the Clean Water Act. It's also not very hard to find pictures and evidence of valley fills that have damaged water quality, and sometimes buried streams and creeks. Massey Energy is very bad for this.

So now companies can "legally" (and I use this term loosely) dump mining waste and overburden into creeks, and streams. So it doesn't matter if I have seen it, it's happening, and I think it's wrong.

Nor you will never see one being built in a river it's impossible.

In 1998 West Virginia Highland Conservancy challenged the regulation of Surface Mining and MTR, because the word "waste" was used with the term "fill material".
In the final clarification rule the term "fill material" was redefined to include overburden, slurry, tailing or similar mining related materials, which is where were at today.

How you can say that your not against all mining just MTR, when your against valley fills? Valley fills are used in every type of coal mining, without valley fills coal mining can't exist, and if you and the other anti-mining groups were just against MTR, looks like you would support laws that would ban MTR.