[Mr.Kimball]

I don't believe that coal causes cancer, in the fact of mining it, you do get black lung, but when the local Pikeville paper tells you that your major drinking supply, which comes from trashtrap, or Fishtrap, as it is supposed to be called is telling you not to consume more than 6 fish a year out of it because of the mercury and whatever else it contains, it throws up a red flag. The state of Virginia has allowed Consol to dump their mine sludge into the Levisa river upstream in Grundy and God knows who else in there and it stops at the Fishtrap dam, which is our drinking water. Now you tell me that the cancer rate in Pike co. is not over the charts as to those dropping off like flies. The answer is not to stop mining but to get rid of it elsewhere. That is fact, people are dying like crazy from cancer in this town, especially if you have city water.

Unfortunately,people die like crazy from cancer in all towns........... Reckon it could have anything to do with the higher rate of tobacco usage in eastern Kentucky also?