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To: Ish who wrote (470)	8/16/2004 8:37:43 AM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 27181

"reclaimed" is the word, and tough environmental rules are the reason you have nice fishing holes and wildlife areas. Current PA environmental rules require operators to deposit a fee per ton into a special state fund to reclaim strip mined land after the coal has been extracted. The coal operators fought this legislation tooth and nail, claiming they could be "trusted" to reclaim the lands after mining was over. Yeah. Right. The rules were set up because the mining companies set up separate companies for each mining operation, then bankrupted the company when mining was finished, walking away from the mess. The Pennsylvania coal fields were first developed on the middle 1800s, while environmental regulations didn't start taking effect until the 1960s. We were left with a legacy of destruction that we're still cleaning up. That's why we're so skeptical when the industry claims environmental rules are unnecessary or harmful. We've been lied to in the past, and there is no reason to trust the industry now.