Comments on: Stop the Coalfields Expressway

By: Timothy Baker

Timothy Baker — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 01:02:16 +0000

First of all im just a plain old working stiff. But let me say a ew simple things. The expressway will take my home. First we had the coal companies come and “take” our land under the pretense of so called mineral rights back at the turn of the century. Now all the “do gooders” sierra club southern appalachian group ilove moutains and the list keeps going come in and tell us they know whats best. Hogwas for us. Let them protect us from Mr Evil Coalman. That they will see to it that our surface rights are all good and protected. Hogwash. First you cant even pronounce appalachia correctly. Second we dont need anyone to tell/show us anything about coal companies. After 100 plus years trust US we know. If you dont live where the road is going little on out of STATE keep out of our business. We dont need you telling us what how when where and why to live our lives. Let us decide our issues, be it good bad or ugly, by ourselves. We know survived the first hundred years without you we can survive the next hundred. Or let us come to your neighborhood and make the decisions about your roads. Oh i forgot you all done have them.

By: Watcher

Watcher — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:36:06 +0000

Let me get this correct,you are saying coal companies are “disguising” this as highway construction and by doing so, avoiding safety and environmental protections. If this is true then the highway construction industry is the real culprit here accepting federal funds ang ignoring environmental regulations. Sounds like two different sets of regulations for virtually the same excavation process.

By: J. Deupree

J. Deupree — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:36:59 +0000

Enough is enough! How much more environmental damage are you going to allow to happen? Please STOP it!