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EPA’s MTR Permits and Status
Friday, September 11th, 2009
are here (.xls)
100% of the MTR permits (79 of 79) were kiboshed.
Why is the number of permits 79 and not 86 or 108?
Via EPA’s Q&A:
An initial list of 108 pending Clean Water Act permit applications for proposed coal mines was provided by the Corps and published at the same time as the June 11, 2009 MOU. The original group of 108 projects included 13 projects whose permit applications have subsequently been withdrawn by the mining company, 8 projects for which permit issuance was imminent and occurred prior to, or concurrent with, the publication of the list, 3 projects for which an ongoing enforcement action currently precludes a permit decision, 1 permit application not complete, 1 project for which the work does not require a permit, and 5 underground mining projects determined not appropriate for the ECP. Also, 2 additional projects were added to the original list. In summary, 31 projects were removed from the original list of 108, and 2 were added, resulting in a total of 79 projects identified as remaining on the ECP list
October 18th, 2009 at 12:46 am
I was at the “PUBLIC HEARING” on Tuesday, Oct 13, at the Charleston Civic Center..I did not have a shirt w/ yellow stripes down my BACK…I was surrounded and asked where I worked, and why I was there…I was asked to sign a ” friends of coal” petition, which I refused…I was then spit upon and threatened, w/ major bodily harm…( and THAT was just from the WOMEN!!!)…the “friends of coal ” LITERALLY kept me from entering the building..I was just behind a small group of maybe 6 people, 2 men, 4 women, from the “Climate Ground Zero” camp…they were treated MUCH worse by these so called “miners”…my name is John David Rose, I am from Clay county, WV…my e-mail is “jrx55@live.com”..I founded “Friends of The Mountains”..Clay , central WV local.We have “friends of the mountains ” shirts 4 sale, all profits go 2 END Mountaintop removal…and I MEAN END IT FOREVER.