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Environmental groups say company mined without permits
Friday, April 9th, 2010
The Lexington Herald Leader reported recently:
Environmental groups say they have found another coal mining company that has disturbed Eastern Kentucky streams without getting federal permits.
In a letter to West Virginia-based Frasure Creek Mining Co., the Sierra Club and Kentuckians for the Commonwealth said the company illegally dumped dirt and rock into streams at mountaintop-removal mines in Floyd, Magoffin and Pike counties.
Gina Sorice, a spokeswoman for Frasure Creek, said the company realized a year ago that it didn’t have the required permits and reported each case to either the Army Corps of Engineers office in Louisville or Huntington, W.Va.
The environmental groups found a similar case at a mine in Pike County two years ago.
In the current case, the groups said, state inspectors visited the mines in September and issued notices of non-compliance but took no enforcement action.
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