Not On My Land By Tarence Ray For weeks Phillip Johnson lay in bed and listened to them tear up his land. “To be honest with you, it was about the worst thing I ever experienced,” Johnson recounts. “Them ripping…
Blog Archives
Kentucky Resident Challenges Coal Company’s Right to Mine
TAGS: Coal Kentucky mountaintop removal coal mining Property Rights surface mining Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
Big Coal’s Assault on Property Rights
Big Coal’s audacity can be astounding. For years, the coal company Consol has been dumping toxic wastewater into mined-out underground mines in Buchanan County, Virginia, without the consent of the owners of the property where these old mines are located.…
