We're not sitting on our hands waiting for someone to hand us money. With smaller watershed groups and state and local government being open to new ideas, our job is to see that other solutions are being put into practice.
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If you try to undertake what is a 5 billion problem here on a month-to-month basis, it's going to take a long, long time at that rate to see significant results. It's important to us to know how much we're getting and for how long.Tom Rathbun
We need something that's going to work for the Appalachian states any place there was mining before the 1970s, there's a real need for reclamation. And that money still only cleans up higher-priority sites it doesn't even touch on all the non-coal quarries in need of reclamation.
Tom Rathbun
What we want is to find a more permanent arrangement, a long-term reauthorization (of the fund) that meets the needs of a state with our mining history.
Tom Rathbun
In the opinion of our legal counsel, an informational meeting does not violate the Sunshine Law. We were not asking township officials to take an action. This was an opportunity to explain where (the permit) stands so we can answer questions.
Tom Rathbun
I think they appreciate that our modern mining industry sometimes faces a lot of anti-mining bias based on things that were done in the past.
Tom Rathbun
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