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	Name:	Bill -
	Subject:	Coal Mining at Smith Lake!!!!!
	Date:	9/8/2008 12:17:45 PM

My understanding is that this is strip mining. I don't know much about that sort of thing, but it has been going on here for decades. There are countless acres of horribly scarred land. It makes the entire area look terrible. No one really cared back in the day... but now that more and more people are living here things are different.

I'm not sure of what the environmental impact is though. It doesn't seem to have had much effect over the last decades of mining. But it should be monitored I'd think.

It just looks really ugly.