We have been fighting this permit for years and opened the mine based on the economics of this surface permit in conjunction with the underground mine (in production). Finally we get the permit that was already issued and now there is no coal market. Obama is destroying the domestic coal industry and the only savior may be international sales.
The EPA through water quality regulations is making it virtually impossible for new permitting of mining activity. The environmental groups are now trying to shut down ports on the coasts so that coal companies cannot ship abroad.
This administration is pure evil.
Oh, I know. I come from a long line of SWVA coal miners, and have followed the EPA’s war on coal for a long time now since it impacts my family too.
They’re trying to kill the hydrocarbon economy in an effort to create “solar-topia”, though such a thing does not really exist.