Ryan Zinke's Interior Department Gives Law-Breaking Coal Company a Pass
Source: DAILYBEAST
Under Trump, violations against three of the Farrell-Cooper Mining Company’s mines have been quietly dismissed—leaving landowners whose land was ruined furious.
Laura Peterson
06.25.18 5:04 AM ET
When Allen King allowed the Farrell-Cooper Mining Company to mine coal from his land in 2003, he didn’t expect his 30 acres would end up looking more like the moon’s cratered surface than Oklahoma prairie.
“My whole property is destroyed,” said King. “I used to have flat grassland. Now I’ve got a mountain so steep you can’t even drive around to keep brush off, and a ditch so deep if a cow fell in you couldn’t get them out of it.”
He was promised his land would be returned to its original state but instead, like many landowners in the southeastern corner of Oklahoma, his property was left ruined by mines dug and abandoned by Farrell-Cooper. The Arkansas-based company has mined coal in the area for decades, running up numerous violations of federal reclamation laws in the process.
Now the landowners in this region who voted for President Trump overwhelmingly in 2016 must swallow the fact that the Trump administration—specifically, the Interior Department run by Ryan Zinke, represented in court by the Justice Department led by Jeff Sessions—has quietly dismissed violations that the last administration had levied against three of the company’s mines. The agreement comes after meetings involving several top Interior political appointees held specifically on the litigation in 2017, according to official calendars. The involvement of a number of political appointees, including many not in the department’s legal shop, in a long-standing, fairly low-profile legal dispute with a company is unusual, said former department insiders.
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I just gotta ask, are they going to vote in the OK primaries are they going to voted for a change---------------they knew better.................they were looking out for greed, their's and this "coal company' that didn't give a shit of shinola about being a partner.......................Say cowboy hows your water for your head of steers.....................and did you see the picture of that asshole Zinke, its not some white hat he wears it's a black hat, you know the bad guy ..............................keep voting there zippy for republican, go whine some more you made your bed now sleep in it......................
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
