Sierra Club files notice to sue Hazard mine company

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Source: Lexington Herald-Leader

The Sierra Club has filed a federal "notice of intent to sue" ICG of Hazard because of selenium being discharged from Thunder Ridge mine in Leslie County into Lower Bad Creek.

The environmental group, in a letter sent to ICG, contends that selenium discharges are not allowed by the mine's permit. The group also says the specific conductivity — a measure of minerals dissolved in water — of streams flowing from the Thunder Ridge mine has been affected adversely.

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"We will investigate promptly the matters asserted in the notice of intent," he wrote in an e-mail. "However, we believe that this move is yet another attack in the Sierra Club's aggressive effort to disrupt the mining of our most abundant natural resource — coal — and to interfere with those businesses who operate in Appalachia and employ thousands of workers in the region."

High concentrations of selenium can cause mutations and reproductive failure of fish and other aquatic life. At higher levels, it can cause health problems in humans.


Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/2010/12/07/1555194/sierra-club-files-notice-to-sue.html

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1. My water starts in those hills

The ' Friends of Coal ' should be a hate group.