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Coal from the Cumberland Plateau has been dying a slow death for a long time. Long before Trump, heck all the way back to the 1980s. The coal is too high in sulfur to comply with stricter environmental controls (thanks to Acid Rain regulations) and the highest quality and easiest to extract seams have already been depleted.
I know because my family were coal miners. I grew up falling asleep listening to the sounds of coal truck Jake Breaks coming down the mountain and L&N trains loaded with car after car of coal heading down the valley. Now the trucks no longer run and the Sequatchie Valley RR (successor to the relevant L&N lines) had their tracks pulled up decades ago. Long loooong before Trump
I remember for decades when we'd come up to cokkeville to vist the grands, crossing Spencer/Cagle Mountain we call it you would see all the strip coal mining on a particular stretch. Then they graded it out, grew it back over and sold it of in 5-10 acre parcels. The forest re-growth is now about 50/50. This was like a 50+- year rollover. Skyline Coal Mine.
 
Why do we have to bring Biden into it? People need to learn that if their Bible is true….Bidens sins are not going to cover up Trumps.
People need to learn to pull the beam out of their own eye before they see the speck in another's eye.
 
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I remember for decades when we'd come up to cokkeville to vist the grands, crossing Spencer/Cagle Mountain we call it you would see all the strip coal mining on a particular stretch. Then they graded it out, grew it back over and sold it of in 5-10 acre parcels. The forest re-growth is now about 50/50. This was like a 50+- year rollover. Skyline Coal Mine.
I remember that one well. On your right off Hwy 111 comingvup from Dunlap, right?

Haven’t been by there in a while. Glad it is at least growing back some. That was one MASSIVE dragline
 
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