It was also circulated by e-mail. Most of the statistics in the letter are incorrect, according to reports from the coal industry itself; others are seriously misleading. The text was most likely written by Bill Caylor, president of the Kentucky Coal Association; almost all of it is directly quoted from a column he published in the Lexington Herald-Leader and the Courier-Journal on January 7, 2008. TO: Honorable members of the Kentucky House of Representatives and Senate House Bill 164, the Stream Saver Bill, will seriously impact surface and underground mining in Kentucky by not allowing excess rock to be placed in streams that only flow when it is raining.1 Why focus only on coal? Our fills are no different than those needed for highway construction, real estate development, commercial development, other mineral extraction, and farming. People living in the flatlands take level land for granted. There is no level land outside the floodplain in Appalachia that hasn't been created by man.
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