A class action will be filed in regards to endangerment, neglect, and political wrongdoing.

Email comments and become a plaintiff when the time comes.
We are especially wanting to hear from anyone in direct eye shot or within 2500 feet of any proposed drilling , reservoir, or obvious work site. This includes if your driveway accesses any road traveled continuously by coal haulers and heavy equipment.

If you own a pond of any size it is important that you have your water tested “Now” . The runoffs that comes down from the mountains effected will certainly be deadly to any aquatic environment and stock.

Please email comments and geographic position to HK@AlabamaPrivateDetective.com or call between 8am. and 11am. daily. at 205-237-0106

Be a plaintiff,….Not A Victim.
Attend the meetings and show your support.

I am upset and concerned that there are no elected officials willing to add their voices to ours.

They may show up at a meeting (looks good/accomplishes nothing), but will they write a letter to the Alabama Surface Mining Commission???

And tell them their constituents are concerned that:

The water we drink may be subject to contamination;

The coal operation will put coal dust in the air we breathe and we will develop lung diseases;

Our barely maintained roads will deteriorate even faster;

Our insurance rates will rise;

Our wells could go “bad”;

Our properties could be flooded with a toxic sludge from flooding that only “Mother Nature” can foretell;

Our properties will decrease in value,

Our river, which has been slowly recovering from the last mining operation, will suffer degradation and loss of aquatic life again,

Neighbors, our opportunities to have an impact on the permitting of this proposed mining operation is slim. ADEM has already told us we are too late for them to listen to any of our concerns. The Alabama Surface Mining Commission (ASMC) will hold one public meeting to accept comments and concerns which they are required by law to address. Here is what you can do:

Mail a letter addressed to:

Alabama Surface Mining Commission
PO BOX 2390
Jasper, AL. 35502-2390
Permit # P-3931

If any of the concerns above ring true, describe them in detail and ask the ASMC how they are going to protect you in regards to these concerns. Send a copy of your letter to them and to these other public officials:

Chairman of Commission
Probate Judge David Standridge
220 2nd Ave E., Rm 106
Oneonta, AL 35121

District 1:
David Cochran
220 2nd Ave E., Rm 106
Oneonta, AL 3512

District 2:
Robert Bullard
220 2nd Ave E., Rm 106
Oneonta, AL 35121

District 3:
Tom Ryan
220 2nd Ave E., Rm 106
Oneonta, AL 35121

District 4:
Waymon Pitts
220 2nd Ave E., Rm 106
Oneonta, AL 35121
(205) 625-3473

Administrator Chris Green (205) 625-4160

City of Oneonta Mayor Darryl Ray
202 3rd. Avenue East
Oneonta, AL 35121

City of Rosa
Mayor Andy Ellis
62 Ellis Dr.
Oneonta Alabama 35121.


City of Cleveland
Mayor Larry Longshore
Cleveland Town Hall
62732 U. S. Highway 231
Cleveland, AL 35049-3669

City of Blountsville
Mayor Randy Millwood
Blountsville Town Hall
10017 Lee St. W.
Blountsville, AL 35031
Phone: (205) 429-2406

Bring a signed copy of your letter to the public meeting which will be held at the Frank Green Building (ASMC will publish meeting date soon). Come to this meeting with every friend , relative, and neighbor you can lasso. (You can bet MCoal will try to pack this meeting with their beneficiaries). If you can’t attend the meeting, send a signed copy to us:

“Concerned Citizens about the Rosa Mine”
PO Box 1133
Blountsville, AL 35031

We will see that your letter (hopefully with a big stack of letters) is recorded and becomes a formal record of comments that the ASMC must acknowledge and respond to.
If our elected officials won’t stand up for us- we know what we have to do- elect different leaders!

Jerry Gordon-Hellman
Blountsville, Al. 35031

A CALL TO ACTION

Blount county is about to be changed from the home we know unless we act quickly and directly.

The Canadian based MCoal corporation is seeking a permit from the Alabama surface mine commission to ravage and rape our County, making 3000+ acres a coal mine. This foreign corporation has no interest in our State, County, towns, area citizens, or our serenity.

The majority of land owners who have sold their mineral rights live outside Blount County as well.

There are NO GOOD REASONS to allow this permit be issued.

There are however many, many reasons to stop the issuance of this permit.

They include health, safety, water quality, destruction of forest, both air and noise pollution, dumping of coal waste-water and toxins, decrease of property values, damage to county roads, and the negative change in the quality of life. THESE ARE JUST A FEW!

I pray and urge each concerned citizen to GET INVOLVED. Allowing Blount County to become a “coal mine” will affect us all. Write down your specific concerns and objections and voice them at the Mining

Commission hearing which will soon be announced.

For any questions you may have you may contact ” A Concerned

Citizen about the Rosa Mine” at 205-625-6206

Stephanie & Harvey Palmer
Cleveland, AL