Frankfort, KY — The Franklin Circuit Court today issued two long-awaited orders rejecting settlement deals between the Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet and Frasure Creek Mining arising from the coal company’s thousands of violations of the Clean Water Act from 2008 through 2011. In extraordinarily vigorous language, Judge Phillip Shepherd said that due to the coal company’s actions, “The inherent danger of the violations at issue here to the environment is impossible to determine based on Frasure Creeks’ wholesale abdication of its monitoring and reporting responsibilities, and the cabinet’s inability to fully investigate the environmental harm that is likely to have occurred.”
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 03:48:09 +0000
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