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   Warner Crocker (warnercrocker@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 22:42:08 JST Warner Crocker

   Heckuva story.

   In rural Alabama, an underground mine threatens to blow up the homes above it. Officials don't care https://www.fastcompany.com/91146293/longwall-coal-mine-alabama-explosion

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     Paul Chernoff (paulc@mstdn.social)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 23:37:32 JST Paul Chernoff

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     @WarnerCrocker One legal problem for homeowners is a Supreme Court ruling from around 100 years ago. It involved someone selling the mining rights to their properly to a coal mining company and then the company destroying their house to access the coal. The SCOTUS ruled that the mining company had the right to destroy the house to get to the coal. I last read about this in the 80s but I think this makes legal recourse harder for the homeowners.

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     samiamsam (samiamsam@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 08:41:56 JST samiamsam

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     @WarnerCrocker keep voting for republicans