We now have elderly ladies receiving minimal Black Lung benefits for their husbands who died too young. Now, big business, with government backing, plants grass on the silt banks in the name of progress. They sell it back to us at inflated prices so we can build our homes and businesses in a futile effort to escape the poverty left to us. They tell us we will have jobs, but they pay very little. They say we will be lucky to have jobs.
History repeats itself.
Big business creates roads with bulldozers and blames 43 ATVs. They tell us we will be lucky to have jobs. They own all of our land and watershed. In the end, that fine is the least of the prices we will pay.