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I wish you the best on this one.

Contact the state Attorney's General Office to start your research. Try consulting legal aid and also a law schools legal aid clinic. Usually the lawyer's first half hour or full hour, with you, is not billed, find out There are a number of you; get together. You may have a potential class action law suit. (unlikely) , but definitely worth looking into.

Remember this old English case, which may be good law in Ky,. The rule in Rylands and Fletcher, it could be valuable jurisprudence if the company cocks up and deleteriously affects your adjacent lands.

Get moving stat and good luck.

Dan the Answers-Man.

Give my regards to Mr. Peabody's Coaltrain in Muhlenburg County

If you do not own the mineral rights under your house and land, there is little you can do to stop them.

The mining company has no doubt assembled enough of a block of mineral rights to warrant the huge investment it takes to start a deep mine. They don't like to go around in-holdings.

You can possibly challenge them on environmental issues, but that just may delay them a little while.

Check your home owner's insurance and get a mine subsidence rider.

Sorry, but the coal company usually holds all the aces.