let's take a look at the main stories we have in the south. moscow is preparing for war small to take hold of the capital after a brief rain but just over a couple of days west point hundreds of forest and peat forest continue to burn crosses central russia while the ongoing drought has also forced a grain export ban should supplies been drawn up. flying apart from astarte naval bases across russia and the victims of the course submarine try to contain the incident all one hundred eighteen on board were killed and the families say this still struggling grief. and me would not seek case has been played at the court this time the dispute is between two function labels a german a close friend tried soon and spoofed its designs in an attempt to expose another

factory and as the united states. now it's being described as an environmental disaster in the making a controversial mining project in the us and there's a top removal is a subject of an award winning film next to nazi. on the day of this interview the small creek less than one mile from their home flows black and that's not normal that's coming from an abandoned home odds are it's come from sorry pot. i don't know. what to expect. out caught. maybe a few more years. and my health this went down tremendously. and i don't ever look to be healthy as i don't have all of the signs now thanks are the bane of i can do help me. that are only thing i want now i want

a good moral i want them to quit pump and are quitting jade and whatever they're doing when i want them to quit that. and. it's all mopped rebated. for the last twenty years. it's been hard. you can't make it without good water. from the moody. blues. currently there are over one hundred forty billion gallons of coal slurry contained in more than one hundred lb ments in west virginia alone the total quantity of coal slurry in the rest of southern appalachians is no. one december twenty second two thousand and eight acall ash impoundment at the tennessee valley authorities kingston fossil plant failed when an earthen dike

broke spilling over one point one billion gallons of coal ash sludge over three hundred acres. coal ash sludge has waste created from the burning of coal at the kingston coal plant it is believed to contain toxic compounds including arsenic and mercury. the tennessee valley authority estimates the cost of the cleanup over eight hundred twenty five million dollars this spill is ten times larger than the exxon valdez spill in alaska and is believed to be america's largest environmental disaster to date with throwing away the next generation's most valuable resource and that is water one of the best sources of water anywhere in the world and maybe the best source of fresh water and proximity to one of the world's largest fastest growing populations. you know with all the and all the lawsuits and all the carrying on that goes on in the in the

press and you know the vanity fair's and. u.s. news and world reports and all at that where the authors are warning people to believe that that we're absolutely scripts in appalachia down to nothing. in order to get the mineral is patently untrue it's patently untrue when you look around at the forested melton's that we have a recent environmental impact statement from the e.p.a. estimates over eight hundred square miles of mountains of already been destroyed this includes the permanent destruction of over four hundred fifty individual mountain summits across the region the report also indicates the permanent loss of over twelve hundred miles of mountain streams. although federal regulations for mine reclamation require that mountaintop removal sites be returned to their original contour these mines are routinely granted wavers mined areas are typically

graded and then hydro seeded with less bodies or grass which clings to the compacted shale and rock that now makes up the topsoil nature builds soil for free but she creates the soil very slowly and so you're talking about thousands of years to go from something like a rock mass that has essentially no soil just a very thin covering up to generate a few centimeters of soil you're talking about hundreds to thousands and tens of thousands of years continuing at its present rate the projected loss from mountaintop removal mining is one point four million acres in the next decade an area equal in size to the state of delaware. by the summer of two thousand and six at wylie has formulated a new plan for pennies a promise. our government do it or a local school board state school board and do it in a way if you know and parents and grandparents it's up to you to get this job there

were the kids you know we're going to money for school one way or another. like we are going to school in our community and. it's because it's showing that our government should come to this if we can't get nothing done for children. the. we're going to watch the charleston west virginia the worst do you see you all know this is the rise awareness and raise money for new school and it also opens a lot of doors of applying to chapman in our communities as far as mountaintop removal what it's doing to those in in in the mining industry to our community this is a perfectly viable one what it's actually doing to our children the governor made a statement our kids are our future they are tomorrow he should die almost up and for our jihad on march fourth don't have them all. live at least for.

burning of coal those for over a century has been one of the most deadly things that and humans have done it through the air around them even after one hundred years of burning coal and after one hundred years of so-called improvement of air quality according to the american lung association twenty four thousand people a year still die prematurely from air pollution from coal plants in the united states almost forty percent of the carbon dioxide emissions come from coal one of the things that has to happen. is that the politicians the leaders of the administration as well as congress state legislators and administrations in the states all those leaders have got to finally say ok we want to call in the two thousand election and west virginia was widely credited with giving president bush

the margin he needed to take the oval office was the first time the west virginia had gone republican in something like seventy years and guess what's going to happen come november we're going to carry the state of west virginia thank the coal industry was widely credited for giving bush west virginia so it was no secret that he had a large debt to pay to the coal industry and they made sure he paid it through out mine safety throughout the rollback of regulations on dirty power plants through a variety of places he essentially stocked all the regulatory agencies with with former coal industry lobbyists or executives by two thousand and one the bush administration made of white wording changing the clean water act designating waste as bill this wording change cleared the way for the expansion of mountaintop removal mining throughout southern appalachians. on january twenty second of two

thousand and two president bush returned to west virginia it is such a wonderful day for us and for west virginia to host a special me with those with a special bond to our state please and gentlemen the president of the united states i'm. we can do a better job in america one of these days we're going to be driving you know automobiles that are fueled differently. and that's going to exciting times for america which is new technologies coming down and we can encourage those technologies so conservation. take a logical development got to be an integral part of energy folks we need more supply you know workers welcome back here in the back and he said i'm real repairing a machine that digs for coal we need to use coal we got a lot of it and we need to make sure that we.

wait around. for the past twenty years larry gibson and his family have been fighting to preserve their ancestral home place on k. for down outside charleston west virginia and when i met with the coal company to fight on my property here me and my family members and they tell me that we don't give a damn about people who carry cholera we don't give a damn about the people on top of a mountain all we care about is profit we are making and that was the dollar it was our body and the. know we were playing there and it is a vice president cultural reduction and using kids from massey coal one thousand nine hundred three told me this gibson created the stanley heirs foundation refusing to sell his family's fifty plus acres to coal companies before mountaintop removal began his family cemetery was surrounded by mountain ridges today the family cemetery looks out on reclaimed mountaintop removal sites eighteen years

ago when i came back and it took me for you to clear my family's cemetery and in ninety nine to now on the third arrest eighteen goal when i started this i couldn't get to people to listen now even my own family. now know have i turned a corner how crest of the knob one day or that was there was before the snowy there in my own mind. the lord is. the young of the day were never seen where i've seen the young as of the day were never seen the mountains the earth. no limits no boundaries for you could roam gibson uses the land of capered mountain to educate the public about the effects of mountaintop removal one of the biggest questions people asked me if i had a picture of the mountain before was destroyed. here paper no why should you take

a picture of a mountain for it's going to be here forever. day by day the seventy five hundred acres of active mountaintop removal mine continue to encircle his property. another family cemetery sits across the ridge on the active mine site although regulations require that family members have access to these cemeteries requests are often not he's lee granted on memorial day of two thousand and six keeps him in a group of supporters make a trip to the cemetery i want a day we're going to go on the mine site at the cemetery over there and we get to how lord around and different things going on and i still to me a safety. zone and probably count forty or gold it could get to cold even under a graveyard. after filling out a den of occasion and release forms the group is permitted to enter the mine site in a one and a half mile hike to the family cemetery. i

. didn't mention and just sign a release to go visit my family. i did so with you. the first waterhole i respond then in my life was up then how i. the water not there now we've got six seven hundred foot high wall there and. my mama give me birth. in the light. well. you can get to the cemetery through there are going to go round. there used to be a road over here. for one right here. over here the other one. one i

hear. your people are taking part in history is playing the cemetery been here for two hundred seventy years and never had as many people on it in the last hundred fifty years and ice time on top of come through here they were and so gentle and so kind. the superguy minister here i will tell you our house they sent to my. shows and these people for a rainy fifth graders the first time when julian come here four years ago we had caves phones and had baits on and they're no longer here if they're even in saying that we came and got any. and not the case and in order to down are going to say alan johnson alongside his words has not been heard here for a loan long time in mid august of two thousand and six the west virginia department of environmental protection revoked a permit to massey energy to expand its plant and marsh fork elementary by building a second coal silo the d.p.p.

determined that the second coal silo was placed outside the permitted boundary of three hundred feet from the school after maps of the preparation plan were found to be an accurate. that. nobody would stay on that. nobody would stand up to his plate. i stand up for my grandmother fly i stand up to her forty kids as well i'll represent old philip morris for elementary and i will stay and and i will fight and i will do whatever it takes to

get something done for these children that they issues now who know more as i'll hold on to that it. was such. an. he was. handling the. little. nobody. would believe. it if he said. well no i couldn't talk to as many folks i have along the way that

a lot of folk shows for revenge a kind a lot of folks on the issue we've rice a little money for the new school only issue in one of our goals for us is to come here and hopefully make a stand a bird and i feel that we have copied all three of them and i believe this call for a lot of doors for a lot of people on this issue notice very important for me to walk on march fourteenth two thousand and seven the state board of surface mining overturned a west virginia department of environmental protections ruling that denied massey energy a permit to build a second coal silo behind the school this decision cleared the way for the expansion of massey energy's coal processing facility two days later a coalition of citizen conservation groups including mountain just a summer activists returned to west virginia governor joe manchin is office. for her. record. that.

god. will. tell you and the real. first three years for the rights of those children that i see it's raining outside right now our city has a best smudges day i'm sorry. does that mean anything to you we preach you know for three years in a soup never to marry the people in these camps used to be accountable for at least what i want to ask you. i'm going to do back to the back corner we need to clear this way because people got a good back and forth forward. i'm sure more work. to

get a new school that's the one you're broke your i ain't playing here i'm telling you we're not budging there's more coming. your. way around the higher good this might yeah what you're offering their field will markedly formating a whisper in the air while he's trying to worry wart result today we want our kids to. share. wired to our kids and there. are girls day in the code field. there on the wrong side of them i don't. know we are the cradle that bring their money out of them out of the little farm where you need to be took care of her build her children. for the state

good job in this you such as whether school should be the. new school should be built a decision goes first we have to look. i've heard the low. the school board with the decision on a new school that march forward before a vote of the people of raleigh. so they can determine the final outcome from themselves so i. know all i could i hope that corby. heard from her be heard. if. you. can hear if you would read and may say. who. are serving there who. write that letter i think.

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