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long lucky i am a leg length . most of the carbon that we mine from across the the earth is millions of years old coal particularly interesting because per unit of energy generated coal actually it may be the cheapest fuel but it also releases the most carbon to be with her as carbon dioxide beginning in earnest with the development of the steam engine in the late seventeen early eighteen hundreds he wins begin to. extract fossil carbon from the earth's crust coal

oil natural gas even in the absence of humans over some time period it would be uplifted and subject to erosion and removal might return to the us here but those rates are tiny compared to the ability of humans to go out with large machines to deliver a large quantities of this material to the surface of the earth where it is burned in the useful generation of energy we have larger quitman it was introduced on surface minds about twenty five years ago here in washington which accounted for the the ability to recover coal seams that heretofore been unmanageable the use of dragline skylab manning seen step work an economic. and even physically impossible. without the use of that. many people twenty five years ago when the first company said to them bring

a blank line they were laughed at and they said there's no way in the world you can get a piece of equipment like that on the narrow ridges southern that plants and and they were determined through engineering abilities and persistence to make certain that it worked and and it hands. the command was clear. sailing to the. jews who still managed to total be.

legal. some. easy way. to get to lisa's. mom. and dad. sleeping lose. weight think these little children i'm sorry little children will be protected this night from treatment or your family can carry. a bandage you and the people on the battlefield no longer we're going to marry the same and i guess be able to find it from every car ever either a parent comes from airplanes or there are a number of years to forsake your dad your children to destroy your reaction lord yet it's such. a remarkable. place. we're going to take your hard earned coming. down.

the slum. sleep. it's. never the light down my family's i can't. believe you need to keep moving her desperate techniques give you any math if dismantling the community. once these lessons are gone there is no more of a life. there is no more west virginia it don't grow back it's not going come back i mean you know we have a politician get up on t.v. not long ago he said well the reason that jan saying it's going extinct or cost the deer are in. order bought this thousand acres. that's nothing. now the process mountaintop removal coal mine is an awesome display of coal

extraction engineering it is also quite simple once the site is a den of clear cutting begins next explosives are used to blast away the earth material holes and. then machinery completing massive shovels called dragon lines remove the overburden which is then deposited in adjacent valleys called valley fills mountaintop removal coal mining can bring down the elevation of a peak hundreds of feet sites are often thousands of acres in size but i will be sorry later actually rather than blacksburg and written. in the spring of two thousand and five a group of activists college students and local citizen conservation groups joined together to oppose the widespread increase in mountaintop removal mines throughout southern appalachian training the group called their campaign mountain justice summer there was going to be kind of this renewal of coal mining in tennessee and

some of those mines were going to be you know mountaintop removal mines. you know we were like hey this is you know now we're dealing with this issue too it's not just an issue in kentucky and west virginia like hey let's put something together and kind of up the level of opposition to this issue and let's help make this issue a national issue that everybody has to dealing with. the same what they're doing one. since some why is there a divide in our community. i've got nothing against free speech but when you come in here demanding people's jobs and closer schools day on. and i and all that you're lucky you don't get hurt. if somebody is in california or north carolina or new york city they're connected to mountaintop removal because they're turning on the lights. their opening strategy was to draw attention to a school situated close to

a mountaintop removal site in marsh fork west virginia. the mine is owned by massey energy america's fourth largest coal producer marsh fork elementary is a very very scary situation they have two point eight billion gallons of co slurry which is it's toxic it's toxic material it has arsenic. chromium there's a lot of really really bad chemicals in this sludge and there is a lake of two point eight billion gallons of coast laurie sitting behind this elementary school four hundred yards up on top of a mile. there's two hundred twenty eight kids in the school and the sophistication of engineering that goes into the construction of that is i suspect not duplicated in any other physical structure anywhere in in the world in one thousand nine hundred two buffalo creek there was this disaster where one of

these impoundments basically blew out millions of gallons of this nasty sludge and water went barreling down a small holler and killed one hundred twenty five people destroyed like four thousand houses a thousand cars you know hundreds of people were injured. besides the danger of flooding while you know the residents are concerned about the health effects posed to school children from the cold processing facility located directly behind marsh fork elementary so i said story hundred feet away three hundred fifty feet away the neighbor sits directly caused the river and you got serious problems over you got the magnetite you got the walk you got the ammonia they use this is bad. they use diesel fuel in there they mix all this stuff together we've got. all the time. you've got. problems occur more more down or there's.

clamor for you to a lot of t.v. ads. in a lot of people like look all the time it is draining all the time the kids will come home with blisters and little tiny blisters the size of a painted all when they're mild. but not everyone shares their concerns in the small community where many residents work for the coal industry that surrounds them accountable and if i was scared i would not let her go there and she will be in first grade she was in kindergarten last year played on the playground three pounds a day and more like college clothes and unlike us that she never came home dirty with or you know any thickness and i've manacle records to prove that she has not had anything other than a common cold up like any other child. we. didn't.

see great in the local schools and government officials you know action on improving safety at marsh work elementary one of the granddaughter kayla attends march for commentary launches the pennies a promise campaign to raise six million dollars to build a new school and so with us here. because that. is the side that. is your money. money. money that you want to build against. because i don't like. to start the pennies or promise campaign wiley and his granddaughter taylor presented governor with over four hundred dollars in pennies he put in orders no collector. we'd like to see the governor we have some money to present him. the story of

a. step down from kids everywhere regular to our governor good to see you we have a young lady here from marsh fork elementary in. the south and. let's. face it i don't see. people going to start. at the schools. or you going to the center. and it gets. you it. has a little gable here for you but it's this is our campaign ok. now we're let me just you know so. i know we worked on this some we talked about this for a time but the school yes sir i'm at the school where we at with the local board of education start all over that smack up a whole lot we're not going get them you took a foreigner to protect the way from the west we're going to use it women has its own tell you today ok you know what we're not going to do what we've been doing you

put a price on our children here. in our state you put a price this is not an environmental issue this is a little human being i have tried for two years to work with you on this and i've been ignored and i don't mean to put you in a soft spot here but enough is enough enough it's enough we need to get this took care of your business what these coal companies that is your business your politics this is not about politics we're asking people for money all of this country today is our official announcement of it so it's just it's just going to stay just we're going to raise five to ten million dollars it's going to happen we want you to be a part of this we want you to support our efforts we want to help you do a better job and i appreciate i don't mean to be upset and progressive but if this was your child would you not be well you know that enough you know and she's beautiful would say what we should we care about our child. down there and there are serious problems with a lot of issues and i know you're aware of there's intimidation going on there

a lot of intimidation a teacher the spoke out last year now he's been told he better shot you going to do it how do everything in my heart and what that means is i do everything in my god god but that we got a. journalist jeff goodell is book big coal the dirty secret behind america's energy future explores the history and use of coal in america and throughout the world like many americans i didn't even realize that we still burn coal you know i thought coal was something that went out with top hats and corsets i thought that electricity was just something that flowed down from a golden bowl in the sky i never gave any thought to where it came from the idea that coal produces fifty percent of electricity in america never occurred to me so i went down to west virginia and i didn't know what to expect their memory i first knew i was driving outside of charleston and i saw the boom on one of the big drag line swinging above the hills and i pulled off the road and i hiked up through the woods to the top of this hill and i got this view down into this strip mine and it

was just like hell had opened up before me. the money and the coal mining has always gone to the top and been siphoned out by the the owners essentially whether their corporations are called barons like don blankenship it's a commodity business every penny they have to spend for safety for wages for health care or anything like that is money that they see coming directly out of their pocket and you know the history of coal mining it's very clear on this there's no it's not a subtle thing you know this is an industry that views workers as disposable and views the landscape as disposable and it's all about getting the coal out of the ground as quickly as.

oh the tools never mind and love just go with you bottom yourself. and if you start out into madness you had to have those two they didn't let you get a loan created it company still. for about three plus put it this way love your coke head company stores they hard g. you lived near kochi if you worked for them they didn't want a kitchen some miles of store. and one of the others all matters bad they still owed to company store you couldn't pitch it won't pay mo. he made company money scrip don't price it wasn't good it was company store i got an updated script it's worth more today than it was made. all right. usually healthy though you could make more two dolls day right here sell the kit trick which are so use middle today come and check to. give you

a hand crawley's stamp you number on what you got your car loaded with cold somewhere on this car you would i want to check to see and be a mule driver lead times i'd be a young boy back to didn't stay in school he would pull you to cohen here drop it off unhook piecemeal from it come to the phone. right now it real easy to loud rock him with you cold who show your life you got a water tank in a slavic oh. no little water drip in your career bud see it right there. and does a smear of good but it works pretty good. oh my. problem almost. oh yes you know look at the history of our area faithfully they was big communities down and they were skate rings big company stores everything off the painful i mean company housed all down that river our stuff and set their.

our schools are good because there's no like all the stores were or close and nothing's coming back these are people with this coal company in their tie can take an entire week and never put it is all going to go there really west virginia broke in the big go on the road with. five years. top removal site moved into the head waters of the stream that runs by my home in the past five years i've been flooded seven times there's been about five acres of my property it's washed away into the stream down below where i live. my property has been completely devastated devalued there's no way i could say one relocate my property it's worth at the mine

company had the option of getting in touch with me and letting me know what was coming at me and they did it and they trapped me and my kids have a flooding hollow and basically trashed our lives now when someone does that to you you don't go along with it you have no choice but to go against i go home to it i live in the middle of this why. because it's ok it's ok that me he'll be away from southern west virginia is in middle of this hail so am i ask my son. roan. i don't know nobody nuttin i don't own species me in jobs i don't own jobs and if i thank god i do their day and roam across appalachians coal fields mining jobs are vital to local economies my husband us work with my essay for just eight or nine years

and they all just we really appreciate last day that's where we get our money in that you know our way of living but traditional deep mining requires more workers than mountaintop removal since nine hundred fifty the total number of mining jobs has steadily decreased from approximately one hundred twenty thousand to less than twenty thousand today over the same period coal production has steadily increased many coalfield residents are also concerned about another byproduct of coal production slurry pons. the slurry impalements the way that we dispose of the refuse that comes from the cleaning of coal which is literally nothing but dirt and rock coming that's what you're separating from the coal so that's what you're disposing of it's not toxic it's not you know as people many people would like you to believe that there's something only it's the indigenous

dirt and rock that is caught up in the coal seam and that natural material includes mercury lead arsenic and a whole suite of heavy metals which as long as they're in that rock you can drink the water because they'll be underground they'll be they will not be exposed to oxygen that if you don't disturb them they will not be brought into solution and you can literally some of the best water we have in west virginia comes out of a coal seam but when you disturb that rock and start grinding it up in the fine particles adding a whole bunch of chemical additives to it to get it to separate the coal from the other inorganic materials then you come up with this which is brew material that you would want any exposure to it all we know almost nothing about it i've got a database now has fourteen samples worldwide of coal slurry that are in the public domain six of these are from the post martin county you know the the the biggest

environmental disaster in the southeastern united states six a fals representing what that material that entered our rivers and streams really is which i find rather posterous three hundred nine million gallons taking over fifty miles of a major river system a spill bigger than the exxon valdez we took six samples the occurrence that happened in kentucky. was simply one where you had one built over old. underground ones and they gave way in the bottom and that's what happened with the structure itself to. go county west virginia within sight of massey energy c.e.o. don blankenship home carmelita brown has been battling for clean water. twenty some years ago. and water turned black and black spray and asked are the harness has been got up and asked and asked me what was wrong take a man hey said when he looked at it he said my god he said that's close laurie.

we went and looked at fifteen wells. sent samples off to the laboratory got the testing results back and did some analysis on those results and it was pretty compelling that we needed to do more research down there i've never seen water quality that poor. it's pretty good compared to what it was this morning these documents from the west virginia department of natural resources researched by mountain just to summer volunteers are permits for coal slurry injections that took place in the early one nine hundred eighty s. at the slurry impoundment located approximately two miles above carmelita brown's home this permit shows that over two hundred eight million gallons of slurry was injected in one thousand nine hundred eighty four and nine hundred eighty five this permit describes three injections in one thousand nine hundred four into an abandoned underground mind at the rate of six hundred gallons per minute the basis

for. injecting. coal slurry and other things other wastes underground as an e.p.a. one thousand nine hundred eighty sed study called underground injection control all that's the oxymoron of the century underground injection control and what control do we have when we inject something underground i have no idea where it goes. if i if i ask the energy was to pull out the moral for some reason went bankrupt or whatever all the story pods you know who is responsible for that count we got the paperwork we know the calories are responsible for the clean up of the story. nobody wanted to help us nobody want nobody was concerned and it wasn't only made it was oh my my down this road well the patients i see from are all have significant medical problems that other people don't have. a greater number of

people of all timers disease old timers disease memory loss i've seen a great number of people who have numbness and tingling of their arms and legs which indicates a heavy metal. accumulation seen a fair amount of just built ill health my next door neighbors on a kidney dialysis another neighbor a man as is his last kidney headache had to have a kidney transplant i have problems with my kidneys the timea water exposes them to many types of metals cadmium among others causes can the damage. now several people not necessary has lost babies i have carried them six months and have maybe still more. wealthy british style it's time to. go.

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