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the review of the week ahead on r.t. far foxes in russia when it snows victory against hundreds of wildfires which of burnt down and religious in the country's central regions killed more than fifty people moscow has fallen emerge from the fray of home full smoke plumes of a terrible. japan has been remembering over eighteen thousand victims of a nuclear bomb which was dropped on that assaulted by the us sixty five years ago representatives from more than thirty countries attended the memorial ceremony he stressed that atomic weapons have no place in the world. in the u.s. many female inmates who kill their music on this scene the possibility of a ten by state governments activists all the the women who are protecting them lives should get a chance at freedom. well next to have

a multi award winning film which documents one of the biggest environmental and human rights catastrophes in american history. on the day of this interview the small creek less than one mile from their home flows black and i it's not normal that's coming from alabama komondor it's come from sorry pot . and i don't know. what to expect. out caught. maybe a few more years. if i don't deny help this went down tremendously. and i don't ever look to be helpful as i don't ever look at the site not bankers in vain if i can do it help me. but i 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 i want them to quit that. and.

i'll mop the 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 a coal 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 and one of the best sources of water anywhere in the world and maybe the best source of freshwater in 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 strip 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 mountains 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 and wiley has formulated a new plan for pennies a promise. our government stock will do it or a local school board and state school board will do it in a way it shows and 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 rich it's showing that our government should come to this and we can't get nothing

done for children to. be. we're going to watch the trolls on west virginia the worse we do you see you all know this is the rise awareness and raise money for no 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 us tighten our kids our future by our tomorrow he should die almost up and more are just marched for don't have them all. live at least. 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 that 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

callers he 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 throughout 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 a swipe 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 gentleman the president of the united states

i'm. looking to a better job in america one of these days we're going to be driving you know automobiles that are fuel differently and that's going to exciting times for america and we're just new technologies coming down and we can encourage those technologies. so conservation technological 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 go we need to use coal we've got a lot of it and we need to make sure that we. were the. way around this. for the past twenty years larry gibson and his family have been fighting to preserve their ancestral home place on kafer down outside charleston

west virginia and when i met with a call come in to file my property here me i'm not family members and they tell me that we don't give a damn about people and carry cholera we don't give a damn about what they want to have them now and all we care about is property we will make and and that was the dollar i would have been and that's how i know we were playing there and that this is a widespread and cultural reduction in using kids from massey coal ninety nine 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 cemetery and if one thousand nine hundred ninety eight and now on the trade arrests in eighteen years ago when i

started this i couldn't get to people to listen not even own family. and i don't know about turning the corner i'll press the knob on a.o.l. that was there was before the snowy there in my own mind. or just one of. the young ads of the day were never seen where i've seen the young as of the day were never see the mountains to with. no limits no boundaries for you could roam gibson uses the land a 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. do you people know 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 gibson and 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 all around and different things going on and. it's just to me. how i do. so on a public health forty zero goal to get to cold even into a graveyard. after filling out a dentist 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. and

imagine having to sign a release to go visit my family. out of hundreds which. the first waterhole i risk one man in my life was up to. the water i was not there now we've got six seven hundred foot high wall there now. my mama give me birth he did not give me life. well. you can get to the cemetery through their corner as your round. they used to be a road over here for. five for one right here. over here the other wanted. one i hear. your people are taking part in history is playing december third been here for two hundred seventy years. never had as many people wanted in the last hundred

fifty years last time on top of come through here they were and so when journalism kind. the superguy minister here i will tell you our house they sent to my. house and these people for a rainy fifth graders the first time when julian come here four years ago we had caves phones and had dates on him they're no longer here they're even men saying that we came and got him. and not the case and in order to down gonna say i'm johnson our psyche is we're just not going to hurt here for alone 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. 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.

nobody would stand on that. nobody would stand up to please please. stand up for lager and our flock i stand up for two hundred forty kids as well i'll represent old philip morris for elementary and i will stay on and i will fight and i will do whatever it takes to get something done for those children that day as who's left him no more it's al old you know that it. was

such. an. i think the league. will be. really. good. at it he said. well you know i couldn't talk to as many folks as i have along the way that a lot of folks shows for revenge a kind of a lot of folks on the issue we've raised a little money for the new school only issue in one of our goals for us is come here and hopefully make the santa bird and i feel that we have conflict all three

of them and i believe this goal for a lot of doors for a lot of people on this issue you know it's 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.

was a high. bar. and narrow. first three years for the rights of those children that i see it's raining outside right now are saying tell you about smudge's day i'm sorry it. doesn't mean anything to you we preach you know for three years of superman to narrate the people in these camps used to be accountable for that but what i want to do i'm going to do back to the back corner would be to clear this way because people got a good back and forth sure. there were more work. to do here in new school that the one you're broke your own playing here i'm telling you we are not budging there's more coming.

your. way around why your kids just might you know what they're really offering their bill to market every morning made in a whisper in the air while he's finding out worry wart results the day we want our kids to. share. wired to our kids there. for company and a coat for you. there on the wrong side of the mound. you know we are the cradle that bring their money out that. farmer where you could be took care of her build our children. for the state good old business you such as whether school should be. new schools should be built

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