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first. next on our team part one of a multi award winning film which documents one of the biggest environmental and human rights catastrophes in american history. i am lucky a leg loose places good luck. sled slowly i am led to a leg of the leg.

or long. a. good lead long mum and leg. leg . most of the carbon that we mine from across to the earth is millions of years old coal particularly interesting because per unit of energy generated coal actually is maybe the cheapest fuel but it also releases the most carbon to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide beginning in earnest with the development of the steam engine in

the late seventeen early eighteen hundreds him and began to need an 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 removeable and might return to the atmosphere 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 and in the useful generation of energy. we have larger quitman that was introduced on surface mines about twenty five years ago here in washington which accounted for the ability to recover coal seams that heretofore been manacled the use of dragline styli all that mining seems that were an economic. and even

physically impossible. without the use of that many people twenty five years ago when the first company said to them buying a bright line they were laughed at and they said there's no way in the world you can get a peaceful quitman like that on the narrow ridges of southern appalachia and and they were determined through engineering abilities and persistence to make certain that it worked and and it has. its. financial cliff. when things are going.

to be. easy going. to sleep in staying. in debt. and me seeing the film saying moon. wait but i think these little children are little children will be protected this night from dream and are your family come get me. did you lambie it because. then they might. again be able to cover it from every car and from either parent cause them to. come here or think back to our children to destroy your lower.

half of my. life. going to. sleep. it's. never played out my family's out. of the needs to keep their victim needs community mad if dismantling the community. one sees. there is no more appalachian. there is no more west virginia it don't grow back. it's not going to come back i mean you know we had a politician get up on t.v. not long ago he said well the reason that jan saying it's going extinct or cost a dear are in. order to styles an acre of mountaintop removal site that's not the

garage sale process mountaintop removal coal mine is an awesome display of coal extraction engineering it is also quite simple once a site is a den of five clear cutting begins next explosives are used to blast away the earth material holes and. then machinery completing massive shovels called drag 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 by hundreds of feet sites are often thousands of acres in size but i think the it's our latest action rather than blacksburg and really. 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 just a 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 demand and people's jobs and clothes are schools they own and i and all that you're lucky you don't get hurt her but. 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 why 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 nine hundred seventy 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 coal processing facility located directly behind marsh fork elementary so i say it's three hundred feet away three hundred fifty feet away the neighbor sits directly caused the river and you've got serious problems over you got the magnetite you got the walk you got the ammonia that they use this is bad and bad stuff they use diesel fuel in there they mix all this stuff

together you've got bad headaches all the time. you've got. problems occur more and more down or i mean there's. clamor for you a lot of kids. in a lot of people likely all the time just drawing and all the time the kids will come home with blisters and their mile little tiny blisters the size of opinionated 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 if i wasn't comfortable enough 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 times a day and more like college players and unlike us that she never came home dirty with powder 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've. been . frustrated local school and government officials you know action on improving safety at marsh work elementary while 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. it is that little. but inside they're going to take your money. no money down. the money that you want to build against. because i don't like. to start the pennies or promise campaign wiley and his granddaughter kayla presented governor with over four hundred dollars in pennies he couldn't orders never collected.

we'd like to see the governor we have some money to present him. as a story of a story to. step down kids everywhere regular doing government good to see if we have a young lady here from our fork elementary in. the south in. which. case i don't see. people going to start. school some school. or you going to the center. and. it's. ok one has a little give what you have already but this is our campaign ok. now we're let me just you know so far as i know we worked on this some we talked about it the fourth time but the school yes or at the school were we out with the local board of education start all over sure that smack up

a whole lot we're not going to get them for north to protect away from what's 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 see it. in our state put a price this is not an environmental issue this is a little human vein 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 on the spot here but enough is enough enough it's enough we need to get this took care of your business what these coal companies it 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 in the stages 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 the 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 there's intimidation going on there a lot of intimidation teacher spoke out last year now he's been told he better start with you we don't want to do anything now do everything in my heart that i want that that means that i do everything in my guy because of that we've got to. learn english geoff goodell's 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

dragline 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 these.

hotels near the mountain love disco with you bottom yourself. and if you start now to matters you had to have those two they don't let you get a loan created it company still. for about three presses put it this way lloyd your coke head company stores they hard you lived near kochi if you work for them they did want to pitch in some i also store. and one of the others all matters data is still owed to a company store you could pick just won't pay mo. even had company money scrip and or place it was that it was a company store i got an updated script it's worth more today than it was made. right. usually until the you know you could make more to dolls day right here sell

the kit trick the merchant so use middle today killed and check to. give you a handful of these stamp you number of what you got your car loaded with cold somewhere on this car you would i want to check to see i'd be a mule driver lead times i'd be go on board back to didn't stay in school he would pull leave to go in here drop it off unhook piecemeal from it come to the phone. right now it really easy loud rock him with you cold who show your life you've got a water tank in a slot. of a little water drip in your career bud see it right there. and does the spirit is good but it works pretty good. oh. oh it's. oh it's you know look at the history of our area faithfully they was big

communities now today with scant rings big company stores everything painful i mean the company housed all down that river our stuff and set their. our schools are good because there is no money all the stores are or close and nothing is coming back these are people with this coal company in their tie can take and tie can never put it is all going to go there really west virginia broke in goal and the big gone there with. five years. top removal site moved into the head waters of the string that runs from a home in the past five years i've been flooded seven times there's been about five acres 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 on 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 in. 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 maybe he'll be away from southern west virginia is in middle of this tale so am i ask my son. rome. i don't know nobody nutten i don't know 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 or by the local economies my husband us forthwith must say for just eight or nine years will. we really appreciate massive that's where we get our money 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 will 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 right out of a coal seam but when you disturb that rock and start grinding it up in a 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 apples representing what that material that our rivers and streams really is which i find rather prosperous three hundred nine million gallons of 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

sprite and asked are the hollowness screamin in math has been got up and asked and asked me what was wrong take a man and he said when he looked at eight said my god he said that's close laurie. we went and looked at fifteen wells. said the 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 had never seen water quality is that poor. pretty good compared to what it was this morning these documents from the west virginia department of natural resources researched by mountain just to some are 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 four and nine hundred eighty five dispersement describe slurry 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 ending was to pull out the moral for some reason went bankrupt or whatever all the story pods you know who is responsible for the county we got the paperwork we know the calories are responsible for the cleanup of the floor. nobody wanted to help us nobody want nobody was concerned and it wasn't only made

it was oh my neighbors that down this road well the patients i see for all have significant medical problems that other people don't have. a greater number of people with all timers disease old timers disease memory loss i've seen a great number of people who have numbness and tingling of their arms or legs which indicates a heavy metal. accumulation seen a fair amount of just ill health my next door neighbors on a kidney dialysis another neighbor a man as is has lost a kidney had 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 kidney to which. now several people not necessary has lost babies i have carried them six months and have maybe stillborn.

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