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the weeks mean stories and today's news from our moscow is again envelop in smog as firefighters battle russel's rampant wildfires that have left over three thousand homeless but there is progress on merchants who services say the area affected by the burning forests has been reduced by two thirds in a week. and over thirty nations have marked the sixty fifth anniversary of america's atomic attack on the japanese city of nagasaki but the a bombs were reflect the legacy is still felt by its victims eight hundred thousand people were killed in the explosion at the end of world war two. also on our team just as campaigners claimed women convicted of killing their abusive partners in california are having their parole holds down by the political ambitions of state governors they say the women acted in self defense after suffering from domestic violence.

next one of america's biggest ecological catastrophe but one you may not have heard of what makes it more shocking is that it's man made and forcing entire communities to abandon their homeland. 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 an abandoned home on drugs come from sorry pot. i don't know. what takes bait. are caught. and maybe a few more years. i'm not helpless went down tremendously. and i don't ever look to be helpful as i don't ever look at the side and i don't think there's anything i can do feel. 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 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 pound mints 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 concluding 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 fresh water and proximity to one of the world's largest fastest growing populations. you know with all the hubbub 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 in the u.s.

news and world reports and all at that where the authors are warning people to believe that they were 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 melton's that we have a recent environmental impact statement from the e.p.a. estimates over eight hundred square miles of mountains have 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 ed wiley has formulated a new plan for pennies a promise. our government or a local school board 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 for 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 we can't get nothing done for children. if. we're going to watch the trials in west virginia the worse we do you see you all know this is the rise awareness and raise money for new school it also opens a lot of doors of the blank to chapman in our communities as far as mountaintop removal what it's doing to those in in in the mining industry to archimedes was a perfectly viable one what it's actually doing to our children the governor made us dykeman our kids our future by our tomorrow he should die almost up and for our jihad to march for don't have them all. live at least over.

burning of coal is 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 in 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 stalked 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 ladies 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 be 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 gold 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 the coal company to file my property here me i'm not 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 that mountain all we care about is the profit we're making and that was the dollar i would have been and that's how. know we were playing there and this is a vice president cultural reduction using kids from massey coal ninety nine three told me this gibson created the stanley ayres 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 four years a claim that famous cemetery and if ninety nine to now on the clearest photo in eighteen years ago when i started this i couldn't get to people to listen not even my own family. now i know about turning a corner i'll press the knob on a.o.l. that was there once before there's no lonely there in my own mind only had. just gone on. 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 name and no boundary 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. here 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 easily 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. joy and probably count forty zero gold to get to coal even into a graveyard. after filling out a dedication and release forms the group is permitted to enter the mine site you know one and a half mile hike to the family cemetery. and

imagine having to sign a release to go. out and hundreds with you. the first water hole why risk one man in my life was up the. water would not their normal. six seven hundred foot high wall. my mother gave me birth. in the light. 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 if the cemetery been here for two

hundred seventy years and never had this many people out of it in the last hundred fifty years nice time on top to come through here they wouldn't or gentleness or kind. the superguy minister here i will tell you are a half a cent on my. show and these people for a rainy fifth graders the first time when julian come here four years ago we had kate's phones and had dates on them they're no longer here if they're even in saying that we came and got him. and not the case and in order to down are going to say on johnson our side is we're just not been heard here for alone 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. determined that the second coal silo was placed outside the permitted boundary of

three hundred feet from the school after maps of the preparation plant were found to be an accurate. list. of the. well. nobody would stand that. nobody will stand up to the street. i stand up for my grandmother fly i stand up to her forty two others will i represent the old sailor of march fourth elementary and i will stay on and i will fly and i will do whatever it takes to get something done for those children that they issues love him no more alex will you

know that it. was such. an. the i was. handling the i. will be. 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 a lot of folks on the issue we've raised

a little money for the new school in the issue in one of our goals for us is to come here and hopefully talk and make a stand a bird and i feel that we have conflict all three of them and i believe this go on 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 messy 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. frank. that.

way how. far. and the real. 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. does that mean anything to you we preach you know for three years. to marry the people in these camps used to be healed accountable for at least one of what. i'm going to do back to the back corner we need to clear this way because people are going to get back for more. i'm sure more work.

you have to get a new school that's the one your want your i ain't playing here i'm telling you we're not budging there's more coming. your. way around my your kids this might know what they're offering their field will go to market every morning meeting a whisper in the air while he's finding out we want results today we want our kids didn't. share. wired to our kids and their. company and their coach feel. they're on the wrong side of the i don't. know we are the cradle that bring their money out of them out of the little farmer where you can be took care of their bills our children. before the state can

get involved in this you such as whether school should be. new schools should be built a decision post first we have to look. i've heard the low. the school board with the decision on a new school had more for you for a vote of the people of raleigh. so they can determine the final outcome from still so i've got your back now all i could i hope that the. purpose for the. here. is you. can hear both you and read and i know you say we can make people. here certainly here who. like that but i think.

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