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broadcasting live from moscow where it is five thirty on a monday morning and taking a look at your headlines now moscow has once again shouted in small despite firefighters winning back almost three quarters of the areas across russia engulfed by wildfires in recent weeks during a record heat wave intense fires in regions neighboring the city are to blame with emergency crews continuing to battle the flames. japan marks the sixty fifth anniversary of america's atomic bombing of nagasaki which killed around one hundred forty thousand people many today still suffer the after effects of radiation from the nuclear attack. and spies in the skies and the european union considers a controversial new surveillance system monitoring airline passenger behavior during flights as an. critics say it breaches the fundamental right to privacy. next we take you to west virginia where coal companies use explosives to blast

mountains and an aggressive form of mining our special report looks at how the cost includes flooding and landslides with a devastating impact on local communities. 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 come from alabama coal mines or it's come from sorry pot. i don't know. what takes bait. are caught. maybe a few more years mop. up my health this went down tremendously. and i don't ever look to be helpful as i don't have all of the time now thanks are the bane of i can do to 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 i want them to quit that. and. i'll mop the rebated. for last twenty years. and 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 impoundments 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 call 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 that but all the lawsuits and all the carrying on that goes on in the in the press and you know the vanity fair's in 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 forest in elton'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 waivers mind areas are typically graded and then hydro seated 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 the essential. no soil is the 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 for 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 guy up there for the kids you know we're going to money for school one warrior the other. like going to school in our community and.

it's because it's showing that our government that it's come to this we can't get up and done for children. the. eat eat eat. eat. eat eat eat. eat eat. we're going watch the charleston 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 blanket chapman in our communities as far as mountaintop removal what it's doing to those in in in the mining industry to our communities this is a perfectly viable what 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 for our kids of mars for don't have them all. live at least over.

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. 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 mind color 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 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 stalked 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 it's a 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 time for america and we're just 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 gold. 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 file 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're making and it 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 four years

a clear left family cemetery and if one thousand nine hundred ninety eight and now in the clearest photo in eighteen and all when i started this i couldn't get to people who listen now even my own family. now know about turning a corner how press the knob one day or that was their words before the snowy there in my own mind. the lord is. the young of the day were never seen you would have seen the young as of the day you were never seen the mountains the earth. no limits no boundaries for you to 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 ships in a group of supporters make a trip to the cemetery they want a day we're going to go on the mine site at the cemetery over there and we get to how lord around in different things going on and. it's just to me a safety. zone and probably account forty or goaded to get to cold even into 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. sleet . i.

didn't mention i need to sign a release to go visit my family to be. on the hardwoods with you i was. the first waterhole i risk one man in my life was up then how on. the water was not there now we're gonna save him six seven hundred foot high wall there now. my mama give me birth. in the light. well. you can get to the cemetery through there are going to go around. but used to be a road over here. one right here. one i hear. you people are taking part in history if the cemetery been here for two hundred

seventy years and never had this many people on it in the last hundred fifty years and ice time on top of come through here they wouldn't so gentle and so kind. the superguy minister here i will tell you our house they sent to my. house and these people for a rainy fifth graders for first time in georgia and come here four years ago we had kate's going to have dates on them they're no longer here if they're even in saying that we came and got him. and it's not the case and the words are down is 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 plan were found to

be an accurate. live. nobody would stay on that. nobody will stand up to his plate. i stand up a larger and lower fly i stand up at two hundred forty two as well i'll represent the old philip morris fork 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 allow him no more as i'll hold on to that it. was

such. he was. handling. 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 folks shows for revenge a kind a lot of folks on the issue we've raised a little money for the new school only issue in one of our goals was to come here

and hopefully make a stand a bird and off field we have conflict all three of them and i believe it's going for a lot of doors for a lot of people on this issue no 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. thank.

god. we're. and never will. first three years for the rights of those children that i see it's raining outside right now are saying tell us mugs day i'm sorry. does that mean anything to you we've preached you know for three years. to marry the people in these camps who used to be healed accountable for that but what i want to ask you. i'm going to back to the back corner we need to clear this way because people got a good back and forth sure. i'm sure more work. more. you can get a new school that's the one you're broke your eye playing here i'm telling you we

are not budging there's more coming. your. way around the iron fist fight yet you know what they're offering their field will go to market every morning made in a whisper in the air while he's fighting fail we want results today we want our kids to. share. wired to our kids and they're. for company in their code for you. they're on their own follow them i don't. know we are the people that bring their money out of them out of the little farm where you can 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 sales so i. could have gotten corgi. birds for the. if. you. can hear those he had read and they had no say in who. are serving there who. are like that but i think.

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