the. credit you're tuned to watch the main story is the sound of the u.s. led coalition against colonel gadhafi is forces is growing as a baby or is hit with more air strikes and cruise missiles the voices against the intervention are also getting in on the head of the arab league says the bobbin to stopping civilians instead of protecting them. from washington maintains its intervention will be limited in the words behind the most pain and dropped on the field is raising fears that america's military and purpose in having consequences for civilians as it did in iraq and afghanistan. and japanese imports get the

global public shoulder off the consumer radiation make meanwhile the number of dead from small it's often was just a moment in the house and workers are still struggling to prevent some inclement out of the stricken facility which officials say they never produce and yet again. no news updates in thirty minutes time but now stay with us from monte award winning film about one of the greatest environmental catastrophes in american history which changed the landscape forever. on the day of this interview the small creek less than one mile from their home flows black and i it's not we all know that's coming from one of em a coal mine for i've come from florida pop. and i don't know. what to expect and all caught. and maybe a few more years ma. and my helpless knight down tremendously.

and i don't ever look to be helped as i don't ever look to the front now think there's anything i can do to help them. but i only thing i want now a long good morning i want them to but we have company that are quitting jake and whatever they're doing i want them to quit that. and. i want the maybe it'll. be. for the last twenty years. it's an art. you can't make it without good water. from. the. booze. currently there are over one hundred forty billion gallons of coal slurry contained in more than one hundred pound mints and west virginia alone the total quantity of coal slurry in the rest

of southern appalachians is no. on december twenty second two thousand eight 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 as waste created from the burning of coal at the kingston coal plant and 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 we're 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 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. us news more reports. that where the authors are warning the people to believe that they were absolutely script 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 a 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 or is the very thin covering of to generate a few centimeters of soil you're talking about hundreds and thousands and tens of thousands of years continuing at its present rate the projected loss from mountaintop removal mining that's one point four million acres in the next decade and near equal in size to the state of delaware by the summer of two thousand and six at wylie has formulated a new plant for pennies a promise. our government choco do it or

a local school board state school board doctor will do it in a way it shows you know entire and grandparents it's up to you to get the job they're pretty kids you know we're going to go raise the money for school for one more year and other. like we will give the school built in our community and. let's get to it showing that our government can come to this simply can't get nothing done for children. we. were told last week charleston west virginia the worse we do you see you all know this is the right awareness and raise money for new schools 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 kids in the mining industry to archimedes with the probably going ample what what it actually doing to our children the governor made us tighten our kids our future my argument he should die almost up and more arduous up north fork don't have them are. blatantly illegal the. burning of coal those for over a century has been one of the most deadly things that we humans have done through the air around them even after one hundred years of burning coal 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 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's no secret that he had a 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 that he essentially stalked all the regulatory agencies with with former coal industry lobbyists or executives like two thousand and one the bush administration and its white working changing the clean water act designating

waste as will this wording change here the way 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 in with those with a special bond to our state police and gentlemen the president of the united states thank you. we can do 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 be exciting times for america urges new technologies coming down and we can encourage those technologies . so conservation technological development of got to be an integral part of energy folks we need more supply you know work welcome back here in the back and he said

i'm real repairing a machine that digs for co we need to use coal we got a lot of it and we need to make sure the e.u. of. oil around will 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 i when i met with the coal company to buy all my property here me and my family members and they tell me that we don't give a damn about anyone can take our we don't give a damn about what he wants out of that melon or we care about is profit we make and and that was the dollar i would have been and the powerful i know we were playing there and it is a vice president called deal with ducks in a new team kids from magic oh one thousand nights he 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 in one thousand nine hundred now in a period of rest and eighteen years ago when i started this i couldn't get to people to this and now even my own family. now know about trying to corner how crest of the knob on a oh that was there was before the snowy there in my own mind i had. just one. young adds of the day were never seen you would have seen the young as of the day were never see the mountains the with no raymond's no boundaries we could 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. we have people no plus if you take a picture of a mountain for we're going to be here forever. day by day seventy five hundred acres of active mountaintop removal mines continue to encircle his property. another family cemetery sits across the ridge on the active mine site although regulations require the family members have access to the cemeteries requests are often not easily granted on the morial 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. and we get to how lord around in different things going on and i it's just to me a safe the whole idea would be strong and probably

a cowboy to you know gold it could get to cold even into a graveyard. after filling out a dedication and relief squads the group was permitted to enter the mine site to begin a one and a half mile hike to the family cemetery. and . having to sign a release to go. on a card with you i was. the first waterhole i risk one man in my life was at the. waterhole not there no more we got six seven hundred foot wall there now. my mama give me birth. give me life. well. i'm a card through there come on raise your round. i used to be

a road over here. for. one right here. over to the other wanted. one i hear. your people are taking part in history. december third been here for two hundred seventy years and never had this many people want to and the last hundred and fifty years ice time not gonna come through here they were and so generous or kind but since we've got another story here i'll tell you what else they said to me. which and these people i mean we need fifth graders the first time in julian come here four years ago we had a case going to have dates on them they're no longer here and they didn't say that we came and got him. and it's not the case and it wouldn't this town is going to say alan johnson is going to say 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 poked a permit to massey energy to expand its plant in marsh fork elementary by building a second coal silo a d.e.p.t. 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 inaccurate. we're losing. out of the. house. nobody will stay on that. nobody will stand up to me for. i stand up for my granddaughter fly

i stand up for her. i represent don't feel remorse for elementary and i will stay and i will fly and i will try to get something done for there's. no more. we're going to. lose our sleep going to. let. him.

sleep. well you know i could talk to as many folks i have along the way that a lot of folks shows for trade a lot of folks on the issue we've raised money for the new school. here and hopefully talk in. i stand over and i feel that we have copies of all three of them and i believe it's called for a lot of the work for a lot of people on this issue. though is 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 his decision cleared the way for the expansion of massey energy's coal processing facility two days later

a coalition of citizen conservation groups including not just a summer activist turned to west virginia governor joe manchin is office. for her or her. real job. and new first three years for the rights of those children that i see it's raining hats right now are saying it's her and us flood stay and serve it. does that mean anything to you we prayed for you all for three years and if you have never missed an early to think we need capital these to be healed accountable for. what i want to do you know what i'm going to do back to the

back corner we need to clear this way because people we've got to get back for her and i. have news for him or her for the clearly her. because we were going to school after a while your appearance right here i'm telling you we are divergent there's more coming god. you know. we're around live here get this right now what they're offering their field. even more amazing with renee here is why is there were more results today we are here to say. share. writers are there. for girls day in the coal fields. they're on

their own far the better known. we are the cradle that bring their money out that man. farmer where you can be took care of our children. for the state and get involved in this research is rather school should be the new school should be built a decision must first be made at the local level. i've heard the local school board with the decision on a new school have more or before i go to the people of raleigh. so they can determine while i phone from themselves so i'm going to rejoin the. canal for good i hope that him or. her visitors. are. here. if you. can't because you.

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