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. most of the carbon that we mine from across the earth is millions of years old polls particularly interesting because. you know that the energy generated coal actually it may be the cheapest fuel but it also releases the most carbon to be with various carbon dioxide beginning in earnest with the development of the steam engine in the late seventy's and early eighteen hundreds here with begad to date and extract. 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 a roge it would return to the atmosphere but those rates are tiny compared to the ability of humans to grow with large machines to deliver

a large quantities of this material to the surface of your where it is burned and it will use the generation of better g. . we have larger quitman that was introduced on surface mines about twenty five years ago here in washington which accounted for the the ability to recover coal seams that heretofore been on monocle the use of drag like skylab all that mining seems that we're an economic it's mine and even physically impossible. without the use of that. many people twenty five years ago when the first company said the bright and bright line they were laughed and they said there's no way in the world you can get a piece of equipment like that on the air ridges of southern appalachia and they were determined through engineering abilities and persistence to make certain that it worked and and it hails.

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community mad if dismantling the. one thing these mountains will go home there is no more of a left 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 tavi not long ago he said well the reason again saying it's raining thank the beer. or about this thousand acre mountaintop removal that's not the rock now will process mountaintop removal coal mining it's an awesome display of coal extraction engineering it is also quite simple once the site is a tin of clear cutting begins next explosives are used to blast away the earth and theory of course and. then machinery including massive shovels called drag lines remove the overburden which is then deposited in an adjacent valleys called valley

fills mountaintop removal coal mining can bring down the elevation of a peak hundreds of feet sites are often thousands of acres in size but i think it's our legs actually rather than plattsburgh and really. in the spring of two thousand and five the group of activists college students and local citizen conservation groups joined together to oppose the widespread increase in mountaintop removal mines throughout southern appalachians training a group called their campaign mountain just this summer there was going to be kind of this renewal of coal mining into the sea and some of those mines were going to be you know miles over move all 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 of 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 the dealing. say what they're doing one.

since some ways they're dividing our community. i've got nothing against free speech so when you come in here the mandan people's jobs and closure schools dale. and i and although you're lucky you don't get hurt. 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 they're opening strategy was to draw attention to a school situated close to a mountaintop removal site and marsh fork west virginia. c'mon is owned by massey energy america's poor the largest coal producer marsh fork elementary is a very very scary situation they have two point eight billion gallons of khowst slurry which is why it's toxic it's toxic material it has arsenic lead my mercury

crying and there's a lot of really really bad chemicals in this sludge there is a lake of the two point eight billion gallons of coast guard sitting behind this elementary school four hundred yards up on top of a mine. there's two hundred twenty eight kids in the school and the sophistication of engineering it goes into the construction of the things is i suspect not duplicated in any other physical structure anywhere in in the world nine hundred seventy two buffalo creek there is this disaster where one of these and found that it's 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 and you know hundreds of people were injured. besides the danger of flooding while you know the residents are concerned about the health

of the school children from the coal processing facility located directly behind marsh fork elementary so it sits three hundred feet away three hundred fifty three to right remember so it's directly caused the river and you've got serious feeling programs where we've got the magnetite we got the quark we got the ammonia they use the bad bad stuff they use diesel fuel in there they mix all the stir figure you've got bad headaches all the time you got i asked him are problems with her more more down or. ok. what i often look for in a lot of people i click call all the time it is draining all the time the kids are coming home with a listers in their mile little tiny blisters the size of a community are when they're miles. but not everyone shares their concerns in the

small community where many residents work from the coal industry that surrounds them and how i think i have to go on a pile of air and 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 concert day and more like college close and like i say never came home healthy dirty with her or you know any sickness and i have made a call records that prove that she has not had anything other than a common cold up like any other people in our crowd. we. have. been. frustrated local school and government officials you know action on the safety of more work elementary headline news granddaughter kayla attends marsport home entry which is the pennies a promise campaign to raise six million dollars to build a new school so let's hear. that. it's

inside that. is it your money. money. and let's see wonderful things. 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 took martyrs of collector. we like to see the governor we have some money to present him. in six or seven. step kids everywhere regular joe and i go to d.c. good to have a young lady here from marsh fork elementary i heard you are serious and. it's. great i don't see. people going to study. after school since.

i was going to be seventy three and. it's. ok to have a little get with you. this is our campaign ok. now we're going to be just as you know of course there are no sports on this summer talk about the force of the school yes or the school where we are with the board of education to start all over serve back up a whole lot we're not going to get them off you took us for north to protect the way for us we're going to get women as it were and so on so you to ok you know you and i we're not going to do what we've been doing you put a price on our children say a. dislike of what's ration in our state he put a price this is not an environmental issue this is a little human being 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 in a soft spot here but enough is enough enough it's enough we need to get this took care of your business what these coal companies as your peers and your politics

this is not all about profits we're asking people for money all of this country today's artificial announcement of it's just it's just going to super bowl stages we're going to raise five to two 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 a fish in the grips of but if this was your child would you not be rough you know the you know it happens and she's beautiful and so what we should we care about our children down there and there are serious problems with a lot of issues and i know you're aware of there's intimidation going on here a lot of intimidation is to try to smoke out last year now he's been talking to. you know what are you going to get how do everything in my car that i want that. that means that i do everything my guy got that we got to. turn loose just goodell's book big coal the dirty secret behind america's energy future explores the history and use of coal in america and to out 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 glow in the sky and 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 drag line 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 from the coal mining has always gone to the top and been siphoned out by through the owners essentially that our 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 is 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 as. i. told. them out of love just go with you bottom yourself. and if you start now into madness you had to have those two and they'd let you get a more creative company still. for about three plus put it this way love your coke peeps had company stores they hardly you lived near kochi if you work for them and

you didn't want a kitchen some i also store. and none of the others on matters that are still owed the company store you could pitch a plan on play while. he made company money scrip and or close it wasn't you it was a company store as i got an updated script it's worth more today than it was. right. usually until the you know you could make more two dollars in a row here's erica trick question so use middle to kill the chick to. give you hand polies stamp you number of what you've got your car loaded with coal somewhere on this car you and i want you to check. and be a mule driver well times i'd be to go on board. in one state school he would pull you'd think oh and here drop it off unhook each meal from it go on to the full.

right now it really easy loud rock in which you call who show your life you've got a water tank in a slot. of a little water drip in your career about a writer. and the spirit of good food you watch pretty good. growth number on all sides. you know look at the history of our if they flee they with big communities now they with great ring think confidence they're worth everything rotten paper i mean with this company housed all down that river off the bat. our schools are good because there is no money at all the stores were closing bell nothing is coming back these are people with this coal company in their tie can take an entire week and never put not the bark it's all going to go there wally west virginia broke in go on the big go on the.

years. top removal site moved into the head waters of the stream that runs from a home in the past five years i've been flooded seven times there's been about five acres of my property it's washed away into the stream down below where i live. my properties been completely devastated devalued there's no way i could say one relocate my property it's worthless and the mining company had the option of getting in touch with me and let me know what was coming i think when they get it they trapped me and my kids the both letting 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 don't fall into it i live in the middle of

this. because it's ok it's ok that may be a hillbilly from southern west virginia who is the middle of this tale so i asked my son. wrong. i don't know nobody nuts and i don't own these million jobs oh i'm john and it's like thank god i do their day and roam across appalachians coal fields mining jobs are vital to local economies and the husband of forth with nothing for fifty eight or nine years later . we really appreciate message that's where we get our money in that you know our way of living but traditional deep mining requires more workers and 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 pongs. slurry impoundments the way that we dispose of the refuse that comes from the cleaning of coal. which is literally nothing but dirt and rock i mean 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 it was 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'll be underground they'll be they will not be exposed to oxygen 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 of a coal thing but when you disturb that rock and start grinding it up into 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 had 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 biggest environmental disaster in the southeastern united states six samples representing what that material that entered our rivers and streams really is which i find rather preposterous three hundred nine million gallons 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 all.

underground wants and they gave away in the bottom and that's what had the structure itself to. go county west virginia within sight of massey energy c.e.o. don blankenship soon perma leader brown has been battling for clean want to be. why some years ago. i want to turn black and white straight and i asked our hollering and screaming to my husband got up and asked and asked me was on a camera and he said when he looked at it he said i want obviously that's close laurie. we went and looked at fifteen wells. said the samples off to the laboratory got the testing results back and took 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 that poor. pretty good

compared to what it was this morning for these documents from the west virginia department of natural resources researched by mountain just to some are volunteers or 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 soem this permit shows that over two hundred eight million gallons of slurry was injected and ninety four in one thousand nine hundred five this permit describe slurry injections in one thousand nine hundred four into an abandoned underground mine 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 nine hundred eighty sed study called underground injection control well 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 these. last year the with the pull out for more or for some reason went bankrupt or whatever all the story you know who's responsible for that county i got the paperwork we know the carriers are responsible for the cleanup of the story. telling the hook up when nobody wanted to help us nobody want nobody was concerned and it wasn't only maybe it was oh my down that's right patients that i see for all have significant medical problems other people don't have. a greater number of people of all timers disease and old timers disease memory loss i see a great number of people who have numbness and tingling of their arms and legs which indicates a heavy metal. accumulation i have not seen a fair amount of. ill health my next door neighbors on a kidney dialysis another neighbor man is around if i have lost

a kidney had it 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 damage. now several people are now necessary has lost a beast i carried him six months and had maybe stillborn. issues that so much of it is a huge music issue on the market if i didn't see him soon resulting in breach of the suppression of the shia majority read again our white house it. will. bring you the latest sign something from the realm. of the future.

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