all the result will spawn sunday a beach hotel the western resort to subdue a club med pony so if you tell someone you're close systems the resort and spa the risk olson who still runs many as you call them to tell full seasons has the soul to return. to stories from outside the meat from a bed of says the foreign and strikes in libya a direct result of the shameful behavior of colonel gadhafi in the crimes carried out against his people the russian president stressed civilians should not be put at risk while enforcing the no fly zone. the libyan leader stronghold was targeted in the continuing barrels of strikes which of reportedly killed over sixty people western officials claimed they have destroyed a command center used by the libyan army in the capital tripoli. and in other news an urgency teams have been evacuated from japan's fukushima nuclear site

a smoke seen rising from the plant reactor engineers have managed to restore the tricity three reactors and it's hoped that could enable them to restart the failed cooling systems. when users make heaven i mean a full in thirty minutes time now though hope you can stay with us for a multi 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 normal that's come from a band of coal mines rights come from sorry part. i don't know. what to expect in our part. maybe a few more years ma. and my health is somewhat balanced from endlessly. and i don't ever look to be helpful as i don't ever look at the front now thinkers

i'm being invited to feel. that i only thing along now along good morning i want them to quit pump and are quitting jake and whatever they're doing i want them to quit that. and. i want to be paid. for the last twenty years. and hard. you can't make it without good water. comes through 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 appalachian. on december twenty second two thousand and eight coal ash impoundment at the

tennessee valley authority says 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 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 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 in the. u.s. news and world report said. that where the authors are warning people to believe that there were absolutely step in appalachia downs and nothing. in order to get the mineral is patently untrue it's patently untrue when you look around that 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 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 wind areas are typically graded and then hydro seeded with less but these are 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 a centrally no soil just a very thin covering up to generate a few centimeters of soil you're talking about hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands of years continuing at its present rate the projected loss from mountaintop removal mining and 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 at wylie has formulated a new plan for pennies a promise. our government choco there were a local school board state school board or do it in a way it shows you know and parents and grandparents it's up to you to get this job

pretty kid you know we're going to go raise the money for school one warrior or the other however all right we'll go to school we'll be in our community and. if you keep it showing that our government if you come to this we can't get enough of the poor children. we're going to watch the charleston west virginia war so 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 it'll probably be going ample what what it's actually doing to our children the governor

made us tighten our kids our future my yard morrow he should die almost up and more arduous a march for don't have them are. looking for. burning of coal as for over a century has been one of the most deadly things that and humans have done it through 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 products 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 that west virginia had got a 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 you calls he was widely credited for giving bush west virginia so it's 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 stocked all the regulatory agencies with with former coal industry lobbyists or executives like two thousand and one bush administration made of white working changing the water act designating waste as will this wording change 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 meal with those with a special bond to our state ladies and gentlemen the president of the united states thank you. and 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 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 work i can back here in the back and he said i'm around repairing a machine and they should go. we need to use quote we got a lot of it and we need to make sure. i am

thank. you know around this table 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 nicole coming to write all my property here me and my family members and they tell me that we don't give a damn about people who carry current we don't give a damn about the people on top of a mountain all we care about is profit we are making and it was the dollar it was our body and the power. no in between there and it is just right for them caulfield production a new gene kitts from magic zero 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 for 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 my family cemetery i mean from ninety nine to now on the clear to rest eighteen and go north korea this couldn't get to people who listen now even my own family. now know have i turned a corner how crest of the knob one day or that was there was before this no lonely there in my own mind oh yeah oh yeah. just for. the young eyes of the day were never seen you were i've seen the young as of the day we're never see the mountains the earth no raymond's november if we could roam. gibson uses the land of cape for it mountain to educate the public about the effects of mountaintop removal one of the biggest questions people ask 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 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 that 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 they want a day we're going to go on the mine site at the cemetery. and we get to how we're going around in the different things going on and i. just i mean. how i do you. show in public out forty zero gold it can get to cold even under a graveyard. after filling out a jennifer case and release forms the group is permitted to enter the mine so that

in a one and a half mile hike to the family cemetery. seat i. didn't mention an inch a sign a release to go basically she was. not heard it's with you i was. the first rodeo i responded and in my life was at the heart of the waterhole not their number one we've got a seven six seven hundred foot high wall there now. and then on the give me birth you know give me life. well. you can get in a cemetery through there require as your round. i used to be a road over here. one

right here. over here the other one. one i hear your people are taking part in history their claim to cemetery been here for two hundred seventy years and never had as many people on it in the last hundred fifty years and i stand not doubt it come through here the winds are gentle as are kind and since we got a minister here i will tell you what else they said to me. and these people flame beneath these graves the first time julian come here four years ago we had case going to had dates on him they're no longer here it's been said that we came and got him. and it's not the case and the word that i'm still going to say johnson i want to say is we're just not been heard here for alone time and mid august of two thousand and six the west virginia department of environmental protection we spoke to permit to massey energy to expand its plant marsh fork elementary by building

a second coal silo at b.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. we're losing. the. oh oh oh. nobody will stand up. nobody will stand up to me for. i stand up for marjorie and our flock i stand up to her will i represent them elementary and i will and i will cry

and i will write something down for these children. no more alex. going to. cut down to look funny. how.

well. i could talk to as many folks as i have along the way that a lot of folks shows for me to educate a lot of folks on the issue we've raised money for the new school in one of our goals here and hopefully in. sandberg and i feel if we have conflicts all three of them and leave us go for a lot of doors for a lot of people and his issues though is very important for me to walk on march fourteenth two thousand and seven the state board of surface mining overturned the west virginia department of environmental protections ruling that the nod 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.

right for you. then. you are the earth. are a. real. fan mail for three years for the rights of those children that i see it's raining outside right now are saying we'll tell you the floods stay in summer. does that mean anything to you we pray for you all for three years and seven am going early only to think when he's captain he's going to be held accountable for the rest of what i want to ask you to do you know what i'm going to do back to back corner we need to clear this way because people are going to get back for her. for him or her will

lose her. hair one time we were here in new school at the one you're going to hear on playing here i'm telling you we are not budging there's more coming god. where for am i here good despite how low her office there bill maher can't wait for me to whisper in the air why is finding out we want results today we want our kids feel safe to. share. what is barbecue a dinner. for kobe and co feel. they're on the wrong side of the mound. we are the

regular bring their money out and now look for more where you get very took care of her children are killed. before the state can get involved in this series such as whether school should be the new school should be built a decision post first be made you have to look. i've heard the local school board with the decision on the new school that march forward before i go to the people of raleigh. so they can determine the final outcome from themselves so i'm going to join me. now or could have told god or the. virtues of years ago for. you. if you. can hear those you breath may say. people. are still here who. are organizing.

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