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long lug and. plenty legs . most of the carbon that we brought in from across to the earth is millions of years old coal particularly interesting because her unit of energy generated coal actually may be the cheapest fuel but it also releases the both carbon to beat up a serious carbon dioxide beginning at artist with the development of the steam engine the late seventy's and early eighty's humans began to. extract fossil curva from the earth's crust coal oil. may have something here but over some

time period it would be uplifted and subject them to erosion of the. 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 earth where it is bird to be used for generation of energy we have larger quitman that was introduced on surface lands about twenty five years ago here last evening which accounted for that the ability to recover coal seams that heretofore been on land of the use of dragline stuff like the mining scene step work and economical to man and even physically impossible. without the use of that. many people twenty five years ago when the first company said to bring the bright line they were laughed at and they said there's no way in the world you get a piece we'll put like that on their ridges southern at lax and they were

determined through engineering abilities and persistence to make certain that it worked and end it hey it's. the man was. playing. loose. as usual the.

same. people playing. the victim he is innocent. and. says it's just a. week later the case little children are little children will be protected this time from the majority of them and i can't guarantee. you a number of people are going to come along we're having. the same time like every day for the family from every car and from either maryland cars from their friends are there are no longer here or think that right now our children to just really get your work yet and such are nearly six months old. can't explain your partner going. to sleep.

slump. see you. back out never mind i doubt my family's i'm going. to need to keep her desperate families communities mad if dismantling the community. once these lessons are gone there is no more of a life. there is no more with redeem it go grow back it's not going to come back i mean you know we had a politician get up on table he said well the reason again saying it's being extinct because the deer are in. order bought this thousand acres. it's nothing of the rock now process mountaintop removal coal mining is an awesome display of coal extraction engineering it is also quite similar once a site is a tuna for cutting begins next explosives are used to blast away the earth and

period pools and. then machinery including massive shovels called drag lines remove the old river which is then deposit it in adjacent valleys called valley fills mountaintop removal coal mining can bring down the elevation of a peak but hundreds of feet sites are often thousands of acres in size but i would say these are like action rather than blacksburg and written a. book in the spring of two thousand and five a 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 the group called their campaign mountain just a summer there will be kind of this renewal of coal mining and a c. and some of those laws are going to be you know mountaintop removal mines. you know we were like hey this is you know now we're dealing with this issue to 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 one national issues that everybody has to deal with. see what they're doing. since some why is there a divide in our community. i've got nothing against free speech if someone you come in here demands and people's jobs and clothes are schools. and i and all that you lucky don't get hurt. but 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 in marsh fork west virginia. pamina zone by massey

energy america's fourth largest coal producer marsh fork elementary is a very very scary situation they have two point eight billion gallons of coast story which is it's toxic it's toxic material it has arsenic lay at my mercury chromium there's a lot of really really bad chemicals in the sludge there is a i like two point eight billion gallons of costarring sitting behind this elementary school four hundred yards up on top of my house. there's two hundred twenty eight kids in the school and the sophistication of engineering that goes into the construction of the things is i suspect not duplicated in any other physical structure anywhere in in the world in one nine hundred seventy two both a little creek there was this disaster or one of these impoundments basically blew out millions of gallons of this nasty sludge and water went barreling down

a small hot water and killed one hundred twenty five people destroyed like four thousand houses a thousand cars you know hundreds of people were injured. besides the danger of flooding well you know the residents are concerned about the health effects to schoolchildren from the coal processing facility located directly behind marsh work comment tree so it's three hundred feet away three hundred fifty feet away from major sits directly caused the river and you got seriously michael brown to agree that the magnetite got to walk and got the ammonia that they use is a bad bad i use diesel fuel in there they mix all the step together we've got by and here they are all the time you got. problems with her more more downer i mean there's. a lot of kids. in

a lot of people like the car all the time just drawing and all the time their kids are coming home with a listers in their mile little tiny blisters the size of opinionated always in their mouth. but not everyone shares their concerns in the small community where many residents work for the coal industry that surrounds them so if i wouldn't have grown up i was scared 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 times a day and more like college clothes and like i say never came home to carry with colored shirts or you know any sickness and i made a call records that prove that she had she's not having me think other than a common cold up like any other child. we've. been. frustrated local school and government officials you know action on the safety of north fork elementary is widely used granddaughter kayla

attends march for commentary on she's the pennies a promise campaign to raise six million dollars to build a new school and so with us here. at. the side there is a cure money. money. and let's see one of the other things. because i don't like. to start the pennies or promise campaign wiley and his granddaughter kayla present the governor with over four hundred dollars in pennies he orders a collector. we like to see the governor we have some money to present him. and see the story of the. step kids everywhere regular go and i go good to see you we have

a young lady here from marsh fork elementary i gave her you are so pretty and fish it's. hate i didn't. even know you could start. after school since. you going to seventy three and. it's. ok to have a little give when you forget it this is ok i'm fine ok. now we're let me just say you know so. i know we worked on this some we talked about the force of the school yes or the school were we out with the local board of education let's just start all over sure they smack up a whole lot we're not going to give him a future for nor to protect away from the west we're going to use it women has it words don't tell you to ok you and i we're not going to do what we've been doing you put a price on our children see it when you store this look of which ration in our

state you put a price this is not one of them are mental issues this is a little human being i have tried for two years to work with you on this and i've been ignored i don't mean to put you in a soft spot here if you're good enough is enough enough is enough we need to get this took care of your business what these coal companies as your peers and your politics this is not about politics we're asking people for money all of this country today's artificial announcement of it's just it's just going to be various stages we're going to raise five to ten 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 upset and aggressive but if this was your child would you not be well you know the enough so you know and she's beautiful so why would 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 there a lot of intimidation a teacher to spoke out last year and now he's been talking for so. what are you going to do with how do everything in my car that i think that. i do everything in

my car because of that we got a. kernel is just goodell's book big coal the dirty secret behind america's energy future explores the history and use of coal in america and throughout the world like many americans i didn't even realize that we still burn coal you know i thought coal is something that went out with top hats and corsets and i thought that electricity was just something that flowed down from a golden bowl 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 rides 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 the the owners essentially whether their 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 grounds quickly please. i. owe it tolls here but not in love just go with you part of yourself like.

and if you started out in the mines you had to have those two didn't let you get a loan created a company still. for about three prices put it this way love your cocaine said company stores they are gene you lived in your copy if you worked for them and you don't want a kitchen some i also store. and mulattoes all matters badly still owed to company store you couldn't pick just one payment. the mad company money screwed no place it wasn't you it was company store as i got an updated scrip it's worth more today than it was. right. usually help you know you can make more toodles. right here sarah kept track of which to use middle to come and check to. give you hand polies stamp you number of what you got your car loaded with coal somewhere on this car you would i want to check that. i'd be

a mule driver no times i'd be a go on board. in one state school he would probably need to go and here drop it all off unhook each meal from a poke on the phone. right now it real easy loud rock him if you call and we'll show you why you got a water tank in a slot after. the little power trip when you come about a senior writer. and doesn't smell really good but it works pretty good. growing all so. we look at the history of our area faithfully they with a community that are they with kate wearing think company still worth everything lots of people i mean this is the company housed all down that really well stuff and set their. oh schools are getting there because there is no money at all with

stores or clothes and nothing has come about because for all this time people with this cold company in their tie can take an entire week and never put it it's all going to go there wally west virginia broke the big on the wheel. five years ago. talk removal site moved into the head waters of the string that runs from her home in the past five years i've been flooded saving times there's been about five acres on our property it's washed away into the stream down below for a live. my property has 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 but what was

coming i mean when they get me they tracked me and my kids the mile for the flooding hello 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. i don't home do it i live in the middle of this why. because it's ok it's ok that maybe he'll be away from southern west virginia who is in the middle of this tale so if i ask my son. grown. i don't know nobody nothing i don't own these million jobs i don't own jobs and if i thank god do their dad wrong. across appalachians coal fields mining jobs are vital to local economies my husband and forthwith my essay for three eight or nine years and. we really appreciate and i say that's where we get our money 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 cofield residents are also concerned about another byproduct of coal production slurry pons. 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 when you're of 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 know believe that it is something only it's the indigenous dirt 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 will be underground they will be they will not be exposed to oxygen that 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 out of a cold sea but when you disturb that rock and start grinding it up in a 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 a brew of material that you would want any exposure to it all we know almost nothing about it i've got a database now has fourteen samples worldwide of coal slurry that are in the public domain six of these are from the coast martin county you know that the biggest environmental disaster in the southeastern united states six eight pools

representing what that material that entered our rivers and streams really is which i find rather prosperous 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 old. underground ones and they gave away in the body and that's what happened to the structure itself. in ringo county west virginia within sight of massey energy c.e.o. don blankenship whom carmelita brown has been battling for clean want to see. i some years ago. i were not i want to turn back and back straight and asked are the harness crying going to my husband got up and asked me what was on the camera and he said when he looked at it he said get out my god he said that's coast guard. we went and looked at fifteen wells.

set the samples off to the laboratory got the testing results back and did 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 pour. pretty good compared to what it was good morning these documents from the west virginia department of natural resources researched by mountain just a summer volunteers are permits for coal slurry injections that took place in the early 1980's at the slurry impoundment okayed approximately two miles above carmelita brown soame this permit shows that over two hundred eight million gallons of slurry was injected in nineteen eighty-four in one thousand nine hundred five this permit describes three injections and nineteen eighty-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 thousand nine hundred eighty sed study called underground injection control well that's the oxymoron of the century underground injection control what control do we have when we inject something underground i have no idea where it goes these . last thing ending with the pullout from our will for some reason went bankrupt or whatever all these three times you know who is responsible for that count we got the paperwork we know that calories are responsible for the clean up of the sleeper . claiming to have it nobody wanted to help us nobody want nobody was concerned and it wasn't only made it was oh my major is that down this road well patients i see for all have significant medical problems other people don't have. a greater number of people with alzheimer's disease than old timers disease memory

loss i've seen a great number of people who have numbness and tingling of their arms and legs which indicates a heavy metal. accumulation of seemed a fair amount of i've just looked ill health mannix the numbers on a kidney dialysis another neighbor a man his own lost kidney have 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 the causes kidney damage. of several people not necessary has lost babies. carried on six seven months you have maybe still going. hey tom are in here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture.

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