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looks. 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 and i am a komondor i've come from slurry pop. and i don't know. what to expect and i'll call it. maybe a few more years ma. and my health this night down tremendously. and i don't ever look to be helpful as i don't ever look to the front and i don't think there's anything inviting the feeling. that i only thing a lot now i want

a good moral i want them to quit the pump and are quitting jake and whatever they're doing i want them to quit that. and. it's all mockery they have. for the last twenty years and. then are. 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 lb ments and west virginia alone the total quantity of coal slurry in the rest of southern appalachians is. one december twenty second two thousand and 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 paid 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 and all the lawsuits and all the carrying on

that goes on in there in the press and you know the vanity fair's and. us news moral reports and all of that where the authors are warning people to believe that there were absolutely scripts in appalachia downs and nothing. in order to get the mineral is patently untrue it's patently untrue when you look around at the forest of mountains 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 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 waivers 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 canary 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 do it or a local school board state school board are more and do it in a way as citizens you know and parents and grandparents it's up to you to get the

show the party is you know we're all right the money for school one way or the other. like we will give the school we'll take you know. it's because it's showing that our government has come to this we can't get up and for children. we're going to last week charleston west virginia or sure 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 lines of chapman in our communities as far as mountaintop removal what it's doing goes in in in the mining industry to archimedes it'll probably die 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 of norfork

don't have a more. leaky. burning of coal and 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 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 mine coal 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 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'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 stopped all the regulatory agencies with with former coal industry lobbyists or executives by two thousand and one the bush administration and its white working changing the clean water act as a meeting 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 little with a special bond to our state ladies 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 fueled differently and that's going to 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 welcome back here in the back and he said i'm real repair a machine and dig for gold. we need to use coal we got a lot of it and we need to make sure. i am.

around a little 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 call come into my property here me and my family members and they tell me that we don't give a damn about people in cadbury colony we don't give a damn about what people want out at melun all we care about is property we're making and it was the dollar i would have bought and that's how reliant know we were playing there and it is just right spread of cultural would auctions losing kids from magical one thousand nights we told me this gibson created the stanley years 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 for you to clear my friend or cemetery and in one thousand nine hundred it created a restful and eighteen year old when i started this i couldn't get to people to this i'm not even my own family. now you know have i turned a corner press to the knob on a road that was there once before the snowy there in my own mind. or just going for. the young i'd have the day would never see where i've seen the young as of the day were never see the mountains the earth no remans no boundaries we are wrong. gibson uses the land it came from out and 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. the people know why should you take

a picture of a mountain for what it's going to be here forever. day by day 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 the family members have access to these 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 lord around in different things going on and i it's just to me say it's the. joy of public health forty zero gold it could get to cold even under 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 and just sign a release to go visit my family. have heard it's with you i want. to first order why risk one man in my life was in. the water i would not there now we're gonna save him six seven hundred foot high wall there now. my mama give birth even in the light. well. you can get in a cemetery through there and what we are as you go round. there used to be a road over here. one right here. over here the other wanted. one i

hear. your people are taking part in history this december third been here for two hundred seventy years and never had as many people wanted in the last hundred fifty years and i stand on tally come through here the winds are generals are kind and since we've got a minister here i'll tell you what else they say if i may. and these people i mean we need these graves the first time when julian come here four years ago we had cased on who had dates on him they're no longer here and things and then say that we came and got him. and it's not the case and the word that comes down is going to say johnson honestly is we're just not been heard here for alone time in mid august of two thousand and six the west virginia department of environmental protection broke to permit to massey energy to expand its plan more 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 plant found to be accurate. word loser cut. the. number zero zero zero. nobody will stay on that. nobody will stand up and be free. i stand up for my grandma or fly i stand up for her for all i represent don't feel remorse for elementary and i will

and i will cry and i will write something down for. more alex we're going to. lose our belief going to. look. at. how. well. i could talk to as many folks as i am along the way that

a lot of shows for a lot of folks on the issues we've raised a little money for the new school in one of our goals to come here and hopefully in . the stand over and not feel if we have copies to all three of them and. a lot of the worst people on this issue know 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 denied massey energy a permit to build a second coal silo behind the school this decision cleared the way for the expansion of nessie energy's coal processing facility two days later a coalition of citizen conservation groups including just a summer activists turned to west virginia governor joe manchin is office.

for. a while. and. really have. been nailed for 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 summer. does that mean anything to you we pray for you all for three years and it's never never going there i believe the people in these capital can be held accountable for. 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 in for her. i'm losing her or her her.

because we were going to lose gold at the one you're broke you're ain't like here i'm telling you we're not budging there's more coming god. we're around live here get this right now what they're offering their field will. be a great morning in a whisper in the air so why is there worry wart results the day we want our kids here's a new. chair. why does our kid care. for girls day in the coal fields. they're on the wrong side of the back. them on the. way or the regular bring their money out of farm or where you could be

took care of our children. before the state can get involved in issues such as whether school should be a new school should be built a decision must first be made at the local. 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 deter me while i come from themselves so i'm going to be joining me. now or could it. be. earth movers. if. you. can't because you. may say. people. are still there who. are. care.

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