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be overdone a half thousand times higher than normal as the figures rise so the fears around the radiation impact such as food and water contamination. i'm kevin zero in here tonight r.t. with the news in full for you and thirty minutes but next hope you can stay with us for a multi award winning film about one of the greatest environmental and human catastrophes in american history that changed the landscape forever. leg barclay was a a leg

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year is millions of years old kohls particularly interesting because per unit of the energy generated coal actually may be the cheapest fuel but it also releases the world's purpose to go through as curb at the beginning of the ernest with the development of the steam engine in the late seventy's and early humans began to hide and extract fossil carbon for a layer of crust coal oil natural gas even though the absence of humans over some period it would be uplifted and subject to a rouge and 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 energy 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 unmanageable the use of dragons styli all manning scenes that were an economical. and even physically impossible. without the use of that. many people twenty five years ago when the first company said the right to brag they were laughed at and they said there's no way in the world you get a piece we put in like that on the near original sort of southern appalachia and they were determined through engineering ability some persistence to make certain that it worked and any payments.

the. command was. playing. loose who. was just along the. same. easy playing. sleaziness. and. says it's just me. play by these little children i am sorry little children will be protected this night from the minority here i'm currently. a van i've been through

a lot of people it becomes real they're not coming to have. their moment and i guess the cable over backwards for me to come from either a parent comes from a fancy car down here or think they're damaging our children to destroy the reaction we're getting. her. as a model. can't explain your. coming. out. this mother. sleep. it's. not just the light down my pet peeves about them. but the need to keep moving her desperate to meet these communities snappiest dismantling the community. once these lessons of gone earth no more of

a life. there is no more with your game it don't grow back it's not going to come back i mean you know we had a politician get up on t.v. not go he said well the reason that jan saying it's being extinct dear. what about this thousand acre property it's nothing but garage sale process mountaintop removal coal mining is an awesome display of coal extraction engineering it is also quite similar once a site is it in a five year cutting begins next explosives are used to blast away the earth material polson. then machinery including massive shovels called drag lines rufio 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 think

it's our legs actually. blacksburg and really. in the spring of two thousand and five a group of activists college students and local citizen conservation groups join together to oppose the widespread increase in mountaintop removal mines throughout southern appalachians training a group called their campaign mountain just this summer there is going to be kind of this renewal of coal mining is going to sea and some of those mines 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 too it's not just an issue in kentucky and west virginia like hey let's put something together and kind of up the level of opposition to this issue of let's help make this issue a national issue that everybody has the dealing. say what they're doing one. since some why is there a divide in our community. i've got nothing against free speech but when you come

in here demanding people's jobs and closure schools dale. and i and all that 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 in marsh fork west virginia. i'm on his own 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 co sorry which is why it's toxic it's toxic material it has arsenic clay apply mercury chromium there's a lot of really really bad chemicals in the sludge there is a i like to point eight billion gallons of co sorry sitting behind this elementary

school four hundred yards on top of a mile. there's two hundred twenty eight kids in the school. the sophistication of engineering that goes into the construction of the there's as i suspect not duplicated in any other physical structure anywhere in in the world in one nine hundred seventy two buffalo creek there was this disaster where one of these impoundments 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 effects posed to school children from the coal processing facility located directly

behind marsh fork elementary so it sits three hundred feet away three hundred fifty three white major sits directly course the river only you got serious feel like we're probably very got to magnetite you've got to walk you've got the ammonia they use the bad. i use diesel fuel in there right now it's always there to get other you've got bad headaches all the time you've got. problems occurred more more down or there's. a long period. with eye opener in. all the time it is draining all the time the kids will come home with blisters on their mild little tiny blisters the size of opinionated all when they're mild. but not everyone shares their concerns in the small community where many residents work for the coal industry that surrounds them to power i think counterpoint to our affair and i would not let her go there and

she will be on par scrape she was in kindergarten last year played on a playground for a town today and more like college close and like a thank you never came home you'll think parity with color guard or you know any sickness and i have medical records that prove this he has not had anything other than a common cold up like any other child. we've. been . frustrated local school and government officials action on improving safety at marsh work elementary which is one of his granddaughter kayla attends marsport home entry which is the pennies of promise campaign to raise six million dollars to build a new school and so with us here. is that. the site that. is your money. that money to build. and let's

you want to build things. because i don't like. to start the pennies or promise campaign wiley and his granddaughter kayla or simply governor with over four hundred dollars in paintings he orders a lecture. we'd like to see the governor we have some money to present him. answer some of the. step kids everywhere now you are doing a good to see you have a young lady here for more for caleb mentioning. the greatness of this which. i can see. people going to study. at the school since. all you get is the stuff. and. it's.

ok what has a little get what you get this is our pay and fight ok. and we're going to be just as you know cause i know we worked on this some we talked about it 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 it's back up a whole lot we're not going to get him ball future for north to protect away from what's we're going to have it women has it would fill in for you today ok you know you and i were not going to do what we've been doing you put a price on our children so you know when you store dislike of what's rationing our state you put a price this is not an environmental issue this is a little human 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 sir but enough is enough enough it's enough we need to get this took care of your business what these coal companies as your pay is on your politics this is not about politics we're asking people for money all of this country today's our official announcement of it so it's just it's just in the

superhero 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 and we're better jobs and i appreciate i don't mean to be upset in progress of but if this was your child would you not be well you know you know and she's beautiful 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 as to the spoke out last year now he's been talking for so. you know we all want to what he did everything in my heart that i want that means that i do everything and i got guys with that we got a. journalist jeff goodell is 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 i went out with top hats and corsets i thought that

electricity was just something that flowed down from a golden bowl in the sky i 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 out to west virginia and i didn't know what to expect i remember i first knew i was driving outside of charleston and i saw the boom on one of the big drag wind 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 right now and it was just like hell had opened up before me. the money in the coal mining has always gone to the top and siphoned out by through the owners essentially whether their corporations are called barons like john 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. oh it'll. not in love just go with you thought of yourself like. if you started out in a manner as you had have those tools then let's get a more creative that company still. for about three presses put it this way larger co-create said company store the hard g u look to your kochi if you work for the him and you do want to pitch in some i also store. and one of the others on matters

that are still owed the company store you can pay just one primo. he made company money scrip and will close it wasn't it was company store as i got no dated screen brit's worth more today than it was. now it. usually helped me though you could make more two dollars a day right here sell the kit trick question so use middle to kill the chip. give you a hand call aids stamp you number of what you got your car loaded with cold somewhere on this car you and i we checked. and be a mule driver well times they'd be go on board. in one state school he would probably need to cohen here drop it off and who piece meal from it called the phone . right now it was real easy to loud rock him if you called and we'll show you why you got a water tank in

a slot. of the little or drip in your career bad writer. and doesn't smell really good but it works pretty good. all right number one on three oh. you look at the history of our area faithfully they was big communities not a big mistake ring think company still worth everything the paper. company housed all down that river our stuff and set their. our schools are good because there is no learning with the were closing down nothing is coming back things are out of state people with this coal company in their tie can take and take and never put the bark it's all going to go there will be worth reviewing your broke in the big go and there were.

five years. top removal site moved into the head waters of the string that runs from a home in the past five years i've been flooded seven times there's been about five acres 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 if the mine company had the option of getting in touch with me and let me know what was coming at me and they'd be they trapped me and my kids the miles of a flooding 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. block.

because it's ok it's ok that maybe he'll be away from southern west virginia where is the middle of this hailstorm i ask my son. grown. i don't know nobody nothing and i don't own these million jobs oh i'm john and it's like thank god there are gender day and wrong across appalachians coal fields mining jobs are vital to local economies my husband forthwith and i think for. i going on your sales and we really appreciate message that's where we get our money into 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 pons. the 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 coming that's what you're of separating from the cold 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 you're 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'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 out of a coal seam 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 brew 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 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 prosperous three hundred nine million gallons of 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 once and they gave way 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 soem carmelita brown has been battling for clean water. twenty some years ago. now water turned black and black sprite and astoria hollering and screaming to my husband got up and asked and asked me what was wrong he came in haste when he looked at it he said. that's close larry . we went and looked at fifteen wells. said the samples off to the laboratory got the testing results back in and some analysis on those results and it was pretty compelling that we needed to do more research down there i've never seen water quality that pour. pretty good compared to what i did from hearing these documents from the west virginia department of natural resources

researched by mountain just the summer balling tears 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 of carmelita brown sown. this permit shows that over two hundred million gallons of slurry was injected in one thousand nine hundred four in one thousand nine hundred five this permit describes three 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 thousand 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 three years it was to pull out tomorrow for some reason when i

correct or whatever all the story you know who's responsible for account i got the paperwork we know that calories are responsible for the cleanup of the full report. kelly go back up early and nobody want to help us nobody want nobody was concerned and it wasn't only maybe it was oh man they were sat down that's right well the patients i see for all have significant medical problems other people don't have. a greater number of people with alzheimer's disease and old timers disease is memory loss of say a great number of people who have numbness and tingling of their arms and legs which indicates a heavy metal. he relation seemed a fair amount of stuff just built ill health my next door neighbors on a kidney dialysis another neighbor i'm on his own has lost p.t. had it had to have a kidney transplant i have problems with my kidneys the timea water exposes and too

many types of metals cadmium in the others because this can lead to. less able people not necessary have lost babies i have carried them six months and have my be still. wealthy british style sun it's time to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger or a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause report.

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