seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are the day. and we're very welcome if you just joined us is the hour here in. another look at the headlines. we've been rebels are gaining on colonel gadhafi as they advance but westward closer to the capital tripoli off to allies as strikes help them recapture several peak oil towns meanwhile nations agreed to take over command of operations in the country which will go beyond enforcing the no fly zone. before intervention as a result of going off this crimes against his own citizens but warns that ordinary

people shouldn't strike russian forces have been reckless and their actions as reports of more civilian come through. and in the news this week over two hundred arrested in london after serious rioting huge protest involved people against british government plans to slash public spending by eighty billion pounds but the demonstrations also agree. because while cash flows into banks and forms. the fukushima nuclear facilities management has apologized for wrongly reporting that radiation levels at the top ten million times the norm and the study group the media to that creation of emergency teams at the site. now and we're exploring a controversial mining technique which spirit could bring about one of the greatest

environmental catastrophes in american history the second small to ward winning film is next. 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 coming from alabama komondor it's come from starting pot. and i don't know. what to expect. out caught. maybe a few more years ma. and my health this went down tremendously. and i don't ever look to be healthy as i don't ever look at the fine now thank those in vain i can do to help me. that are only thing i want now i want a good moral i want them to quit pump and are quitting jade and whatever they're doing i want them to quit that. and.

i want to be better. for the last twenty years. it's been hard. you can't make it without good water. from the moody. blues. currently there are over one hundred forty billion gallons of coal slurry contained in more than one hundred pound mints in west virginia alone the total quantity of coal slurry in the rest of southern appalachians. on december twenty second two thousand and eight a 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 has 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 with 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 and. u.s. news and world reports and all at that where the authors are warning people to

believe that that we're absolutely script in appalachia down to nothing. in order to get the mineral is patently untrue it's patently untrue when you look around at the forested 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 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 wavers 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 raised to very thin covering up to generate a few centimeters of soil you're talking about hundreds to thousands and tens of thousands of years continuing at its present rate the projected loss from mountaintop removal mining is 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 ed wiley has formulated a new plan for pennies a promise. our government do it or a local school board state school board will do it in a way it shows and you know and parents and grandparents it's up to you to get this job there were the kids you know were going to money for school one way or another . like we were going to school in our community and.

it's it's a shame that our government should come to this we can't get nothing done for children. we. were going to watch the charleston west virginia the worst do you see you all know this is the rise awareness and raise money for new schools and it also opens a lot of doors of applying to chapman in our communities as far as mountaintop removal what it's doing to those in in in the mining industry to our communities this is a perfectly viable one what it's actually doing to our children the governor made us tighten our kids our future by our to morrow he should die almost up and for our jihad to march for don't have them all. live at least over. burning of coal is 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. 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 mud color 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 the 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

coal industry was widely credited for giving bush west virginia so it's no secret that he had a a large debt to pay to the coal industry and they made sure he paid it throughout 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 by two thousand and one the bush administration made of white wording changing the clean water act designating waste as bill this wording change cleared the way for 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 with those with

a special bond to our state please and gentlemen the president of the united states i'm. 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. take a logical development got to be an integral part of energy. folks we need more supply you know workers welcome back here in the back and he said i'm real repairing a machine that digs for go we need to use coal we got a lot of it and we need to make sure that we. wait around. 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 and when i met with the coal company to fight all my property here me and my family members and they tell me that we don't give a damn about people in cabinetry colony we don't give a damn about the people on top of that mountain all we care about is profit we are making and it was the dollar it was our body and the. know we were playing there and it is the vice president cultural reduction in using kids from massey coal one thousand nine hundred three told me that gibson created the stanley heirs foundation refusing to sell his family's fifty plus acres to coal companies before 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 tremendous family cemetery and in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight and now

in the crater restful and eighteen goal when i started this i couldn't get to people through this and not even known family. and i don't know about turned a corner how press the knob on a or that was there was before the snowy there in my own mind. or just. the young of the day were never seen where i've seen the young as of the day were never seen the mountains the earth. no raymond's no boundaries for you could roam gibson uses the land of capered mountain 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. here paperno why should you take a picture of a mountain for it's going to be here forever. day by day the 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 that family members have access to these cemeteries requests are often not he's lee granted. on memorial day of two thousand and six gibson and a group of supporters make a trip to the cemetery i want a day we're going to go on the mine site at the cemetery over there and we get to how long around and different things going on and. it's just to me a safe. zone and probably account forty or goaded to get to cold even into 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 to be. heard it's with you i was. the first waterhole i risk one man in my life was up then how i. their water hole is not their normal were guys they were six seven hundred foot high wall they're now. my mama give me birth he did not give me life. well. you can get to the cemetery through their color as your round. they used to be a road over here. for. four. five years one right here. over here is another one. one i hear. your people are taking part in history this land the cemetery been here for two hundred seventy years never had as many people on it in the last hundred fifty

years and ice time on top of come through here they wouldn't or journalism kind the sense we got a minister here i'll tell you what else they said to me. and these people flame we need these graves the first time when julian come here four years ago we had kate's going to have dates on him they're no longer here if they hadn't been saying that we came and got him. and it's not the case and the words are two things down is going to say alan johnson want to say is we're just not been heard here for a loan long time in mid august of two thousand and six the west virginia department of environmental protection revoked a permit to massey energy to expand its plant and marsh fork elementary by building a second coal silo the d.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 were found

to be inaccurate. we're. going to. go. out. to be. our fly. tomorrow. and i will and i will try. to get something done for. more. than our sleep going

to. sleep. how. how. how. how. well you know i could talk to as many as i have along the way that a lot of folks. we've raised a little money for the new school when they. come here. in.

sandberg and i feel that we have conflict all three of them and i believe this fall for a lot of doors for a lot of people on this issue note is very important for me to walk on march fourteenth two thousand and seven the state board of surface mining overturned a 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 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. frank and. then. the girl her or her.

will fall. and nailed thirty three years for the rights of those children that i see it's raining how sad right now are saying will tire of us flood stay and serve it. does that mean anything to you we pray for you all for three years in a super nervous canary and the people in these cattle used to be held accountable for. what i want to ask you 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 it back for her. loser him or her her. because we were going to school that for one year will cure anything here i'm telling you we are not budging there's more coming god.

whisper around my ear get this right now what they're offering their field will no . more meet in a whisper in the air why is there we want results today we want our kids didn't. share. why does our kids a dare. for girls day in the cold feel. they're on the wrong side of the mound. we are the cradle that bring their money out of them out of the little farmer where you can be took care of us are still our children. before the state can get involved in this you such as whether school should be the new school should be built

a decision post first be made at the local. currency the local school board with the decision on a new school that more or before you 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 i hope that the. earth movers. you. can hear because you. may say. people. are sort of here who. are putting. money.

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