the. breaking news here on r.t. a hundred people feared dead after a pleasure boat sank on matter of minutes over a river the republic of tulsa star divers others saw you see many bodies inside. the store relatives and friends have gathered desperate for information about their loved ones dramatic account so why survivors who call to many children are trapped inside the sinking ship. many theories are being investigated as to why the boat

went down in such terrible consequences to overcrowding out there to the quick winds or the recklessness of the crude oil being consulted. but next a multi award winning film about one of the biggest environmental and human rights catastrophes in american history. len lewis blayse says. celebs lead to

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actually may be the cheapest fuel but it also releases the girls curb to beat up a serious curb. beginning of artist with the development of the steam engine in the late seventy's and early eighty's hundreds here with a big to do and extract fossil carbon from the earth's crust coal oil natural gas even in the absence of you know with over sub prime period it would be uplifted and subject them to erosion and. return to the atmosphere but those rates are tiny compared to the ability of humans to go out with large and it seems to deliver a large quantities of this material to the surface of the earth where it is bird to be used for generation of editing we have larger quitman that was introduced on surface lines about twenty five years ago here in washington which accounted for that the ability to recover coal seams that heretofore been on. the use of dragline

styli all the manning seen step were an economical to man and even physically impossible. without the use of that. many people twenty five years ago when the first company said that running a bright light they were laughed at and they said there's no way in the woods you get a piece of equipment like that on their originals 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 pleasant. things to. loosen. digital be. some. easy. sleaziness for. me because i think that is little children i'm sorry little children will be protected right from treatment during your time finally come grant me. your family if you remember before it becomes real then i know you don't have. the same right and i'd never be able to find work for me to come and from either

maryland cause my parents or their mom coming here to forsake the fabric of our church they're strangers to get your work yet and such. a sick mind. can't explain your. sleep. the slum. sleep. i've never seen the light down my feelings i get tired of the need to keep our faith to meet community happy if dismantling the community and. most of these lessons are gone there is no more of a life. there is no war with the game it will grow back it's not going to come back i mean you know we had

a politician get up on tape he said well the reason again saying it's been extinct or cough that theory. or about this thousand acres. it's not the garage sale process talk removal coal mine is an awesome display of coal extraction engineering it is also quite simple once the site is a tin of clear cutting begins next picks plosives are used to blast away the earth tiriel pools and. then machinery completing massive shovels called drag lines move the overburden which is then deposited in adjacent valleys called valley fills mountaintop removal coal mining can bring down the elevation of a peak hundreds of feet sites are often thousands of acres in size but i did certainly actually rather it blacksburg and really. can 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 appalachian training the group called their campaign mountain just this summer there was going to be kind of this renewal of coal miners in a sea and some of those mines were 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 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 a national issues that everybody has to deal with to. see what they're doing. since some why is there a divide not commit. i've got nothing against free speech but when you come in here demanding people's jobs and closer schools they all and i and all that

you lucky 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 and marsh fork west virginia. c'mon is owned 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 khowst slurry which is why it's toxic it's toxic material it has arsenic marjorie chromium and there's a lot of really really bad chemicals in the sludge there is a lake of the sioux point eight billion gallons of coast guard sitting behind this elementary school four hundred yards up on top of a mountain. there's two hundred twenty eight people to the school and the

sophistication of engineering that goes into the construction of the is a suspect not duplicated in any other physical structure anywhere in in the world in one hundred seventy two both a little creek there was this disaster where one of these impound it's 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 just roll with it four thousand houses a thousand cars 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 cold processing facility located directly behind marsh fork elementary so it's three hundred feet away three hundred fifty feet away when they hear the sister earthquake off the river and you've got

seriously local problems every got the magnetite got to walk and got the ammonia they used with the bad bad still a diesel fuel in there they mix all this stuff together we've got bad headaches all the time you've got. problems occur more and more downer i mean there's. a lot of tears. what i often look in allow them to look like all the time is drawing and all the time the kids are coming home with a listers in their mile little tiny blisters the size of a king and are when their miles. but not everyone shares their concerns in the small community where many residents work for the coal industry that surrounds them to power with a capital in a pile if cared i would not let her go there and she will be on par scrape she was in kindergarten last year played on the playground three times a day and more like collard clothes and unlike us that she never came home dirty

with powder or you know any thickness and i made a call records that prove that she has not had anything other than a common cold up like any other child. we. get. frustrated local school government officials you know action on implementing safety and more work elementary is one of his granddaughter kayla attends marks for commentary on she's the pennies of promise campaign to raise six million dollars to build a new school and so with us here. i think that. it's inside there is a care money. money that will. let someone else. because i don't like. to start the pennies or promise campaign wiley and his granddaughter caylee or simply governor with over four hundred

dollars in pennies he couldn't orders a collector. we like to see the governor we have some money to present him. and see the story of. step kids everywhere how you're doing good to see that we have a young lady here from north fork elementary like her usually pretty soft and fish which. i don't see. people going to stay. after school or something. or you know jesus said it's ok it's. ok to have a little give what you forget but this is our pay i'm fine ok. now we're to let me just you know some course there i know we worked on this some it's also about the

force of the school yes or the school where we at with the local board of education to start all over sure they smack up a whole lot we're not going get him ball future for north star protect away from what's we're going to do is it women has to go its own tell you to ok you know you and i we're not going to do what we've been doing you put a price on our children here when you store dislike of occasion in our state the put a price this is not an environmental issue 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 you're good enough is enough enough it's enough we need to get this took care of your business what these coal companies as europe is and your politics this is not about politics we're asking people for money all of these countries today's our official announcement of it so it's just it's just in a superhero stage and we're going to raise five to two 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 various that but if this was your child would you not be well you know there's not some you know happens and she's beautiful so what we say 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 a teacher to spoke out last year and now he's been talking for so. you know what are you going to give everything in my car that i want that means 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 was 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 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 lines 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 district night and it was just like hell had opened up before me. the money in 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 way unscathed as disposable and it's all about getting the coal out of grounds quickly please. i. owe it to those who. are not in love just go with you but you still like. if you start now demands you had to have those tools or they'd let you get a more creative company still. for about three plus protests were a lawyer coke head empty stores and a hard you lived in your coakley if you worked for the and they didn't kitchen someone else's store. and none of the others on matters that are still owed the company store you couldn't kid just won't play among. the mad company money kind of screwed no place it was it was

a complete store as our government dated screen prints were more today than it was . usually healthy though you could make more to dolls. right here sell with kept track of how much you use mail to come and check to. give you hand colleagues stamp you number of what you got your car loaded with coal somewhere on this car you and i want to check that. i would be a mule driver what terms would be to go on board back to in one state school he would probably need to go in here drop it all off unhook piecemeal from eight hundred forty. right now it real easy love rock em if you call and we'll show you why you got a water tank in a slight. of the little car trip when you come about a writer. and the spirit is good but it works pretty good.

growth number zero zero three zero s. you look at the history of our if they flee they with a community out of a with kate rings big company still worth everything rotten painful i mean with this company house down that river or stuff can set their. our schools are good because there is no money with the were closed and nothing's coming back these are other people with this coal company in their pride and i could never put. it's all going to go there wally west virginia your broke and that could go on there were. five years ago. talk removal site moved into the head waters of the stream that runs from a home in the past five years i've been flooded saving times there's been about

five acres of 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 worth it the mining company had the option of getting in touch with me and let me know what was coming i mean when they did it and they trapped me and my kids flooding hollywood 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 holland do it i live in the middle of this. because it's ok it's ok that me he'll be only from southern west virginia where is the middle of this scale so i'm not gone. wrong.

i don't know nobody nutten i don't own these million jobs i don't own jobs and if i thank god to do their day and roam across appalachians coal fields mining jobs are vital to local economies my husband forthwith and i think for just eight or nine years later and. we really appreciate us 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 coalfield residents are also concerned about another byproduct of coal production slurry pons. and 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 i mean that's when you're 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 to believe that you're some only it's the indigenous dirt rock that is caught up in the coal seam and that natural material includes mercury lead arsenic and 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 out of a coal say but when you disturb that rock and start grinding it up into 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 preposterous 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 once and they gave way in the bottom and that's what happened the structure itself. in ringgold county west virginia within sight of massey energy c.e.o. don blankenship whom carmelita brown has been battling proclaimed want to be. twice

i mean years ago. i want to turn black and like straight and asked are the whole on screen when my husband got up and asked and asked me what's wrong he came here and he said when he looked at it he said that i would thank god he said that's how sorry. we went and looked at fifteen wells. said the samples off to a laboratory that the test 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 this 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 one nine hundred eighty s.

cut the slurry impoundment located approximately two miles above carmelita brown's own this permit shows that over two hundred eight million gallons of slurry was injected in one thousand nine hundred four and ninety five disbarment describes three injections and nineteen eighty-four into an abandoned underground mind that the rate of six hundred gallons per minute the basis for. injecting. coal slurry and other things other wastes underground is an e.p.a. one nine hundred eighty sed study called underground injection control well that's the oxymoron of the century underground injection control but what control do we have when we inject something underground i had no idea where i got these forward by if i actually air the was to pull out the moral for some reason went bankrupt or whatever all the story time to know who is responsible for the county i got the paperwork we know that carries are responsible for the cleanup of the flipper.

chemical ali nobody wanted to help us nobody want nobody was concerned and it wasn't only made it was oh my my neighbors that down this road both patients that i see for all have significant medical problems that other people don't have. a greater number of people with all timers disease and old timers disease memory loss i see a great number of people who have numbness and tingling other arms and legs which indicates a heavy metal. accumulation seemed a fair amount of just philip ill health mannix the numbers on a kidney dialysis another neighbor a man as is his last kidney had it had to have a kidney transplant i have problems with my kidneys but the timea water exposes them to many types of metals cadmium among others the causes kidney damage.

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