heard the remains are removed by machinery. finally the unwanted soil is because the judge in valley feed. on. five thirty pm in moscow these are your arcs you have like a rescue that's become a recovery effort divers are treating more victims from a june pleasure cruiser that sank sunday in the volga river in russia's republic of tatarstan. to go to dinner with gold coast much for money no not oppose it because of the number of dead now stands at fifty four is shocked relatives struggle to come to terms with how their loved ones were dragged to their deaths within minutes. of. russia's president

orders those responsible for the tragedy to be identified and punished placing the disaster on decrepit barges cruising the waters. coming up in a multi award winning report on one of the biggest environmental and human rights catastrophes in u.s. history stay with us here on our team. leg barkley's. a leg lifts places kid gloves. sled sled to guard

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the energy generated coal actually may be the cheapest fuel but it also releases the most purposed to beat up a serious program. beginning in earnest with the development of the steam bath in the late seventy's and early eighty's hundreds here with began to hide and extract fossil carbon from the earth's crust coal oil natural gas you know the absence of humans over so part of period it would be uplifted and subject to a rotation and. returned to the atmosphere but those rates are tiny compared to the ability of you know to go out with large machines to deliver large quantities of this material to the surface of the earth where it is bird and it will use the generation of predator we have larger quitman that was introduced on surface lands about twenty five years ago you know licensing which accounted for

the the ability to recover coal seams that heretofore been unmanageable the use of drag life style while manning scenes that were an economical. and even physically impossible. without the use of. many people twenty five years ago when the first company said that. they were laughed at and they said there's no way in the woods you get a piece of equipment like that on the near ridges southern appalachia and they were determined through engineering abilities and persistence to make certain that it worked and and it hails. the.

man was pleasant. things to. use to kill man's fledgling would be. such. an easy thing. to sleaze. and dad. says it's just. play by these little children i am sorry little children will be protected their time from treatment or your family can carry. your family do a damn good people become real and i come here for i am right behind i can be able

to find it but may have to come and from either fire on cars from a pair of pants or her coming here to forsake the catholic church or the district or the actual work to get. her. to a place. where going to partner is going. to sleep. some other. sleep. but after the flight down my pet peeves i guess. you need to keep her desperate to meet community maybe if dismantling the community. once these lessons of god there is no more afterlife. there is no more with the 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 again saying it's meaning thank the dear. or about this thousand acre. site that's not the garage sale process mountaintop removal coal mining it's an awesome display of coal extraction engineering it is also quite similar once the site is it in a five year cutting begins next explosives are used to blast away the earth and curio program holes in. them machinery including massive shovels called drag lines rufio river 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 think these are like actual. blacksburg and really. 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 mountain top removal mines throughout southern appalachians training the group called their campaign mountain just this summer there was going to be kind of this renewal of coal mining into the sea and some of those mines were going to be you know miles over move all 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 let's help make this issue a national issue that everybody has the dealing. say what they're doing. since some ways they're dividing our community. i've got nothing against free speech so when you come in here the mandan people's jobs and clothes are schools

day on. and i and all that you lucky don't get hurt her 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 and marsh fork west virginia. a mine 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 co sorry which is why it's toxic it's toxic material it has arsenic layer chromium there's a lot of really really bad chemicals in the sludge there is a lake of the two point eight billion gallons of coastguard sitting behind this elementary school four hundred yards up on top of a mound. there's two hundred twenty eight kids in the school and the

sophistication of engineering they goes into the construction of the things is i suspect not duplicated in any other physical structure anywhere in in the world in one thousand nine hundred eighty two buffalo creek there was this disaster where one of these impound in space and 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 instead story hungry to what three hundred fifty three way it made sense directly cause the river and you got serious feel problems

over you got the magnetite you got to walk you got the ammonia they use it's a bad bad they use diesel fuel in there they mix always together you got bad headaches all the time you got i asked him are problems occur more more down or there's. a free trade along with here. but i often look in a lot of people. all the time just drain 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 if i wasn't out but i was scared i would not let her go there and she will be in first grade she with and kindergarten last year played on high ground very confident and more like

college players and like us thank you never came home helping dirty with her or you know any big mess and i had manacled records to prove this she has not had anything other than a common cold up like any other you know child. we. have. been . frustrated local school and government officials you know action on anything safety at marsh work elementary is widely used granddaughter kayla attends marse work home entry launches the pennies are promised campaign to raise six million dollars to build a new school and so with us here. at. the site there is a criminal. money to go. and let's you want to build a school 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 paintings he needs in order to have a collector. we like to see the governor we have some money to present him. answer the door step. now step down kids everywhere like you are doing a good to see you have a right here for more for caleb mention it like a pair you are serious and fish with. eight items for people to study. at the school since. you get to seventy three and. it's. ok to have a little guilty of. this is our campaign ok. now we're going to just you know so

far as i know it's worked on this summer we've talked about it the force of the school yes or the school were we out with a 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 you took us for north to protect the way for us we're going to do it women has its own tell you today ok you know you and i we're not going to do what we've been doing you put a price on our children's heads you know you know when you store dislike of what station in our state he 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 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 it is your business your politics this is knowledge 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 superior 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 would better

job and i appreciate i don't mean to be upset and from bristol but if this was your child would you not be well you know there's no you know adams and she's beautiful so what we've seen 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 the teacher the spoke out last year now he's been talking for so. what are you going to be now do everything in my car that i want that means that i do everything in my guy's got 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 was something that 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 producing 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 about 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 mystery and it was just like hell had opened up before me. and the money from the coal mining has always gone to the top and siphoned out by through the owners essentially whether their corporations are called barons like todd 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 the bases 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 ground as quickly as quickly. i. owe it tolls and everything of mine and love disco with you bottom you still like. and if you start down into madness you had to have those tools and they didn't let you get a moment created that company still. for about three practices but this white lawyer coke head company stores they harvey you lived in your kochi if you work for the in the motorcade should someone else's store. and one of the others on matters that are still owed the company store you can pitch it won't pay and will. be mad company money group and won't price it wasn't it was an open store as i got an

updated script gets worth more today than it was. right. usually help you know you could make more two dollars. right here server kit trick question so use will to build a chip to. give you a hand color stamp you number of what you got your car loaded with coal somewhere on this car you would i want to check. and be a mule driver what terms i'd be to go on board back to in one state and screw he would pull you go in here drop it off unhook each meal from a poke on to the full pull to the outside. right now it was real easy loud rock in what you call and we'll show you why you got a water tank in a slight. of the little water drip in your career about a writer. and didn't smell really good but it works pretty good.

growth number on you oh you look at the history of our area faithfully it was big communities database with kate rings big companies still worth everything rotten paper i mean the company house down that river off the set there. our schools are getting there because there is no money at all with the were closed and nothing's coming back these are people with this cloak of being in their tie can take an entire week and never put in the dark it's all going to go early worse for you and your broken going to be gone there were. five years. topper move will cite 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 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 on relocate my property it's worthless at the mine company had the option to get in touch with me and let me know what was coming at me and they'd be they trapped me and my kids the 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 go home to 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 which is the middle of this hailstorm i asked my son.

roan. i don't know nobody nothing and i don't own these million jobs i know i'm john and if i 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. a going on your sales and we really appreciate massey that's where we get our money in 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 pongs. the slurry

impoundments the way that we dispose of the refuse that comes from the cleaning of coral. which is literally nothing but dirt and rock something 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 there's something only it's the indigenous dark rot 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'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 right out of a coal seam but when you disturb that rock 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 and 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 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 soem perma leader brown has been battling proclaimed want to be. twenty some years at. home or not a lot of time black and black straight and i asked are the harness crying when my husband got up and asked him as i was on camera and he said when he looked at it he said i want god he said that's how sorry. we went and looked at fifteen wells. said the samples off to the laboratory got the test 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 it was this morning these documents from the west virginia department of natural resources researched by mountain just a summer volunteers are permits for colds were injections but took place in the

early one nine hundred eighty s. that the slurry impoundment located approximately two miles above carmelita brown soem. this permit shows that over two hundred 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 nine hundred eighty sed study called underground injection control all 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 there is forward if i ask here the with the pull out the normal for some reason went bankrupt or whatever all the story towards you know who is responsible for that.

we got the paperwork we know that carries are responsible for the cleanup of the full recovery. tell me they'll have a car ready nobody wanted to help us nobody want nobody was concerned and it wasn't only maybe it was oh my neighbors are down this road well the patients i see for all have significant medical problems other people don't have. a greater number of people with all timers disease old timers disease memory loss of see a great number of people who have numbness and tingling of their arms or legs which indicates a heavy metal. humilation i've seen a fair amount of i've just built ill health my next door neighbors on a kidney dialysis another neighbor a man is on has lost a 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 can the damage now

several people not necessary have lost babies i have carried them six months and have maybe stillborn. issues that same of you i can tell you that you will get over it when most of us are trying to remember if you didn't stick to bill separately it's a catch courtney's that peacekeepers to protect civilians during the bosnian conflict field in their. home.