gold to gold you know till center. still destroys ski lift you will see it call this column if you visit. just one story dominating the news from us on our team today divers now made the tragic discovery of up to forty children's bodies inside the sunken pleasure cruiser in central russia it went down in minutes killing more than half of the two hundred seven on board. with the goal of the body the missile sinking listen three minutes our whole family was on that ship but we lost or leave my wife and grandchildren shock relatives are struggling to come to terms with how their loved ones were right to their deaths survivors have been describing the desperate attempts to save others from the rushing waters an inquiry to try to find and

punish those responsible for the tragedy early indications blame a mix of circumstances from technical failure to human as. well as kevin i will update all the latest developments for you on the volga tragedy in thirty minutes for the news continues in full between now and then an award winning multi award winning five report for you about one of the biggest environmental and human rights catastrophes in american history. 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 off in a panic how moms are coming from story pot. and i don't know. what to expect in our thoughts. and maybe a few more years. i'm trying to help this went down and from memphis told.

them. and i don't ever look to be healthy as i don't have all of the fine and i don't think there's anything i can do to help. that i only thing i want now i want a good moral i want them to quit the pump and are quitting j. or whatever they're doing i want them to quit that. and get. them to sound off to me beta. for the last twenty years. and i aren't. 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 and west virginia alone the total quantity of coal slurry in the rest of southern appalachians and no.

one december twenty second two thousand and eight acall 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 it is believed to contain toxic compounds including arsenic can work your ear. the tennessee valley authority has meets 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 we're throwing away the next generation's most valuable resource and that is the water 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. and you know with all of that all the lawsuits and all the carrying on that goes on in the in the press and you know the vanity fair's and in the u.s. news and world reports and all of that where the authors are warning people to believe that they were absolutely strip in appalachia the islands 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 a 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 contoured these mines are routinely granted wavers wind areas are typically graded and then hydro seeded with less but these are grass which clings to the compact and shale in rock but 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 ago from something like a rock mass that has essentially no soil or is the very thin covering up to generate a few centimeters of soil you're talking about hundreds to thousands of tens of thousands of years continuing at its present rate the projected loss for mountaintop removal mining and 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 at wylie has formulated a new plan for pennies a promise. our government do we are

a local school board and 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 the job were the kids you know we're going to go right to money for school one way or the other. place we go to school we'll tell you no they. should be killed it's showing that our government come to their supply can't get up and work children. and. we're going last week charleston west virginia the worst we 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 the blanket chatman in our communities as far as mountaintop removal what it's doing to those kids in the mining industry to archimedes with the

probing lampel what what it's actually doing to our children the governor made us tighten our kids our future by our kamar of peace or die almost up in the more arduous of march fourth don't have them all. burning of coal is for over a century has been one of the most deadly things that humans have gone through the air around them even after one hundred years of burning coal and after one hundred years of so-called improvement of 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 the family say. we want to call 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 coldest it was widely credited for giving bush west virginia so it was no secret that he had a a large debt to pay to the coal industry and they made sure he paid it throughout my safety throughout the rollback of regulations on dirty power plants through a variety of places he essentially stalked all the regulatory agencies with with former coal industry lobbyists or executives like two thousand and one bush administration they displayed wording changing the clean water act designating

waste as a 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 little with a special bond to our state ladies and gentlemen the president of the united states thank you. and we can do a better job in america one of these days we're going to be driving you know automobiles that are fuel differently and that's going to be sad in time 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 at spike and back here in the back and he said i'm real repairing

a machine at this rico. we need to use coal we got a lot of it and we need to make sure. i am thank. you letter 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 a cold coming right on my property here me and my family members and they tell me that we don't give a damn about people in temporary colony we don't give a damn about the people on top of that mountain all we care about is profits we're making and it was the dollar i would have been and the taliban i know we were playing there and if his vice president called me over dutch amusing kids from magic oh well one thing night we told me this gibson created the stanley errors 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 four years a three month finder cemetery and in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight and now on the third arrest eighteen year ago north borders couldn't get to people who listen now even own family. now you know have i turned a corner how press the knob on a door that was there once before the snowy there in my own mind. or just for. the young ads of the day were never seen you would have seen the young as of the day were never seen ramon's with no raymond's no boundaries we could roam. gibson uses the land it came for him 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 people know i said you take a picture of a mountain for 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 that family members have access to these cemeteries requests are often not easily granted on memorial day of two thousand and six ships in a group of supporters make a trip to the cemetery i want a day where we're going to go on the mine site at the cemetery. and we get to how we were around in different things going on and i it's just for me a safe the. joy of public health forty zero gold it could get to cold even into

a graveyard. after filling out a jennifer cation and release forms a group is permitted to enter the mine site in a one and a half mile hike to the family cemetery to the. street. i. met you and just signed a release to go looking. not hard it's with you i was. the first quarter why risk one man in my life was at the heart of the waterhole not there were guys there were six seven hundred foot how long are there now and the moment give me birth you know give me life. well. you can get to the cemetery through their color as your round. they used to be a road over here. one

right here. over here to the i want to hear what i hear you hear people with are taking part in history you are playing the same period been here for two hundred seventy years and never had as many people on it and the last hundred fifty years ice time not gonna come through here they were and so journalism kind of the sense we got a minister here i won't tell you what else they said to me. and these people i mean we need these graves the first time in julian come here four years ago we had kate's going to had dates on him they're no longer here if they didn't say that we came and got him. and now the case and the word loot and going to say johnson on stay is we're just not going to hurt here for a loan on time and mid august of two thousand and six the west virginia department

of environmental protection broke a permit to massey energy to expand its plant could more fork elementary by building a second coal silo the d.p. determined that a second coal sorrow was placed outside the permitted boundary of three hundred feet from the school after maps of the preparation plan were found to be accurate. we're. going to. go. out. and. stand up before. i stand up for my granddaughter fly.

to her for a life i represent don't feel remorse for elementary and i will and i will try and i will try to get something done for these children. no more. we're going to. cut our loose going to look. at. how.

well. i could talk to as many as i have along the way but a lot of shows for a lot of folks on the issue we've raised money for the new school. one of our goals is to come here and hopefully. sandberg and i feel if we have coffee thought three of them and i believe this go for a lot of doors for a lot of 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 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 softness. you. are the odds. are that. we have fought tooth and nail for three years for the rights of those children that i see it's raining outside right now are saying that will tell her best friend stay and serve it. does that mean anything to you we pray for you all for three years and of supernanny canary the people in these cattle used to be healed accountable for that and what i want to ask you to do you know i'm going to back to the back corner we need to clear this way because people are going to get back for her. loser more for

her clearly her. for her time we were going to school at the one you're going to hear any playing here i'm telling you we are not budging there's more coming was. where around i hear people just like you know what they're offering their field will. remain in a whisper in the air while it is finding out what we want results today we want our kids here's a. chair. right barbecue and he did. for company in the code field. there on the wrong side of the man.

we are the cradle to bring that money out that man. farmer where you could be took care of her there are children. before the state can get all business 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 march forward for a vote of the people of raleigh. so they can determine while grown from cells so i'm going to rejoin the. canal to talk about him or. her visitors. or. if you. can't hear the grass may. people.

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