spilling over one point one billion gallons of coal ash watch 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 job or 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 bible resource and that is water one of the best sources of water anywhere in the world and maybe the best source of fresh water and proximity to one of the world's largest fastest growing populations. you know with all the 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 they were absolutely strip 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 melton's 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 a 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 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 for the kids you know we're going to money for school one warrior the

other. day we get a new school built in our community and. it's rich it's showing that our government that it's come to this that we can't get up and done for our children. we're 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 school and it also opens a lot of doors of applying to chapman in our communities as far as mountaintop removal what it's doing toes in in in the mining industry to archimedes was a perfectly viable one what it's actually doing to our children the governor made us tightening our kids our future by our to morrow he should die almost up and more are just march for don't have them all. 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. 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 to finally say ok 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 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 was no secret that he had a large debt to pay to the coal industry and they made sure he paid it through out mine safety throughout the rollback of regulations on dirty power plants through a variety of places and he essentially stalked 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. 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 which is new technologies coming down and we can encourage those technologies. so conservation technological development of 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've got a lot of it and we need to make sure that we. were the. way around this. 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 on my property here me i'm not family members and they tell me that we don't give a damn about people who carry cholera we don't give a damn about the people and how them now and all we care about is profit we're making and that was the dollar i would have been and that's how. you know we were playing there and this is the vice president cultural reduction in using kids from mexico ninety nine three told me this gibson created the stanley ayres 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 for you to clear my family cemetery and if one thousand nine hundred ninety eight announced the clearest vote in eighteen years ago when i started this i couldn't get two people to listen now even my own family . and i don't know about turning a corner how crest of a knob on a or that was there was before the snowy there in my own mind. or just one of. the young ads of the day were never seen you would have seen the young as of the day were never see the mountains to with. no limits no boundaries for you could roam. gibson uses the land a 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 people know 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 easily granted. on memorial day of two thousand and six gibson and a group of supporters make a trip to the cemetery it well today we're going to go on the mine site of the cemetery. and we get to how all around and different things going on and. it's just. showing the public out forty year old gets a cold even into a graveyard. after filling out a den of occasion and release forms a group is permitted to enter the mine site in a one and a half mile hike to the family cemetery. i

mean to sign a release to go. out and hundreds with. the first water why risk one man in my life was up the. water was not there now we've got six seven hundred foot high wall there and. my mama give me birth. in the light. well. you can get to the cemetery through their corner and your around. there used to be a road over here for five for one right here. over to the other wanted. one i hear. your people are taking part in history is playing december third been here

for two hundred seventy years and never had this many people out of it in the last hundred fifty years and ice time on top of come through here they were and so generous and kind. the superguy minister here i will tell you our house they sent to my. house and these people for a rainy fifth graders the first time in julian come here four years ago we had kate's phones and had dates on and they're no longer here if they meant say that we came and got in. and not the case and in order to down is going to say on johnson our site is we're just not been heard here for alone 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.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 plan were found to be an accurate. live. nobody would stand that. nobody will stand up to this plate. i stand up for my grandmother fly i stand up two hundred forty two of those little i represent don't feel remorse for elementary and i will stay and and i will fight and i will do whatever it takes to get something done for these children that day is who's left

him no more alex will you know that it. was such. he was. handling the lead. nobody would. believe. it if he said. well no i couldn't talk to as many folks i have along the way that a lot of folks shows for revenge a kind a lot of folks on the issue we've raised

a little money for the new school in the issue in one of our goals for us is to come here and hopefully make a stand a bird and off field if we have conflict all three of them and i'm going to school for a lot of doors for a lot of people on this issue no it's 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 soffits. for her. record. that.

god. and neil. first three years for the rights of those children that i see is raising caps right now are sending photos of best smudges day i'm sorry. does that mean anything to you we pray to you all for three years. to know you the people in these camps used to be healed accountable for at least what i want to ask you to do i'm going to do back to the back corner we need to clear this way because people got a good back and forth your eyes. i'm sure more work. you have to get

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breaking news on r t divers make the tragic discovery of up to forty children inside the sunken pleasure cruiser in central russia it went down in minutes killing more than half of the two hundred seven on all. hopes. of finding people alive from the sunken ship but the search now goes on to extract the bodies from under the water president says those responsible for the tragedy are going to be found and prosecuted as he believes the vessel was not in a condition to sail just the details in just a few moments. with all those child remained on that boat shocked relatives struggled to accept how their loved ones were dragged to their deaths when the bulgaria sank in open water during a weekend trip. welcome

you watching our t.v. from moscow it's ten pm here now my name is kevin know it and one story dominates our coverage are how during development in the volga river tragedy in the last few hours divers say they've seen the bodies of up to forty children in the music hall of the sunken pleasure cruiser two hundred seven people are on board the boat got into trouble yesterday more more than half of them have died in a few minutes r.t. an italian overcover in moscow tells us how the investigation is to uncover how the disaster happened first though to tom barton who's near the rescue operation h.q. in tatarstan. hopes have all but of back parades are finding people alive from the sunken ship but the search now goes on to extract the bodies from under the water president it says those responsible for the tragedy and then to be found

and prosecuted as he believes the vessel was not in a condition to save or just the details in just a few. investigators was now discover why the aging boat was allowed to sail into open water in seemingly poor weather in the search for the truth behind the tragedy begins at the highest levels artie's in the telling of a cover in moscow explains you fellas go to tom. he's got the latest for us let's see if we can catch up with tom barton shall we and if we can't get that either let's get some expert view we're hoping to get back to our two correspondents in a second a professor from moscow's academy of water transport told us that the main causes of likely to be bad weather and poor safety regulation. there was information of the ship was overcrowded but the number of passengers.