please. most of the carbon that we buy from across to the earth is millions of years old coal particularly interesting because per unit of energy generated coal actually it may be the cheapest fuel but it also releases the most carbon to be with her as carbon dioxide beginning in earnest with the development of the steam engine in the late seventeen early eighteen hundreds he winds begin to. extract fossil carbon from the earth's crust coal oil natural gas even in the absence of humans over some time period it would be uplifted and subject to erosion and removal would return to the us here but those rates are tiny compared to the ability of humans to go out with large machines to deliver

a large quantities of this material to the surface of the earth where it is burned in the useful generation of energy we have larger quitman that was introduced on surface mines about twenty five years ago here in washington which accounted for the ability to recover coal seams that heretofore been manacled the use of dragline skylab mining scene step work and economic demand and even physically impossible. without the use of that. many people twenty five years ago when the first company said it will bring a bright line they were laughed at and they said there's no way in the world you can get a piece of equipment like in on the narrow ridges of southern appalachia and and they were determined through engineering ability and persistence to make certain that it worked and and it hands.

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where he played these little children i'm sorry little children will be protected this time from treatment for your family currently. the family and you and the people on it become real airline carriers or have. the flight and i guess be able to buy one from every car ever either a parent comes from there now plans are there are a number of years or so they get back to our children to destroy their reaction we're getting. her nearly half of my family's. going to take your partner to. sleep. sleep. it's. never the light down my family's september. let me needs to keep moving her back

for ten days give me any math if dismantling the community. once these lessons are gone there is no war at all actually. there is no more west virginia it don't grow back it's not going to come back i mean you know we had a politician get up on tavi not long ago he said well the reason that jan saying it's going extinct cost the deer are in. order to styles an acre of well. that's nothing. now the process mountaintop removal coal mining is an awesome display of coal extraction engineering it is also quite simple once the site is a benefit clear cutting begins next explosives are used to blast away the earth material coal seam. then machinery including massive shovels called drag lines remove 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 wanted these are legal action. and 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 mountaintop removal mines throughout southern appalachian training the group called their campaign mountain justice summer there was going to be kind of this renewal of coal mining in tennessee 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 in 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 issue that everybody has to dealing with. the same what they're doing

one. since some ways they're dividing our community. i've got nothing against free speech but when you come in here demanded people's jobs and clothes or schools they own 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. their opening strategy was to draw attention to a school situated close to a mountaintop removal site in marsh fork west virginia. the 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 coast slurry which is why it's toxic it's toxic material it has arsenic. chromium there's

a lot of really really bad chemicals in this sludge there is a lake of two point eight billion gallons of coast laurie sitting behind this elementary school four hundred yards up on top of a mile. there's two hundred twenty eight kids in the school and the sophistication of engineering that goes into the construction of that is i suspect not duplicated in any other physical structure anywhere in in the world in one thousand nine hundred two buffalo creek there was this disaster where one of these impoundments 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 destroyed like 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 sits three hundred feet away three hundred fifty feet away to the neighbor sits directly caused the river and you've got serious problems over you've got the magnetite you've got the walk you've got the ammonia they use the bad bad stuff they use diesel fuel in there they mix all this stuff together we've got bad headaches all the time. you've got. problems occurring more and more downer i mean there's. a lot of t.v. ads. in allow them to keep like look all the time just drain and all the time the kids will come home with blisters and their mile 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 accountable and if i was scared i would not let her go there and she will be in first grade she was in kindergarten last year played on the playground three times a day and more like college closed and unlike us that she never came home dirty with or you know any sickness and i've manacle records to prove that she has not had anything other than a common cold up like any other child. we. have. been. frustrated that local schools and government officials you know action on improving safety at marsh work elementary one of the granddaughter kayla attends marsh for commentary launches the pennies a promise campaign to raise six million dollars to build a new school here and so with us here. because. it's

inside they're going to take your money. no money to build. on what you want to build in 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 pennies he put in orders never collected. we'd like to see the governor we have some money to present him. the story of the. step kids everywhere regular doing good to see if we have a young lady here from our fork elementary in. the south and. let's. face it i don't see. people going. to happy schools since. we're

going to the center. and. it's. ok to have a little give we're here for you but this is our campaign ok. now we're let me just say you know. i know we worked on this some we talked about of this for a while but the school yes sir i'm at the school where we at with the local board of education start all over sure that smack up a whole lot we're not going get them you took us for north to protect the way from west we're going to use it women has to go and tell you to ok you know what we're not going to do what we've been doing you put a price on our children say it. in our state you 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 on a soft spot here 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 not about politics we're asking people for money all of this country today is our official announcement of it so it's just it's just going to stay just 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 do a better job and i appreciate i don't mean to be upset and progressive but if this was your child would you not be well you know enough you know happens and she's beautiful and see what we should we care about our child. down there and they're sure it's probably just a lot of issues and i know you're aware there's intimidation going on there a lot of intimidation a teacher spoke out last year now he's been told the bush admin you want to going to do everything in my power that i want to do that means that i do everything in my god god's word 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 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 their memory 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 strip mine and it was just like hell had opened up before me. the money and the coal mining has always gone to the top and been siphoned out by the the owners essentially whether they're corporations or call 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 landscape as disposable and it's all about getting the coal out of the ground as quickly. tolls there is going on in love disco with you bottom yourself. and if you start now out into madness you had to have those tools that let you get a loan created company still. for about three presses put it this way lloyd your coke head company stores they hard g you lived near kochi if you work for the and

they do want kitchen some i also store. and one of the others on matters bad they still owed to company store you could pitch it won't pay a mo. he made company money scrip don't place it wasn't it was company store i got an updated script it's worth more today than it was my. right as usual didn't help either you could make more to dolls day right here sell the kit trick the merchant to use military building check to. give you hand polies stamp you number of what you got your car loaded with coal somewhere on this car you and i want to check to see and be a mule driver lead times i'd be a young boy back to didn't want to stay in school he would pull leave to go in here drop it off unhook his meal from it come to the phone. right now it

real easy to loud rock him if you call him a show your life you got a water tank in a slog. of a little water drip in your career bad writer. and doesn't smell really good but it works pretty good. all. right number one olds. oh yes you know look at the history of our area faithfully they was big communities now today with great rings big company stores everything the people i mean the company housed all down that river all stuff and set their. our schools are good because there's no like always stores or or close and nothing's coming back these are people with this cold company in their tie can take an entire week and never put it it's all going to go there really west virginia broke the big

go on the road with. five years. top removal site 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 my property it's washed away into the stream down below where i live. my property has 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 of getting in touch with me and letting me know what was coming at me and they'd be they trapped me and my kids have a 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 where is the middle of this hail so am i ask a program i saw on. rome. i don't know nobody nutten i don't these million jobs i don't own jobs and if i thank god i do their day and roam across appalachians coal fields mining jobs are vital to local economies my husband us forthwith my essay for just eight or nine years will. we really appreciate massive that's where we get our money that you know our way of living but traditional deep mining requires more workers than 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 . the slurry impalements 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 what 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 dirt and rock 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'll 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 right out of a coal seam but when you disturb that rock and start grinding it up in the 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 a brew of 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 the 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 posterous three hundred nine million gallons of 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 ones and they gave way in the bottom and that's what happened with the structure itself. domingo county west virginia within sight of massey energy c.e.o. don blankenship home carmelita brown has been battling for clean want to see. twenty some years ago. and water turned black like a sprite and asked are the harness grandma has been got up and asked and asked me what was wrong take a man and he said when he looked at it he said my god he said that's close laurie. we went and looked at fifteen wells. sent samples off to the laboratory got the testing 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 poor. are pretty good compared to what it was this morning these documents from the west virginia department of natural resources researched by mountain just to summer volunteers are permits for coal slurry injections that took place in the early one nine hundred eighty s. at the slurry impoundment located approximately two miles above carmelita brown's home this permit shows that over two hundred eight million gallons of slurry was injected in one thousand nine hundred eighty four in one thousand nine hundred five this permit describe slurry injections in one thousand nine hundred four into an abandoned underground mind 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 thousand 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 on the ground i have no idea where it goes. if i actually aired it was to pull out the moral for some reason went bankrupt or whatever all the story ponds you know who is responsible for the county we got the paperwork we know the calories are responsible for the cleanup of the floor. tell me go have it nobody wanted to help us nobody want nobody was concerned and it wasn't only made it was oh my mate was that down this road well the patients i see for all have significant medical problems other people don't have. a greater number of people of all timers disease than old timers disease memory loss i've seen a great number of people who have numbness and tingling of their arms and legs which indicates a heavy metal. accumulation i've seen a fair amount of just ill health mannix they were members on

a kidney dialysis another neighbor a man as is his last kidney had 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 causes kidney damage. now several people not necessary has lost babies they carried them six months and have maybe stillborn.

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break the news on our t.v. divers find the bodies of as many as forty children trapped when the pleasure boat they were on. today has been declared a mourning for the victims of the accident. hopes. of finding people alive from the sunken ship but the search goes on to extract the bodies from the. president says those responsible for the tragedy found and prosecuted as he believes that it was not in a condition to save the details contest. has relatives has struggled to come to terms with the loss of their loved ones of officials say the. boats failed to come to the survivors will face severe punishment.

and six o'clock on a tuesday morning in moscow russia's capital. glad to have you with us divers have found the bodies of up to forty children trapped in a room on a sunken pleasure cruiser on the volga river two hundred seven people were on board when the boat capsized around half of them have perished tom barton is near the rescue operation headquarters in tatarstan. the people here have been waiting hour upon hour with their heads down they haven't wanted to talk to was the media some of them may be related to these young victims some of them to other victims on board the boat some of them may still not have heard about the people they love but this is certainly a great blow and puts a lot of confirmation to the fears of rescuers and their like that none of those

children inside that room managed to escape to try and glance back at the journey that this pope took it was sailing along the volga river popular river cruise location lots of lots of people on the weekends on the holidays and some a light to go along that when the boat got very rapidly into trouble and when i say very rapidly the whole thing had gone underwater in under three minutes this is what gave rise to such a terrible death toll of the fact that people didn't even have time to put on their life jackets or to organize a proper kind of evacuation before the water was on them or they had to jump into the water one of the relatives of victims on the boat earlier spoke about the ordeal that she has been through. the baldwins of bed there are three of them and be cabin my son my daughter in law and my grandson my son said he tried to open the cabin door holding his child when the wave crashed into them and he lost grip of my grandson he he said.