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that sweden is nothing more than a staging post in the u.s. . well let's hear naughty a multi award winning reporter about one of the biggest environmental and human rights catastrophes in american history of. 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 come from story pot. and i don't know. what to expect in our. maybe a few more years from now on. i'm trying to help this went down tremendously. and i don't ever look to be healthy as i don't have all of the fine now thank you the thing i can do feel things. that are only thing i want now i want a good moral i want them to quit the pump and are quitting jake and whatever

they're doing i want them to quit that. and. i want to repay them. for the last twenty years. and hard. you can't make it without good water. through the. booze. 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 in the. december twenty second two thousand and eight coal 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 and 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 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 at that where the authors are warning people to believe that they were absolutely step 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 of 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 contour 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 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 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 that's 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 plant for pennies a promise. our government start there were a local school board and state school board will do it in a way it shows you know and parents and grandparents it's up to you to get the job there were the kids you know we're going to go raise the money for school one way or the other. place we go to school we'll tell you know being

a. teacher because it's showing that our government has come to this or we can't get up and work children. we're going to watch the charleston west virginia the worse we do you see you all know this is the right awareness and raise money for new school it also opens a lot of doors of the plane to chaplin in our communities as far as mountaintop removal what it's doing to those kids in the mining industry to archimedes with the probing diable what what it's actually doing to our children the governor made us tightening our kids our future by our kamar he said i almost open more charges of mars for don't have them all. at least the.

burning of coal was for over a century has been one of the most deadly things that humans have done through the air around them even after one hundred years of burning coal and after one hundred years of so-called improvement of their 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 mine 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 you told us he was widely credited for giving bush west virginia so it's 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 and its white wording changing the clean water act designating waste as bill this wording change here the way 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 let's go with a special don 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 automobiles that are fuel differently and that's going to exciting times 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 but folks we need more supply you know work at spike and back here in the back and he said i'm around repairing a machine at this for coal. we need to use coal we got a lot of it and we need to make sure. we are 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 i when i met with a cold coming to my property hear me and my family members and they tell me that we don't give a damn about people and carry cholera we don't give a damn about the people on top that mountain all we care about is property we make and and it was the dollar i would have bought and that however i know we were playing there and if as vice president called it would auctions using kids from mexico night a night we told me this gibson created the stanley ears 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 of tryna find the symmetry and in one thousand nine hundred ninety to now on the third arrest eighteen and go north orders. to people who listen now even own family. now you know have i turned a corner how pressed the knob on me or that was their words before this no lonely there in my own mind. or just for. the young ads of the day were never seen where i've seen the young as of the day were never seen the mountains with no remittance no boundaries where you 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 mr ward. 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 the 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 i want a day where we're going to go on the mine site at the cemetery. and we get to how ward around and different things going on and i it's just for me a safety how i deal with joy and public health forty zero gold it could get to cold even under a graveyard. after filling out a jennifer cation and release forms a group is permitted to enter the mine so if you know one and a half mile hike to the family cemetery. sleet i. said.

well i did. and he just signed a release to go basically if he were to be. heard it's which if i was. the first quarter why risk one man in my life was at the heart of the waterhole not there and i'm the one who got us there from six seven hundred foot how are there now. at the moment give me birth even though you give me the right. 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 well i want to hear what i hear from your people are taking part in history you claim the cemetery been here for two

hundred seventy years and never had it many people want it and the last hundred fifty years ice time not how to come through here the winds are journalism kind of the sense we've got another story here i'll tell you what else they said to me. and these people i mean we meet 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 it's not the case and the word looked down on us a johnson on a study 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 poked a permit to massey energy to expand its plant could more fork elementary by building a second coal silo the d.p. to terminate the second coal silo was placed outside the permitted boundary of

three hundred feet from the school after maps of the preparation plant were found to be accurate. we're. going to. pull. out. the stand up and be free. from our grand our fly. through our. elementary and i will stay and i will fight and i will try to get something done for these children. no more. we're going to.

go down to look younger let's. look. at. how. we live our. lives. well you know i could talk to as many folks 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 and. one of our

goals is to come here and hopefully. sandberg and i feel that 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. though 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 a nod 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. know her or her.

real hot chili and nailed the first three years for the rights of those children that i see it's raining hats right now are saying that will tire of the flood stay and serve it. does that mean anything to you we pray for you all for three years and have seven am going to write the pink windies capital used to be healed accountable for. the one i want to ask you to do you know i'm going to go back to the back corner we need to clear this way because people are going to get back for her and i. knew there were more for her clearly for her. because we were here in new school at the one you're going to hear any playing here

i'm telling you we are not budging there's more coming god. whip around i hear people just like you know what they're offering their field will . remain in a whisper in the air while he's fighting them worrying want results today we want our kids here's a. share. right for our kids a gift. for girls day in a cold preview. here on the wrong side of the man. we are the cradle they bring their money out them out of the world farmer where you could be took care of her children our children. before the state can get

involved in issues such as whether school should be the new school should be built a decision comes first be made at the local level. i've heard the local school board with the decision on the new school that march forward before a vote of the people of raleigh. so they can determine by phone from sales so i'm going to join me. now or talk about cory. byrd speakers. here. if you. can hear those new grass may say. people. are still here who. are right.

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