can mercury. the tennessee valley authority estimates 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 with throwing away the next generation's most viable resource and that is water and one of the best sources of water anywhere in the world and maybe the best source of fresh water in 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 in the u.s. news and world reports and all of that where the authors are warning people to believe that that we're 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 forest in elton'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 to 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 and wiley has formulated a new plan for pennies a promise. our government do it 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 for the kids you know we're going to money for school one warrior another. like we do school in our community and. it's it's showing that our government has come to this we can't get up and for children to. be.

if. 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 it also opens a lot of doors of the blanket chapman in our communities as far as mountaintop removal what it's doing to those in in in the mining industry to our communities this is a perfectly viable one what it's actually doing to our children the governor made us tightening our kids our future by our tomorrow he should die almost up and for our kids at marsport don't have them our. little. burning of coal those 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. it 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 and 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 callers 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 through out mine safety throughout the rollback of regulations on dirty power plants through a variety of places he essentially stocked all the regulatory agencies with with former coal industry lobbyists or executives by two thousand and one the bush administration made a slight wording change in the clean water act designating waste its 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 with those with a special bond to our state please and gentleman the president of the united states 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 fuel differently. and that's going to be exciting times for america and we're just new technologies coming down and we can encourage those technologies so conservation. take a logical development 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 got a lot of it and we need to make sure that we. wait around. for the past twenty years larry gibson and his family have been fighting to preserve their ancestral home place on k. for down outside charleston west virginia and when i met with the coal company to fight on my property here me and my 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 on top of a mountain all we care about is profit we are making and it was the dollar it was our body and the. know we were playing there and it is the vice president cultural production in eugene kids from mexico one thousand nine hundred three told me this gibson created the stanley heirs 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's cemetery and in ninety nine to now own the clearest photo in a team goal when i started this i couldn't get to people to listen now even my own family. now know about turned

a corner i'll press the knob one day or that was their words before the snowy there in my own mind. the lord is. the young of the day were never seen where i've seen the young as of the day were never seen the mountains the earth. no raymond's no boundaries for you to roam gibson uses the land of capered mountain to educate the public about the effects of mountaintop removal for the biggest questions people asked me if i had a picture of the mountain before was destroyed here paperno 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 he's lee 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 we're going to go on the mine site at the cemetery over there and we get to how well it around and different things going on and. i still do me a safety. zone and probably count forty or goaded to get to cold even into a graveyard. after filling out a den of occasion and release forms the group is permitted to enter the mine site in a one and a half mile hike to the family cemetery. sleet i. didn't mention i need to sign a release to go visit my family. and i did so with you. the first

waterhole i risk one man in my life was up then how i. the water not there now we've got six seven hundred foot high wall there and. my mama give me birth. give me life. well. you can get to the cemetery through there are going to go around. there used to be a road over here. for one right here. over here the other one. one i hear. your people are taking part in history you have claimed the cemetery been here for two hundred seventy years never had as many people on it in the last hundred fifty years and ice time on top of come through here they wouldn't or journalism 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 caves phones and had baits on him they're no longer here if they hadn't been saying that we came and got him. and not the case and in order to down is going to say on johnson alongside his word has not been heard here for a loan long 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 plant were found to be an accurate.

live. nobody would stand that. nobody will stand up to the street. i stand up for my grandmother fly i stand up to her forty kids as well i represent don't feel remorse for elementary and i will stay on and i will fight and i will do whatever it takes to get something done for those children that they issued allow him no more alex will you know that it. was such. an. when i was.

little in the league. will be locked up. but it. was. well know i couldn't talk to as many folks as i have along the way that a lot of folk shows for revenge a kind a lot of folks on the issue we've raised a little money for the new school only issue in one of our goals for us is to come here and hopefully make a stand a bird and awful if we have conflict all three of them and i believe this go on 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 messy 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 is office. for her. record. and neil. first three years for the rights of those children that i see it's

raining outside right now are setting a best smudges day i'm sorry it. doesn't mean anything to you we brits you know for three years kind of sympathetic to their i think when these can't be used to be healed accountable for that 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 sure. i'm sure more work. to get a new school that's the one you're broke your i ain't playing here i'm telling you we're not budging there's more coming.

your. way around the iron fist fight you know what they're offering their bill will go to market rate were made in a whisper in the air while he's trying to worry wart result today we want our kids didn't. share. wired to our kids and their. company and their coach feel. they're on the wrong fellow the bound. you know we are the people that bring their money out of them out of the little farmer where you can be took care of her build our children. for the state good job in this you such as whether school should be the. new school should be built a decision goes first we have to look. i've heard the low. the school board with the decision on a new school that march forward before

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day of mourning across russia for around one hundred thirty people killed on a pleasure cruise. just two days ago. with. fresh appeal against extradition in london's high court all the made allegations that sweden is nothing more than a staging post to the united states. hoping to jump start a stalled israeli palestinian peace talks even as it criminalizes criticism. a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow research shame flags are at half mast across russia as the country

mourns the victims of its worst boat accident in three decades more than seventy people have now been officially confirmed dead while dozens of bodies remain trapped underwater it's after an overloaded pleasure cruiser sank in the volga river in the republic of tatarstan on sunday rescuers say the chances of finding more survivors are remote. is following the events that. there are thousands of people that have turned out here to the riverboat station in khazan which was to be the stopping point of the bulgaria on its pleasure cruise up the volga they've come to lay flowers and to pay their respects to the people who drowned either trying to get out of the ship all those who were trapped in it in sunday's tragedy there's also a funeral starting to take place today of some of the victims twenty three families will start burying their relatives today from the sinking of the gold area ship of feelings here. one of the amends for greg that this happened and moving really also

into anger a lot of people feeling that this was very much a tragedy which could have been avoided. and not long ago on the twenty three as we traveled on these motives he was in a poor condition then yes because most serial times during her trip they would have to stop for standing right here because the engine was working properly we had her prom are numbered area even. those who have died to you i feel especially sorry for the children the little once it's a terrible loss. but when the boat was sinking and the crew was in there and they were busy saving their own lives we still hope there are two. i have survived your house in an air pocket or some other way but yet we still believe that our little angel is a line from the start of the moment the rescue operation well it has really turned into more of a recovery operation but the tempo has not let up we were at the the site of the center of the rescue operation yes.