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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 from and i am a komondor that's come from story part. and i don't know. what to expect and our thoughts. are maybe a few more years from our. and my health was not down tremendously.

and i don't ever look to be helped as i don't ever look at the front now thinkers and they invite them to feel. that i only thing along now i want a good moral i want them to quit the pump and are quitting jake i whatever they're doing i want them to quit that. and. i'll mop the radiator. for the last twenty years. it's been hard. you can't make it without good water. comes 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 and no.

one 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 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 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. 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. that where the authors are warning people to believe that there were absolutely scripts in appalachia downs 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 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 but these are 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 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 of thousands or 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 at wylie has formulated a new plan for pennies a promise. our government shako do it or

a local school board state school board or do it in the way it should listen to you know entire grandparents it's up to you to get the job the pretty kids you know we're going to go raise the money for school one way or the other the overall place we built in our community. that's the key to it showing that our government didn't come to this we can't get up and done for children. we're going last week charleston west virginia the worst to 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 mine to chapman in our communities as far as mountaintop removal what it's doing to those kids in the mining industry to archimedes with the probate

the giant hole what what it's actually doing to our children the governor made a statement our kids are our future my argument he said i are most open for our kids up north fork don't have them are. burning of coal for over a century has been one of the most deadly things there and 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 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 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 called as he was widely credited for giving bush west virginia so it's no secret that he had a large debt to pay to the coal industry and they made sure he paid it throughout 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 like two thousand and one the bush administration made of white working changing the clean water act designating waste as bill this wording she 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 what those with a special bond to our state ladies and gentlemen the president of the united states thank. you 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 be exciting 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 but folks we need more supply you know work sparking back here in the back and he said i'm around repairing a machine additional code. we need to use quote we got

a lot of it and we need to make sure. thank. you around this little boy 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 when i met with the coal company to ride on my property here me and my family members and they tell me it we don't give a damn about people and have her car and we don't give a damn about the people on top of that mountain all we care about is property we are making and it was the dollar it was her body and the power. no in between there and it is a vice president cultural reduction in eugene kids from magical and i can rightly tell me this gibson created the stanley heirs 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 criminal family cemetery and in one thousand nine hundred ninety and now on the third arrest eighteen year ago when i started this i couldn't get to people through this and not even my own family. now you know have i turned a corner how press the knob one day or that was there was before there's no lonely there in my own mind. or just for. the young of the day were never seen you were half sane the young as of the day you were never see the mountains with no remans no boundaries we could roam. gibson uses the land of cane for 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 us and you take a picture of a mountain for we're 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 the family members have access to these cemeteries requests are often not easily granted on the morial day of q two thousand and six gibson and a group of supporters make a trip to the cemetery where they want a day we're going to go on the mine site of the cemetery. and we've got to how lord around in different things going on and i it's just to me. how i deal with joy and public health forty zero gold it could get the gold even under a graveyard. after filling out

a jennifer case and release forms the group was permitted to enter the mine site to begin a one and a half mile hike to the family cemetery. sleet i. said it. didn't mention an inch a sign a release to go basically she was sitting. on a hard switch if i was. the first world or how i respond then in my life was if that's how i. the water would not there now we've got six seven hundred foot high wall there now. and my mama gave me birth even in the right. well. you can get in a cemetery through their color as your round. they used to be a road over here. one

right here. over here the other wanted. one i hear. two people are taking part in history their claim december third been here for two hundred seventy years and never had many people on it and the last hundred fifty years i stand on talk of come through here the winds are gentleness or kind and since we got a minister here i won't tell you what else they said tonight. and these people are lame we need these graves the first time in julian come here four years ago we had caves going to have dates on them they're no longer here and they didn't say that we came and got him. and it's not the case and the words are to star in going to say alan johnson want to say is we're just not been heard here for alone time and mid august of two thousand and six the west virginia department of environmental

protection we spoke to permit to massey energy to expand its plant more for kalam entry 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 found to be accurate. we're losing. the. house. nobody will stand up. stand up and be free. i stand up for my granddaughter five

i stand up for her for all i represent more than three and i will and i will cry and i will write something down for. no more alex we're going to. lose our sleep going to. look. at. how.

well. i could talk to as many folks i have along the way that a lot of folks shows for a lot of folks on the issues we've raised money for the new school and. one of our goals here and hopefully talk in. the sea and the birds and i feel that we have copies of all three of them and i play the story 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 mine overturned the west virginia department of environmental protections ruling that canard 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 is office.

right. then. or the earth. we have bought. and nailed for three years for the rights of those children that i see it's raining how sad right now are say hurtful to her and the flood stay and serve it. does that mean anything to you we prayed for you all for three years and of supernanny is going to really listen to people in these cattle to be held accountable for. what i want to ask you to do you know what i'm going to do back to back corner we need to clear this way because people are going to get back

in for her and i. knew there were more of her her. because we were going to school after one year we won't hear anything here i'm telling you we are not budging there is more coming was. wish around my year just might look her off in their field i. can't wait for a meeting with her in the air while she's finding out we want results today are good kids to. share. what i did for our kids a gift. for girls day in the coal fields. they're on the wrong side of the mound. we are the cradle

they bring their money out and now. farmer where you could be took care of our children. for the state and good old business you such as whether school should be a new school should be built a decision must first be made at the local. currency the local school board with the decision on a new school that more or before i go to the people of raleigh. so they can determine while grown from themselves so i'm going to be joining me. now or could i talk about him or. her visitors. or. if you. can hear the. say.

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