ok back here with. today's news and the week's top stories recovery crews started a somber task of lifting the ship that rapidly wind down the volga river last sunday taking nearly one hundred thirty lives relatives and investigators hope for raising the vessel will help establish why the disaster occurred. and publicly to save the stricken empire as loyal allies leave and police close in

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legs . most of the carbon. we've gotten from across the earth is millions of years old poles particularly interesting because per unit of energy generated coal actually may be the cheapest fuel but it also releases the growth curve of to pick up the spirit curve so i begin to get a ernest with the development of the steam engine you know the late seventy's and early eighty's hundreds it will be good to be an extract fossil carbon from leader of crust coal oil retro gas even early absence of humans over time period it would be uplifted and subject them to. return to the atmosphere 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 the burden of the useful generation of better g.'s we have larger quitman that was introduced on surface lands about twenty five years ago here at licensing which accounted for the the ability to recover coal seams that heretofore had been unmanageable the use of dragline still allowed the mining scenes that were an economical to mine and even physically impossible. without the use of that. many people twenty five years ago when the first company said it will bring in ragland they were laughed at and they said there's no way in the woods you get a piece of equipment like that on the narrow ridges southern at lax and they were

determined through engineering abilities and persistence to make certain that it worked and end it hey it's. the man was pleasant. things to. lose. digital be. some. easy things. liza's.

lose. weight play games little children i am sorry little children will be protected this time from human greed and i'm finally home country. yet your family if you am to be fit to come and i'm coming over here. with a mind that i can be able to find work for me to come and for my the current president is not crazy there are a number of years for think they're gambling our children to destroy their work to get her during her visit my. family. are going to sleep here and are going. to.

sleep. it's. never the right down to sleep to. be anything keeping her back to me is community happy if mantling needs to be. once these lessons are gone there is no more of a life. there is no more with the game it don't grow back it's not going back i mean you know we had a politician get up on saving up and go he said well the reason that jan saying it's being extinct because the deer are in. order bought this thousand acres. that's not a solid rock now process talk or move a coal mine is an awesome display of coal extraction engineering it is also quite simple once a site is a jennifer clear coating begins next explosives are used to blast away the earthen

tiriel pools and. then machinery completing massive shovels called dragon lines remove the overburden which is then deposit it in adjacent valleys called valley fills mountaintop removal coal mining can bring down the elevation of a peak by hundreds of feet sites are often thousands of acres in size but i think these are like actual. let's park and written a. book 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 appalachians training the group called their campaign mountain just this summer there was to be kind of this renewal of coal mining as i see 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 of 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 one national issues that everybody has to dealing. see what they're doing. since some why is there a divide in our community. i've got nothing against free speech but when you come in here the mandan people's jobs and clothes are schools they own and i own my own although you're lucky you don't get hurt but. 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 they're opening strategy was to draw attention to a school situated close to a mountaintop removal site and marsh fork west virginia c'mon 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 khowst slurry which is why it's toxic it's toxic material it has arsenic layer artery chromium and there's a lot of really really bad chemicals in this sludge there is a lake of the two point eight billion gallons of coast guard 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 it goes into the construction of the is asked suspect and not duplicated in any other physical structure anywhere in in the world in one nine hundred seventy two buffalo creek there was this disaster or one of these impoundments basically blew out millions of gallons of this nasty sludge water went barreling down a small holler and killed one hundred twenty five people just roll with it 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 schoolchildren from the cold processing facility located directly behind marsh fork complementary so i searched three hundred feet away three hundred fifty feet away and they are systematically across the river and you got seriously little problems over a doubt the magnetite got to walk you've got the ammonia they used as a bad bad stuff they use diesel fuel in there and they mix all the stuff together you've got bad headaches all the time you've got. problems occurred more and more down there i mean there's. a lot of kids. with asthma in a lot of a cold all the time of this drain and all the time that kids are coming home with a

listers and their little tiny blisters the size of a plane and it 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 . kept going to pilot and i would not buy her and she were vampire scrapes with in kindergarten last year played on a playground three town today. more like collard cars and like that but he never came home helping dirty with color or you know any thickness and i made a call records that prove this he has he's not having a thank other than a common cold up like any other child. we. get. frustrated local schools and government officials you know action on some of the safety of north fork elementary headline news granddaughter

kayla attends march for commentary launches the pennies and promise campaign to raise six million dollars to build a new school and so it was here. that. was inside that building as a terminal. there was nothing else still lets you want to deliver this. because i don't like. to start the pennies or promise campaign wiley and his granddaughter taylor presented governor with over four hundred dollars in pennies he could orders a collector. we like to see the governor would have some money to present him. once a story to. tell stuff go on kids everywhere are you and your governor good to see you we have

a young lady here from more fork elementary like her usually pretty the stuff in there which. i don't. even know your grades so you have to schools some of them so you could use a certain slim ok it's there you. know you have a little girl you are you with us this is our pay and find the care. that we're. let me just say you know so far as i know we worked on this some talks about the force of the school yes or the school where we are with the local board of education let's start all over sure it's back up a whole lot we're not going to get him you took us for north to protect the way the west we're going to do it women test it we still won't tell you today ok and you know what we're not going to do what we've been doing you put a price on our children so you know yes we're used to or dislike of what haitian in our state eat be put a price this is no of them are a mental issue this is

a little human vain a pride for two years to work with you on this and i've been ignored i don't mean to put you in a soft spot you're good enough is enough enough it's enough we need to get this took care of your business with these coal companies as europe is and you know politics this isn't all about politics we're asking people for money all of this country today's our official announcement of it so it's just it's just going to super hero status we're going to raise five to two 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 in progress that but if this was your child it would be. well you know that you know him since she's beautiful so what we've seen we care about our children down there and there are serious problems with a lot of issues and i know you're aware of there's intimidation going on here a lot of intimidation the teacher the spoke out last year now he's in forty percent of you know we all want to you going to do this how do you do everything in my heart that i want to tap into that means that i do everything in my car because

with that we're going to be. turning this jeff goodell's 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 and i thought that electricity was just something to flow down from a golden glow in the sky i never gave any thought to where it came from the idea that coal produce. since 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 remember i first knew i was driving outside of charleston and i saw the boom on one of the big drag line swinging above the hills and i pulled off the road and i hiked out through the woods to the top of this hill and i got this view down into this group 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 by their corporations are called 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 grounds quickly please. i. didn't love disco with you but you still like. if you start now to manners you had

to have those tools but they let you get them out of created company stock. for about three prices put this way lawyer co-create said company stores they are gee you lived in your copy if you work for a beer and you didn't want to pitch in someone else's store. and one of the others on matters that they still owed the company store you couldn't kid just won't claim . they made company money because scrip don't price it wasn't you that was accomplished or asked i got an updated screen puts worth more today and it was. all right. you surely need help you know you could make more to dolls. right here's erica to track how much you make so use mail to come and check to. give you a hand polies thank you number of what you got your car loaded with coal somewhere on this car you and i we checked it would be

a mule driver well terms i'd be go on board. in one state school he would probably need to go in here drop it off unhook each meal from a post on the phone. now it real easy loud rock him if you call him a show your life you got a water tank in a slot. of no little power trip in your career about a senior writer. can do spirit is good but it works pretty good. growing on. you look at the history of our area faithfully they with a communities database with kate rings and company stores everything lots of people i mean it was a company house that really our stuff can set their. our schools are good because there's no money at all with the wars or or close them down nothing is

coming back these are other state people with this coal company in their tie can take an entire week and never put nothing dark it's all going to go there wally west virginia broke in go in there to go on the. five years ago. talk removal site moved into the head waters of the stream their home in the past five years i've been flooded seven times there's been about five acres of 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 one relocate my property is worthless and the mining company had the option of getting in touch with me and let me know what was coming at me and they'd be they trapped

me and my kids 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 don't home to it i live in the middle of this why. because it's ok it's ok that maybe he'll be only from southern west virginia where is the middle of this tale so i ask my son. roan's. i don't know nobody nothing i don't own species me in jobs i don't own jobs and i thank god they are doing their day and roam across appalachians coal fields mining jobs are vital to local economies my husband and for forth and i think for. eight or nine years will. we really appreciate us say that's where we get our money that you know our way of living but traditional mining

requires more workers and 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. and the slurry impoundments the way that we dispose of the refuse that comes from the cleaning of coal which is literally nothing but dirt and rot coming that's with year of 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 know believe that you're something only it's the indigenous dirt 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 will 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 out of a coal thing but when you disturb that rock and start grinding it up in a 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 . six of these are from the post martin county. that the biggest environmental disaster in the southeastern united states six a fals representing what that material that entered our rivers and streams really

is which i find rather prosperous three hundred nine million gallons 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 the structure itself. in ringgold county west virginia within sight of massey energy c.e.o. don blankenship whom carmelita brown has been battling for clean want to see. twenty some years ago. no not a lot of time but like shrike an asteroid harness crying going to mass has been got up and asked and asked me what was wrong he came here and he said when he looked at it he said i'll find god he said that's postcard. we went and looked at fifteen wells. said the samples off to the laboratory got the test results back and

did some analysis on those results and it was pretty compelling that we needed to do more research down there i've 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 a summer volunteers are permits for coal slurry injections that took place in the early one nine hundred eighty s. cut the slurry impoundment located approximately two miles above carmelita ground zero on this permit shows that over two hundred eight million gallons of slurry was injected in nineteen eighty-four in one thousand nine hundred five this permit describes thirty injections and nineteen eighty-four into an abandoned underground mine that 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 well that's the oxymoron of the century underground injection control and what control do we have when we inject something underground i have no idea where it goes these were last in there the with the pull out the north with armories went bankrupt or whatever all these three times you know who is responsible for that count we got the paperwork we know that calories are responsible for the clean up of the story. tell you don't ever worry nobody wanted to help us nobody want nobody was concerned and it wasn't only maybe it was oh my maybe that damn it's right well the patients i see for all have significant medical problems other people don't have. a greater number of people with alzheimer's disease and old timers disease is 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 i've just looked ill health my next door neighbors on a kidney dialysis another neighbor a man his own has lost kidney had he 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 the causes kidney to. now several people not necessary has lost babies. carried on six months and have my be still more. wealthy british style it's sometimes. hard. market why not. find out what's

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