talk about you watching r t live from moscow here's a look at today's news on the week stop story recovery crews start the software task of lifting a ship that rapidly went down in the volga river last sunday taking nearly one hundred thirty lives of relatives and investigators hope raising the vessel will help establish why the disaster occurred. brooker murder story saga of the tycoon publicly pete's on the high of save his stricken empire as loyal allies leave and

the police close in on both sides of the atlantic the news corp mogul faces a grilling by british m.p.'s and allegations of hurting the phones of nine eleven victims. losing battles but winning the war of the libyan rebels earn foreign recognition and axes to put up the assets but they are buyers struggle to get to grips on the ground the opposition's failing to advance on a strategic eastern oil town suffering heavy casualties. loss the west ham the wallet as america and the eurozone brace to save their collapsing economies in the face of storing data plummeting credit scores u.s. congress needs to raise the debt ceiling to avoid default while italy's on of original meeting and bailout. next an award winning documentary about one of the greatest environmental and human rights disasters in american history. on the day of this interview the small creek less than one mile from their home

close black and i it's not normal that's come off in a panic all manzarek out on starting point. and i don't know. what the state in our thoughts. and maybe a few more years from now law which i'm not helpless went down tremendously. and i don't ever let them be helped as i don't ever look at the fine and i don't think there's anything i can do feeling. that only thing i want now i want a good moral i want them to know we have a pump and are quitting jake and whatever they're doing i want them to quit that. and. i want all up to be better. for the last twenty years. it's been hard. you can't make it without good water.

through the. currently there are over one hundred forty billion gallons of coal slurry contained in more than one hundred impoundments in west virginia alone the total quantity of coal slurry in the rest of southern appalachians is no. on 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 and is believed to contain toxic compounds including arsenic can mercury. the tennessee valley authority has meets

the cost of the cleanup job of 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 and one of the best sources of water anywhere in the world and maybe the best source of fresh water and proximity to one of the world's largest fastest ford populations. and you know with all the hubbub and all the lawsuits and all the carrying on goes on in there in the press and you know the vanity fair's and and us news and world reports and all at that where the authors are warning people to believe that that we're absolutely a script in appalachia down to nothing. in order to get the mineral is patently untrue it's patently untrue that when you look around at the forest of mountains

that we have a recent environmental impact statement from the e.p.a. custom made 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 return to their original contour these mines are routinely granted wavers mined areas are typically graded and then hydra 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 to go from something like a rock mass that has essentially no soil risen 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 project at a loss for mountaintop removal mining it'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 shako do it or a local school board state school board or do it in a way it shows and you know and parents and grandparents it's up to you to get the show for the kids you know we're going to go raise the money for schools one way or another. take we go get the school built in our community. that it's rich it's showing that our government should come to this and we can get nothing done for children the. leak.

we're going last week 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 and applying to chapman in our communities as far as mountaintop removal what it's doing to those kids in the mining industry to our community digital perfectly viable what what is actually doing to our children the governor made us tighten our kids our future by our kamar he should die almost up and for our kids on march fourth don't tell them are. burning of color for over a century has been one of the most definitely things that and humans have done it to regain air around 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 corporations 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 mine coal 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. the polish 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

and safety throughout the rollback of regulations on dirty power plants through a variety of places he essentially stock 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 it's mountaintop removal mining throughout southern appalachians. on january twenty second of two thousand and two president bush returned to west virginia just such a wonderful day for us and for west virginia to host a special meal with 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 fuel differently and that's going to 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 folks we need more supply you know work welcome back here in the back and he said repairing a machine it takes for coal. we need to use coal we've got a lot of it and we need to make sure. i am thank. you look 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 come into my property here me and my family members and they told me they were we don't give a damn about people and. we don't give a damn about what they have won top at melun all we care about is profits we are

making and it was the dollar i would have bought and the top line no in between there and it is the right spread of cultural production and using kids from magical ninety nine to be told me this gibson created the stanley ears foundation fusing to sell his family's fifty plus acres to coal companies before mountaintop removal began his family cemetery was surrounded by mountain bridges today the family cemetery looks out on reclaimed mountaintop removal sites eighteen years ago when i came back and it took me four years to clear my family a cemetery and in from one thousand nine hundred now on its way to rest. and when i started this i couldn't get to people who listen now even my own family. now know about turning the corner i press the knob on

a oh that was their words before the snowy there in my own mind. oh yeah the lord is for. the young i did they were never seen you were i've seen the young as are they were never see the mountains the earth no rumors no boundaries for your own. gibson uses the land it came for 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 orange. 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 that family members have access to the cemeteries requests are often not he's lee 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 we're going to go on the mine site at the cemetery over there and we've got to how rolling around in different things going on and i it's just for me if the whole idea would be shown in public health forty zero gold it could get to cold even into a graveyard. after filling out a jennifer cation and release forms a group is permitted to enter the mine site in a one and a half mile hike to the family cemetery. seat i. didn't mention having to sign a release to. find it hard to switch. the first order or why risk one man in my life was up the house on the water i was not there

and i'm the one who gets them six seven hundred foot high wall there now my momma giving birth he's not in the right. well. you can get there are some acquired through there are color as your around. there used to be a road over here. one right here. so we're here to tell it. what i hear. you people are taking part in history they're playing the cemetery been here for two hundred seventy years and never had this many people on it and the last hundred fifty years and ice time not gonna come through here the winds are generous and kind and since we got a minister here i will tell you what else they said to me. and these people flame

beneath these graves for the first time in julian come here four years ago we had a case going to have bates on and they're no longer here if they didn't say that we came and got him. and it's not the case and the words are. only going to say johnson and i say is we're just not been heard here for a long long long time in mid august of two thousand and six the west virginia department of environmental protection poked a permit to massey energy can expand its plant and more for column 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 were found to be accurate.

nothing worth losing. the. house. nobody was free and. nobody would stand up to me for. i stand up for my grandmother why i stand up to her will i represent. a man free and i will stay and i will fight and i will try to get something done for. more. we're going to. lose our belief going to. look. at.

how. well. i could talk to as many folks i have along the way but a lot of folks shows. we've raised a little money for the new school and. one of our goals is to come here and hopefully in. yes and over and i feel that we have conflicts all three of them and i believe the school for a lot of the work 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 the

west virginia department of environmental protections ruling that denied massey energy a permit to build a second coal silo behind the school and 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 soffits. thank. you. for the honor of the earth. where. we have. children and their first three years for the rights of those children that i see it's raining hats right now are saying that will tire of us flood stay

and serve it. does that mean anything to you we pray for you all for three years of supernanny canary pink when these cattle used to be held accountable for that matter what i want to ask you 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 it back for her i. remember her clearly her. new hampshire primary we're here on newsroom after what you're going to hear any plane here i'm telling you we are not budging there's more coming was. whisper around my ear get this right now what you're offering fairfield will know.

more made in a whisper in the air while there were more results today were more our kid didn't. care. what i did for our kids and here. for company in the cold field. there on the wrong side of the damned. we are the cradle of brain get money out that man. farmer where you can be took care of her children are killed. before the state can get old to miss you such as whether school should be a new school should be built a decision goes first be made at the local. currency the local school board with the decision on a new school that morning for four people rolling. so they can determine by

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