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 chromium and there's a lot of really really bad chemicals in this sludge there is a lake of it's two point eight billion gallons of costarring sitting behind this elementary school four hundred yards on top of a mile. there's two hundred twenty eight kids in the school. the sophistication of engineering that goes into the construction of the islands is i suspect not duplicated in any other physical structure anywhere in in the world in one nine hundred seventy two buffalo creek there was this disaster where one of these impoundments basically blew out millions of gallons of this nasty sludge and water went barreling down a small holler and killed one hundred twenty five people destroyed that 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

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

department of environmental protection revoked a permit to massey energy to expand its plant in marsh fork elementary by building a second coal silo the d.p.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 inaccurate. we're. going to. stand up to the plate. and our why i stand up to her. and i will and i will by and i will. get something done for. more. for. our families going to. look. at. how. well. i could talk to as many folks as i have along the way that 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. sandberg and i feel that we have copied all three of them and i believe this call for a lot of doors for a lot of people on this issue note 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