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America’s Most Endangered Mountains – Coal River Mountain, WV Pledge to Help End Mountaintop Removal. Visit: www.iLoveMountains.org – - – COMMUNITY STORY – - – “We don’t live where they mine coal. They mine coal where we live…. Our concern today is our homes, our environment, and the sustainability of the environment.” Lorelei Scarbro’s house in the little community of Rock Creek, West Virginia is the same house her husband built with his own two hands when they were married, on land handed down to him from his parents. They raised their children in this house. Lorelei watches the deer in the field below, enjoys a fresh mountain stream running by the property and says that her granddaughter takes particular delight in the wild turkeys that frequent the neighborhood. Her husband, a coal miner for 35 years who died of of black lung, is buried in the family cemetery next to their home. Lorelei’s property in Rock Creek borders Coal River Mountain, one of the most beautiful mountains in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia, and one of the few untouched mountains in the region. Miles of pristine creeks and waterfalls, horseback trails and stunning vistas are often overlooked as a prime eco-tourism location. Now Coal River Mountain is slated for a mountaintop removal coal mine. If the coal company’s plans go through, nearly 10 square miles of the mountain will be destroyed, and 18 valley fills will devastate the Coal River watershed. But residents in the Coal River Valley …
Renewable sources are such a great investment- Coal companies only continue to lie about the advantages of endangering mountains and communities.
blah blah blah….How many years can they screw the ppl?
coal is what keeps the lights on & thats my familys income.
A shopping center doesnt take the whole top off a mountain roads dont ether they dont pollute as much either and they dont put all these chemicals in the soil…wow i cant wait to see when 100% electric cars hit, now they have found a way to make electric cars just ass good or better if you’d like to never have a fuel prise than other cars…i can’t wait.
people have to live somewhere and the cities are going renewable wind energy too like New York city, L.A. and San Fransiscoand many more we can’t just keep polluting and blowing the tops from the beautiful maintans, coal will still be used but wind energy will be. To wind is everywhere the sun is too…wind energy is the best thing that has ever hit this great state of West Virginia it will make jobs and conserve nature, and make West Vieginia just a little bit cleaner.5 stars for wind evergy…
coal feeds many families, im happy for you. if the coal were mined through deep mining instead of MTR coal would feed even more families. it takes alot less manpower to strip mine in comparison to a deep mine. the big coal companies make more money with a strip mine and thats why they push MTR. wake up people.
Why has no one considered the archealogical devastation taking place? I grew up in the “coal fields” of Ky. I’ve seen huge fossils both animal and vegetable come from those hills. Why have there been no digg sites other than for coal? Are these not some of the oldest mountains in the world?
Allow coal miners to grow HEMP on the mountains so they still will have a job that WONT run out or dry up,and NO waste will enter the soil or water,they will make great $ and provide a service to all.Good for the tree huggers and coal miners!!U can also make Hemp Oil to use instead of coal and oil.
Get a job at a windmill farm. It’s a good idea and better alternative to destroying the earth. What kind of world do you want to leave to your kids and grand kids? Do you not love nature and the mountains where you live? And if you don’t, what do you love and care about? Don’t say it’s your family, because Mountain top removal will affect them, by destroying their earth, and affecting their lives negatively.
coal poisons my family and many more
If you want to see how bad it’s going to be when they leave take a trip to Indian Country, and see what they have destroyed and walked away from.We need to come together and fight the govt and the coal companies.
What the video does not even show is that once these mountains are striped of vegitation.. they NEVER grow back. Too many poisons in the soil. A forever wasteland. So it is not a temporary destruction. It is permanent destruction.
coal feeds my family and many more
No one uses a 20 story dragline to build a highway or a Wal-Mart so it ISN’T the same.
A lot of ore mines out west are in desolate areas so they probably don’t affect very many people. MTR is done where many people live—they are people who need clean water & peace from blasting. People who lhave been in their homes for generations & are being driven out by the coal companies. My question to you—why do you have so little respect for your home & neighbors? Is money everything to you?
If those things were being done in my home I would be protesting them. They are for other people to protest & I hope they are. So. Indiana has limestone quarries but the destruction it took to create them is nothing compared to what is happening in Appalachia. They were built years ago when the land was empty of people & there are no sludge ponds, no water pollution left behind. The mountains can’t heal themselves & be tall again-at least not for millions of years. We don’t have that much time!
Why can’t you understand that it is the MAGNITUDE of MTR that is being protested? Destruction of nature is a part of all construction. There is no way around that. Towns are built bit by bit—homes or businesses one at a time. It never happens all at once like MTR. Show me a Wal-Mart or a highway that creates a permanent sludge pond above a town or a school. There is no healing from MTR. The water never goes back to clear, sludge ponds endanger forever, the flood danger is always there.
Now, let’s talk about other occupations that blast mountains…What about gold mines…iron ore mines…rock quarries…limestone mines…I really wonder why everyone wants to pick on the coal mines…I really do. From those other mines, to road work…you use EXACTLY the same equipment…you are doing EXACTLY the same thing with them…blasting material, and moving it to a different location…Same/Same…Why pick on the coal mines?
How many miles does I-77 cover? What about I-64? I-79? Route 19? Do you know how many mountains were blasted, loaded out, and placed in the valleys just for those roads. I’m not going to continue to argue with you, if you continue to show your ignorance…Truly, if you drove the miles and miles through some of the cities, where all you see is buildings…how many trees would you count, how many per acre? You know the answer to that. Bet it’s nothing like nature put there.
It may be that trees will flourish IF any trees are planted at all and IF the wildlife has 20+ years to wait for the trees to get to be a decent size. There certainly ARE trees in big cities and in smaller cities too! Once again—building something new IS destructive but putting in a new road, a new school or a new Wal-Mart is nothing compared to blasting the tops off of entire mountains. There’s just no comparison.
Of course all construction requires some damage to the land but you can’t seriously put building a new road on the same scale as taking off the top of entire mountains. Be real. A new Wal-mart or a new school isn’t anything compared to the destruction of MTR. MTR has nothing to do with progress.
Seriously…Are coal miners the only ones that clear timber? Are coal miners the only ones who poke holes in the ground, and blast? Are coal miners the only ones who move material from that ground to other locations? What about road construction? What about land devolopers? What about all the ones that rearrange to flatten land for your shopping centers and places of business. I guess you are busy protesting the roads being built in WV too, right? You’d better be.Same thing. Don’t hate progress.
“Animals need the shelter of trees and there’s no trees anymore”… There are trees wherever you plant them. It has been proven that trees flourish when planted on reclaimed land. There are no trees in your big cities. Are you pushing for not building up any communities. No more Walmarts…No more shopping centers. No more anything…This whole land used to be covered with trees. Are you for bringing down everything that has been developed? It’s not just coal mining.
May be true for some but I was born and raised in southern WV. I do understand why miners want to protect their jobs, but they have to know what they are doing to the land & their neighbors is a tragedy. WV has always been a poor state even with the mining because the money made goes out of state with the robber barons or to the corrupted WV politicians. McDowell Co is the poorest county in the state and has the most mining. If mining is such a great thing then explain how that can be.
I watched some of your videos. So we should be happy with prisons, golf courses and airports? How many of the destroyed mountains have been developed at all? What would be the point of putting a building (which is likely to sink) on top of what is left of a mountain? Most are too isolated and no one would want to build there. Reclamation is a joke. Rock chips and scrub grass do not make a habitat for wildlife. Animals need the shelter of trees and there are no trees anymore.
Coal is so 19th century! like Dickens! and torture! Wind is renewable. Love Is Like The Wind – You Can’t See It, But You Can Feel It–Mandy Moore….