UPDATED: Activist ‘Green’ Lawyers Billing U.S. Millions in Fraudulent Attorney Fees
What is mountain top removal coal mining?? It’s Don Blankenship and clan ruining the people of the Appalachia Mountains.
Do you know they can set the entire city of Manhattan at the Coal River site in West Virginia? That is A LOT to reclaim with so called businesses. It’s not the only one. We are talking about miles and miles of devastation. Not just the size of a Walmart. They plant grass and landscape these areas with a few tree species. There is no way they can put back miles and miles of mountain. They can’t put the species of wild plants that it took billions of years to develop.
It’s not mining coal that people have a problem with. It’s the coals companies being irresponsible and it’s their way of doing it. MTR is a unnecessary practice. Back in the 70’s there was over 120,000 men in this state employed by underground mining. Now we have 20,000. Only 5,200 are employed doing MTR. It’s cheaper for them to employ machines than it is for a man to do it.
They are filling our valleys and streams with waste. It’s raining on this waste and poisoning the ground.They have slurry impondments with billions of gallons of waste. Held together with dirt and nothing to line them with.(blasting dynamite next to them) The toxins are seeping into our ground water. This stuff has seeped into people’s water systems and it has killed some of them.
They have been cited with violation after violation, they pay the fines and it’s business as usual. They are raping of us our heritage by blowing up these mountains. They are poisoning us and other species dependent on fresh clean water. All that just because it’s cheaper for them. I don’t think it’s only the “greeniacs” profiting in a crooked way.
You tell me what is the value put on life here in WV? 1 life to 1000 jobs? 1 to 12 tons of coal? What?????
Thank God SOMEBODY is suing them!!! Could somebody also call our government officials and tell them we live in a war zone?? We need help!!!!!?!?
