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Related: About this forumHow mountaintop mining affects life and landscape in West Virginia (PBS) Important reporting.
elleng
(130,768 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)They chopped off the top of the mountain! Who the hell thinks up this stuff in the first place?
I guarantee you I would never create a business to do this. Insane!
elleng
(130,768 posts)was gritting my teeth. My daughter attended college in WV, so I have an even more emotional reaction than others (maybe.)
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)What kind of people could do this to our environment and justify it with rationalization and lies?
golfguru
(4,987 posts)Sounds impossible, it is an oxymoron.
furtheradu
(1,865 posts)Sickening.
& the last graphic, I am paraphrasing, but :
2016, 160,000 coal jobs, vs 300,000+ solar jobs..
Wth?! It ain't rocket surgery! Put people to work in clean energy, renewable energy, for the goood of Mother Earth & ALL our Children. & YEAH, it IS PROFITABLE.
PLEEEEEZ!
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)It needs to be illegal. NO ONE should be allowed to do this!
We need a Standing Rock type occupation protest and stop this madness.
mtngirl47
(987 posts)in areas that previously never flooded.
My family land in West Virginia was condemned by FEMA after 3 devastating floods. Our family had lived on the land for 80 years with no floods--then after nearby mountain top mining a heavy rain caused the CREEK to over flow and flood the fields, barn and house. There was 6 feet of water in the house.
We all came together and rebuilt the homestead and my Uncle bought flood insurance--even though they called it a "hundred year flood." Two years later it happened again. Then we had a five year respite, but it happened again. At that point the land was condemned and the family was bought out--for pennies on the dollar. Now, the land can never be used for housing or a farm or a business.
And yet---my West Virginia family still supports mining. The same Uncle worked in the mines. Christmas of 2005 he had a gall bladder attack and subsequent surgery. He was home recovering on January 2, 2006 when the Sago Mine exploded--with his crew inside. Thirteen miners were trapped for two days and only one came out alive. And yet---my large West Virginia family still supports mining.
Why? Tradition, Identity of the region, Stubborn, Ignorant, No other Choice--except to leave. I've told my cousins that the last one to leave West Virginia should turn the lights out.