Kathy Mattea

[kaccedi]

What you fail to realize is that if there are no mountains, no trees, rocks, slate in these reclamation areas, then the water will not absorb and will eventually floods will kill the residents in the once luscious valleys. Also, a deep mine, more expensive to the companies, and a bother to them to follow safety rules etc, would employ MORE equipment operators, truck drivers, mechanics, miners etc. The companies are moving in raping our homes of their beauty, and of their lives.

[TennesseeNurselady]

coal companties are destroying the beautiful mountains of kentucky, Va, and West virginia and its a shame...my mother and fathers clean drinking water has been destroyed and their home have cracks in them... they remove all of the trees, but never put the trees back and when they do, its not the type of trees that they removed

[mtcarver1]

There is no easy answer,but something

needs to be done. deep mining doest cause quite a big a mess.

[CabellWV]

Looks like a good place for a major airport. with many jobs and major income for WV. Making lemonade out of lemons?

We need more artist "from here" visiting to bring attention our issues. Unfortunetly, it takes someone "from here" to get attention.on here.

[LBUCHANAN2675]

There are better, cleaner ways of mining coal that aren't practiced and should be. HOWEVER, you don't hear that argued. These guidelines aren't followed because of the corporate giants pinching pennies. Why not protest those corporate offices rather than taking it out on those men and women that are only trying to feed their families? It's getting ridiculous...

[LBUCHANAN2675]

Ya know, I'm from a small town in WV where coal mining is everything. I ALSO have been a victim of a mine break that cause ours and those homes of family members to be unlivable. With that being said...I'm sick of all the hype about closing mines.

[coalminerswife1000]

Where did U get the energy 2 make this video?Where do you get the paper 2 write and send out the flyers 4 protests? How do you turn your lights on each day & where did you get the toilet paper to wipe your butts with??I'll tell ya where MASSEY ENERGY!! Thats where.Go home leave us alone and take a shower while you are at it!!!

[zappamannn]

"Where did U get the energy 2 make this video?"

well, 5% of the energy came from a practice that destroys mountains, poisons water and endangers children.

"where did you get the toilet paper to wipe your butts with??I'll tell ya where MASSEY ENERGY!! "

I was not aware that Massey makes toilet paper. I guess that is better than raping Appalachia for profit.

[coalminerswife1000]

Toilet paper is made from new or "virgin" paper, using a combination of softwood & hardwood trees.Softwood trees such as Southern pines & Douglas firs have long fibers that wrap around each other;this gives paper strength.Hardwood trees like gum, maple and oak have shorter fibers that make a softer paper.Toilet paper is generally a combination of approximately 70% hardwood & 30% softwood.

Let me ask you-Have you ever been raped?I have & its startin to make me real upset comparing MTR to Rape

[coalkeepswvalive35]

all of this ~ sorry guess i deleted part of it

[coalkeepswvalive35]

All hilarious they are so concerned about the mountaintop removal and trees and stuff but what about all the paper that is getting wasted everytime one of these idiots pull one of there crazy stunts and gets arrested all the paper that is being wasted if they were concerned they would just let it be and leave our families alone. We dont chase them around with bars of soap so they shouldnt chain themselves to equipment.GET A LIFE TREEHUGGERS u help destroy it alteas ours give jobs..

[tiffanymariewv]

Im assuming since my last comment was deleted that the owner of this ONLY wants ppl to see comments Protesting coal... Dont be onesided!!! Stupid tree Huggers... get a job!

[bmwbobduper]

Truth is - corporations are running and ruining our planet... our home...our host... for the almighty dollar. We need to re-evaluate the way business is conducted, and come up with a new way to live the democratic dream. As it is, we are killing our childrens future. We need a new approach to the way goods and services are valued!

[jerryg65]

Go to Google Maps and look at the damage that still shows from the strip mining in Tucker County in the 1930's .

[rocker53zero]

In Northern Ireland, we have been spared this horrific type of mining and the pollution that goes with it, but recently, mining companies have been looking at a 100 square mile area of County Antrim where I live and they are applying for a lisence to open an Open Cast mine to mine up to 180 million tons of lignite. The plans have been put forward by an Australian mining company with German financial backing. WE WONT LET IT HAPPEN

[hopeleannad]

We have to loook at it this way.  Kathy is not responsible for this. She is there to help.

[josh747]

I don't blame the business community for holding down their cost, but to allow this kind of wholesale destruction of the environment is shortsighted. Tourist businesses will be negatively impacted, because no one would want to come and see what this form of mining leaves behind. Also, as populations increase, future generations will have fewer places to go to experience nature. So this form of stripmining is practiced to maximumize coal co. profits in the short run, the environment be damned.

[maryyjoseph]

good video

[edgeofwv]

Kathy Mattea, you don't care about West Virginians and jobs, you made your money from entertaining these people. You Shank!

[celticchrys]

Now, I've seen Kathy come back and give many free concerts, and I've seen her give local concerts where she donated all proceeds to local charities. She made her money from a wider base than WV, and has put at least some of that back into her home area.

[wvlavender]

Thank you Kathy Mattea, Kathy Mattea tearfully says "It's like watching someone being raped" after an airtour of some mountain top removal. She hears WV morn.

[celticchrys]

My heart breaks a little whenever I look at some of the mountains I grew up around, to see they are now much shorter. At the same time, many people I know are employed by this industry, which provides some of the only employment available in some places. A tough issue to any WV native.

[wvlavender]

mountaintop removal only employs 15 to 40 people per mine, most of are not WVians. It is the underground mines that employ 150 to 600 per mine. The reclaimation is pittifull, especially compaired to the profits taken out of WV.

[celticchrys]

It is definitely true that strip mines and mountain top removal mines employ fewer West Virginians than deep mines. However, when the deep mine is closed, and the strips are all that is left, around a dozen of those 40 people per mine would be locals with no other job choice in many places. This affects not just miners, but equipment operators, truck drivers, mechanics, etc.