Walker Cat says "Yes, Coal"

[cmecenter69]

i like my women like i like our mountains TOPLESS..... COAL KEEPS OUR LIGHTS ON

[jda1961]

i'm not against coal, but i am against mountaintop removal, when will the great state of west virginia get its head out of its ass.

[Arabhacks]

Coal can be recovered by strip mining or underground mining.

Both have good and bad points, but reclamation is the key in every case.

[PATSICK]

45,000 people or so kill themselves every year in the United States operating the safest motor vehicles ever designed, on the best highway system ever seen; because a.) they're drunk, b.) theyre talking on their cell phone, c.) they just aren't smart enough to contribute to the gene pool in the modern world. And you want to talk about Coal? You have go to be kidding.

[treehuggerhater120]

Been a stripminer for 5 years now. I dont go to work everyday saying man i cant wait to haul away mountains tonight . Its a job i go to work i do my job then go home. We gotta have coal always have always will or it would have been forgot about along time ago. Proud rock truck driver in eastern ky!! and plan on doing it til i retire. Any other miners out there with me??

[chfar072281]

One's emotion's will always start a fire, only to realize reality has extinguished them. This video is a new low for you mountainjustice.....

[kenworthK100234]

just imagine the tip of a eraser on a pencil toped with coal is enough to cut ur lungs when u dig up coal u dig up bad stuff like diseases and radioactive materials and toxic material i did not realizes this stuff intil a safety meating i hauled coal for a year and half never took a thought of the danger intill i was told about the stuff but we have to keep digging to keep power suppled to the U.S.but now we aleast take more saftey pracautions to the stuff

[localcrew]

(Sam Elliot voice): "Coal. It's what's for dinner".

[RXforJazz]

As I write this comment, there is a new natural gas line being put into a coal burning power plant in Denver, I don't know how long it takes to switch the plant over to Natural gas, but it is happening as we speak. So before you speak!! get educated on what is happening to coal & learn what is happening with natural gas.

[sizzlah01]

Is this clean coal or dirty coal? Never trust a human being. Especially one who rides the bandwagon. Nothing like ruining a perfectly good ecosystem. Hah... Thats what humans are well known for! Long live the earth! Simple minded rednecks getting fucked up the ass and they seem to like it. Coal

[clmnr96]

im a coal miner my self and were the hell would we be with out it so fuk yall

[dsp11000]

i love coal

[BlueMoonHillbilly]

All they're doing is trying to make a living and provide for their families. Its alot better than them laying at the house on well fare. And you all talk about coal being bad but how do you think you put this video on here? Electricity from coal! So think of the good instead of all the bad every once in a while. Friends of coal!

[Tylerscummins]

Coal. When you get down to the basics its stored solar energy. Plus its compleatly natral so i dont see the big problem here. Most all the pictures on this video were cause by human error

[mountainjustice]

@Tylerscummins - Coal is a natural substance but because carbon (coal) tends to filter out other substances sems of coal will also contain dangerous heavy metals including arsenic, lead, mercury and selenium that are toxic. We burn and use vast quantities of coal, so even though the amount of actual mercury on coal is small, a great amount is being released into the air and water becuase we burn over 100 million tons of coal annually.

[PATSICK]

@mountainjustice And there is a.) a great amount of air, and a great amount of water; or b.) only a small amount of air and water? Numbers are very interesting; especially if you do your homework and you understand what they mean. In this case; absolutely nothing.

[moriver1]

Congrads, in the 5 some minutes you have shown me you know how to pick out some videos off the net and make a one sided video that is no doubt self serving and a waste of your time. Try making something that shows all facts and makes people want change, not makes people want to watch something else...

[maverick79606]

coal doesnt hurt people,people hut people,cuz they fucking dont pay-attention lol



[ckilo11]

Even posting a video like this makes you a hypocrite.

So tell me:

Are you willing to throw away every connivence?

[ckilo11]

On second thought You wouldn't even know what you have, let alone the possibility of curing it. Because hospitals, and medicine is thrown out too. the only medicine you would have are the plants around you.

[ckilo11]

Here's an idea. Let's just throw out everything that is coal related for a moment just to see where you would be.

Naked standing in a field. Even the purified water you drink is thrown out too. You need electricity for everything in a water purification plant (besides the people working there). So say hello to diptheria.

Just a reminder you use things that are coal related every day that people take too lightly.

How exactly does coal cause a natural disaster?

[mountainjustice]

@ckilo11 - In the case of the TVA disaster, TVA knew prior to Dec 22, 2008 that they had a problem with moisture seeping into the dam surrounding their coal ash mountain in Kingston TN. As a dam becomes saturated internally, it weakens. They didn't fix it, or didn't know how to fix it, or decided it would be too expensive to fix it. As a result, over 1 billion gallons of toxic coal ash spilled into tributaries of the Tennessee River - Chattanooga's drinking water supply.

[ckilo11]

@mountainjustice it was a crushed over flow pipe that they didn't know about in the upper dam, not to mention all the rain they got for the past 3 days in the mountains causing the snow to melt.

other than that the engineer's messed up when they put one tailings dam on top of the other.

the top dam filled past capacity then overflowed into the lower dam causing a breach in bolth.

i know all about it.

[mountainjustice]

@ckilo11 You know all about ... what? It sounds like you referring to the Buffalo Creek flood in West Virginia in February 1972. That is a different disaster from the TVA coal ash spill in Dec 2008. There is also the Martin County coal slurry spill in Kentucky in October 2000. I have videos on the Martin County spill and the TVA disaster on my channel, but nothing about the Buffalo Creek Flood. I recommend the book "Everything In Its Path" by Kai Erickson about the Buffalo Creek disaster

[ckilo11]

@mountainjustice you're right. My bad, I didn't think that you were talking about a power plant.

Bolth buffalo creek, and the incident in martin county were caused by bad engineering. In the case of martin county: the thing was built over an abandoned mine, water being as heavy as it is collapsed the roof of the mine.

to be continued...

[ckilo11]

@mountainjustice the same thing is happening now in a town named pitcher Oklahoma. For years they mined out lead, and zinc then they abandoned the mine. Years have passed since the mine was last activated, and the celling of the shafts are caving in creating massive sink holes on the surface. Over time the entire town will be eradicated from existence.

any way you can add this one to your channel: Modern Marvels: The Buffalo Creek Disaster

[ckilo11]

Respond to this video... have you herd that you are brushing your teeth with industrial waist? No, it's not all the water, its tooth paste. Fluoride is a by product from when they inject chlorine to separate aluminum before it goes to the foundry for smelting.

[mountainjustice]

@ckilo11 - In the case of the TVA disaster, TVA knew prior to Dec 22, 2008 that they had a problem with moisture seeping into the dam surrounding their coal ash mountain in Kingston TN. As a dam becomes saturated internally, it weakens. They didn't fix it, or didn't know how to fix it, or decided it would be too expensive to fix it. As a result, over 1 billion gallons of toxic coal ash spilled into tributaries of the Tennessee River - Chattanooga's drinking water supply.

[PATSICK]

@mountainjustice For your information the drinking water supply of Chattanooga is monitored continuously; and there is nothing wrong with it. I just thought you;d like to know. This is called the first world because public water supplies are monitored and certified for public consumption; you want to drink the water in Mexico City; well that;s a little different, that's basically buying a lottery ticket.

[PATSICK]

@mountainjustice The TVA is a government project; it's incompetent by definition. what to do? a.) turn out the lights. or b.) get the government out of business and let private companies take care of business? Hmm, I wonder?

[mountainjustice]

@PATSICK TVA is actually a corporation owned by the US Government. "Neither fish nor fowl" is how it has been described. It is a both a dot com and a dot gov.

TVA is shutting down some of its older coal-fired power plants and is creating electricity from the wind on Buffalo Mountain and also promoting net zero, high efficiency homes powered by solar panels.

As far as private companies, take a look at my video on the Martin County coal slurry spill

[jayay35]

Real complaints will start pouring in when they go to turn on their lights and find they no longer have electricity. And to add a little bit of truth to my statement, look at a lot of the photos they have posted, seems I see a lot of telephone poles with ELECTRICAL lines on them..........hmmmm, makes you wonder doesn't it.

[icex2010]

fucking tree hugger, go hump a fucking tree and get splinters in your pussy you bitch

[SHOXGlitching]

Dude who made his video should flip the main breaker in his breaker box and go a week without electricity see how much you bash on coal then...

[PhaedraDragon]

There are countless sites of coal strip mine operations around the US, and not once have I ever seen any of those sites being "reclaimed". Most sites, once the coal has been removed, become dumping grounds for the over burden from other mines, which is probably a way to claim the old strip mine is being "reclaimed". As for bashing of the Cat dealer, you could also bash the railroads for hauling the coal, as the diesels used put out more pollution.

[dsp11000]

cat diesel power :}

[Gavin84w]

Yes coal provides fuel for powerstations to make electricity, that would be the stuff you charged the battery on your camcorder to make this video you dumb ass.

But ofcourse the jobs it generates along with the families it funds all have to be dismissed. The fact is life is dangerous, not just mining simple as that. Heck i can recall a time when drag racing was dangerous and sex was safe, hmmm how times change.

[chfar072281]

This is a new low.... I am suprised you put forth this much effort and thought making this video without stating some factual evidence. Bashing a caterpiller dealer, come on.... This make's you seem like a disguntled employee trying to provoke some sort of revenge or something. This is more than likely hurting your cause not helping it.

[mountainjustice]

@chfar072281 - Im guessing that you arent from West Virginia. Walker CAT is a well-known cheerleader for blowing up West Virginia's beautiful mountains for coal and then dumping the waste into pure mountain streams.  Walker CAT buys billboards all over WV proclaiming that coal is "Carbon Neutral." Walker CAT has hired a pro bass fisherman named Jeremy Starks to proclaim that the water downstream of surface mines is the best water he's ever fished in. And so on.

[salmojack]

@chfar072281 You would drink this water?

[Xx308LongshotzxX]

at 3:34 ... thats sum bull shit. how the hell are they gonna drink that shit??????

[c931D9]

Mining is dirty and dangerous, no matter what mineral is being mined. Coal mining is safer now than it has ever been what with new laws and ever improving technology. You need to balance your presentation with award winning reclaimed mine sites. Also, report on coal companies intense focus on mine safety. Mountain top removal is the safest and most efficient way to mine coal. Yeah, coal does in fact keep the lights on.

[mountainjustice]

@c931D9 Can you tell me where I can see some award-winning reclaimed sites, or how to get more information (i.e. who gives out the awards?) Im especially interested in Kentucky or West Virginia, and these would need to be sites that are open to the public - I want tlo actually visit these sites and take pictures. I keep hearing that they are doing a good job, I just cant actually find sites that have been properly reforested with hardwood trees. Thanks for your comments.

[nchayfarmer]

its all dirt it was dirt at one time and now it comes out of the ground its still dirt what harm can come out of it we moved some 450 deere hoes from a coal ash landfill down in alabama and they have more restrictions than your average sewage treatment plant if you live in the city or get city water guess what your drinking other peoples waste yeah i bet you didnt know that did you you people make me sick this world lives on coal and mining the computer your own uses power from coal or the like

[mountainjustice]

@nchayfarmer There are harmful substances - heavy metals such as arsenic, cadmium etc. that are found in and near coal seams. They are safe when buried underground, but when the coal is mined and then burned they are (hopefully) captured by the power plant scrubbers and they remain concentrated in the coal slurry or coal ash. There was a huge spill of coal waste into the river at TVA Kingston. You dont want arsenic in your drinking water.

[nchayfarmer]

@mountainjustice thats not the point yes stuff happens somtimes but this stuff is nowhere as bad as you folks make it out to be no im not saying its right to dump it in rivers but where else do you think your going to get power from

[6045645]

these are quarries not strip mines dumbass'

[1973RoadRunner440]

So I guess that my family's construction company better just shut down then because the work we do is just as dangerous. ALL heavy equipment is dangerous believe it or not. Sorry to break the news to you. Half of those pictures aren't even from the mine I bet. I don't know one coal mine that size that has a D4H LGP (aka fuckin tiny for a coal mine). Mines have stricter safety standards than we do in construction. I guess farmers better stop farming due to land erosion too then.

[mountainjustice]

@1973RoadRunner440 - Most all of the photos were taken from the Mine Safety and Health Administrations website for mine fatalities. Of course all heavy equipment is dangerous, whether its construction or mining.

I dont understand your point about erosion. Every farmer knows that soil loss is a huge issue, our topsoil is washing away to the Gulf of Mexico. What does that have to do with coal mining?

[1MudDobber2]

we have dam's and wind power..why in the fuck would yo keep using coal and nuclear power. I for one dont see the wind not blown or rivers not flowing anytime soon..or the sun not shining.

[Muddogg68]

So what was the TVA disaster?

[mountainjustice]

@Muddogg68 - A mountain of coal ash collapsed on Dec 22, 2008. Coal ash is the stuff left over after coal is burned - TVA has been piling it up since 1955 in Kingston TN, between Knoxville and Nashville. It was 65 feet high and about 100 acres in size, surrounded by an earthen dam. The earthen wall collapsed and the coal ash went into tributaries of the Tennessee River. If you seacrh "TVA Coal Ash" you can see some good video on you tube

[Muddogg68]

@mountainjustice ok thanks I'll do that.

Whats with the pic at 3;34?

[ScreamMode1337]

I wonder if the fish can adapt and make COAL BURNING FISH :O! That or fish that breath coalwater!

[gscowart1]

This is why I like nuclear power......

[ryantyler16]

who ever made this video i say FUCK YOU lay off coal it keeps the LIGHTS ON

[mountainjustice]

@ryantyler16 Thanks for watching my video. Mountain Justice is not opposed to deep-mining coal. We are opposed to mountaintop removal and coal slurry impoundments.

[ryantyler16]

@mountainjustice im all for surface mining

[Bobus2003]

@mountainjustice Mining Coal seems to be working in Wyoming.. No major Disasters yet

[mountainjustice]

@Bobus2003 Yes, Wyoming is the number one coal producing state, WV is #2 and Kentucky is #3. Appalachian coal production is supposed to drop by 40 percent in the next 5 years, according to the US Energy Information Authority. Even WV congressman Nick Rahall says the major coal producing seams in Appalachia will be gone in 20 years. Appalachia needs to begin planning now for a future without coal.

[jhatt25]

@mountainjustice there is more energy from coal in the US than all the oil in the middle east!!!! and its easy for little bitches like yourself to point out the bad coal does and yeah there is some!!! but what little douches like you forget is if it werent for coal your ass would probably be speaking german right now and not be allowed to have an opinion!!! coal is the one thing that continues to provide for this country

[treehuggerhater120]

@ryantyler16 Thank you for the comment couldnt said it better myself

[ibtl1]

fucking moonbat liberals, more people are killed every day by niggers than by coal.

ban niggers.....its for the children

[hawker800FO]

@ibtl1 ROFL

[ScreamMode1337]

@ibtl1 That is so racist but so true!

[davetileguy]

I LOVE STRIP MINNING!! YUMMM

[andymotl]

Last time I checked water causes flooding, not coal. What are they gonna do with them houses I wonder? Who ever wasted their fucking time making this movie should make themselves useful for once and get busy tearing the copper out of them! Oh, I suppose they'd have to make another stupid movie about how working is wrong and work not water causes flooding... Oh my god I'm gonna cry... bunch of candy ass mother fuckers!

[mountainjustice]

@andymotl - According to the OSM, in a healthy mature forest the trees will soak up 75 percent of the rainfall. Leaves and mosses on the forest floor act like a sponge to soak up more water, and water also soaks into the ground, replenishing our groundwater and feeding the mountain springs.

But on the mine sites, bulldozers compact the land until its as hard as concrete. The water runs off the mine like a parking lot. The communities below the mine in the hollers get flash flooded.

[andymotl]

@mountainjustice So what's your point? I live in Southern Minnesota & we've had 3 floods in the last 5-6 years where Fema came in & asked us very little to no questions & just cut us a fat check! You ever try kicking through the little bit of top soil that there is down there in Kentucky? I have & you know what's down below the little bit of piss poor soil they have? Shell rock! All the water runs off down there! Now let me ask you this, do you have more money than that company mining the coal?

[andymotl]

@mountainjustice Or should I say the investors who back that company and own the chuck of otherwise worthless ground that they're mining on? If you do then buy the shit hole! If not then you might as well shut the hell up because cash rules everything in this world! Whether it's wrong or right you ain't gonna change shit without it! Sorry to burst your bubble man but that's life. I enjoy hunting and farming and yeah it don't look to healthy to live around there.

[andymotl]

@mountainjustice So, what I would do is-MOVE! Cause all your really doing is waisting moments of your life that you'll never get back over something you'll never be able to do nothing about! Sorry to bring it to ya like this but it's the truth and all of us who are in reality in this country know it.

[mountainjustice]

@andymotl - Its just not that simple. For many Appalachians, the land has been in their family for many many generations. Some folks have their loved ones and ancestors buried on the hillside above their home. These families were there a long time before the coal companies and Caterpillar moved in - they love the mountains and dont want to see them destroyed by coal companies from out of state. I think fighting back against these companies is corageous and patriotic.

[pikeasaurus15]

That water isn't because of coal. but what could it be!?!

..........

Oh shoot looks like a bunch of hippies tried to unsuccessfully liberate the water plant again.

[hersheyzsquirtz]

im about to load my 953 bucket up with all the used oil around the shop and dump it in the bay and its all your faultttttt

[AGDemo]

Coal Is Good!

[wesalwayswins]

BOOOOO!!!!!

[puna112]

the power your using to be on youtube is morethen likely made from burning coal .

[rocintrucker83021227]

Yes. no coal no light, no coal no steel, no coal no jobs, no coal no money to put food on the table. This video is just showing what happens when proper safety wildlife protection is not done. These companys were neglegent on there safety pratices. That dose not make coal evil. Just rember the computer your working on to read this was touched in some form by coal, the power, the metal the case is made from ect. Not unless you have a organic computer thats made from corn plastic and sun powered

[mountainjustice]

@rocintrucker83021227 Coal can be mined in a responsible way using underground mining. Mountain Justice is opposed to mountaintop removal mining, but we do not oppose underground mining. Undreground mining also employs a lot more miners than strip mining, so if we stop mt top removal, it will create alot more jobs for the people in the mountains.

[rocintrucker83021227]

@mountainjustice Thanks for making your message more clear. I'll agree with you to a point on that. I don't like strip mining myself. But you have to admit the reclamation demands by the epa are strick and have bien succsessful But there are other formes of strip mining for minerals and stone that to the best of what I know have no such reclamation laws in place I just think coal is a popular target because of the fact we burn it Mills and power plants have advanced scrubers that are epa appoved

[mountainjustice]

@rocintrucker83021227 - Well, no I dont agree that the coal mine reclamation has been successful, and the EPA is not in charge of that (state agencies and the OSM are). There are well-intentioned laws governing reclamation (SMCRA) but the reclamation process is compacting with bulldozers the soil so trees cant grow. The reclaimed land is as hard as concrete ... The Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative is a better approach.

[rocintrucker83021227]

@mountainjustice Thanks for the info I don't know all the details other than what I have watched on tv. And I'll also agree that they are or are not telling the truth on tv. I stand in the middle when it comes to things like this. I don't 100% agree with groups like yours but I hate habitat destruction. I work in water well drilling and I hate knowing we are drilling in the woods or a farm field for a new house. But on the other hand I need to work. To me there is no (right) answer. Peace

[ihdieselman]

Your body is also made of carbon. You, and every other breathing creature on earth exhales carbon why don't you put your efforts toward something constructive? If you have to deamonize something why don't you deamonize Hugo Chavez, Achmadenijad, or Kim Jhong II for being tyranical dictators? Perhaps you are akin to thier kind of thinking?

[Bennyboy46a]

Wow i can blame my keyboard for spelling mistakes too huh?

[BlazedRafter]

"____________" puts food on my table! You can put whatever you like in the blank; Drug dealing, poisoning people, prostitution, etc..

Just because a profession puts food on your table doesn't make it ethical.

[stingraystud]

@BlazedRafter well how about we just turn your power off and let you freeze in the dark, since coal does power damn near all of this country, besides you probably dont even live close to a coal mine and have no idea what about anything

[coalminer69er]

Coal puts food on my table! People get shot round here for a lot less so come and pay me a visit ill have my coal shovel to throw the dirt back on you when i fill your hole back in

[mountainjustice]

When the coal industry faces opposition from the public, they often rely on violence to threaten and intimidate the people who speak out against mining. There is a long history of the coal industry using violence, from the bombing of striking miners at Blair Mountain and the shooting of the town Mayor Cabell Testerman in Matewan, WV, to the recent assault on Judy Bonds of West Virginia.

[coalminer69er]

@mountainjustice well when someone comes and takes food from your table we will fight and when it comes to the miners standing for safer conditions we will fight and when it comes to a scab i say lets fight now there are some strip mines that i disagree with when it can be deep mined safely

[mandtconstruct]

@mountainjustice While we may not agree on things. STOP using photos from other disasters to make a point about coal!

[mountainjustice]

@mandtconstruct - the heavy equipment photos are from the Mine Safety and Health Administration reports on mine accidents. The coal truck photos are from newspaper reports after fatal accidents. The TVA photos are from the coal ash disaster in Harriman TN, and the Martin County sludge spill in KY, Oct 2000. So Im not sure what you are referring to. If you have a specific question, tell me which photo (i.e. what time on the film)

[WVhoeman]

hahahaha this is a joke, i worked at a landfill for 3 years, we would cut holes in the liner for fun, the shit would run off in to the water system, i wouldnt live within 20 miles of that place. this is the world we live in and some pussys have to fuck it up, we call them tree huggers where im from they harrse us they get harrsed back.

[yukonman2]

Coal produces energy,the most important detail you failed to state.Are you suggesting to cease every activity that causes an accident? Is there any work environment that accidents and fatalities do not occur?

[mccormickchainsaw]

i love how you damn hippys on show the bad stuff but why don't you show all the jobs mining creates I love walker and have many freinds that work there

[jwheel8321]

Deal with it... Coal is an important way of life and with any human vanity comes a sacrifice... Pollution is all around us everyday and would be whether we mined coal or not... So before you wanna bitch anymore, turn off your computer, turn out your lights, park your car, and strap yourself to a tree naked... Don't get me wrong preserving our natural resources is a great thing, but this isn't the 1800's... We have land sat aside for preservation, we need to use our resources though.

[mountainjustice]

@jwheel8321 - Mountain Justice is not against underground mining, just mountaintop removal. Coal is obviously important to WV and KY, we just need to mine it responsibly. Most people have forgotten how bad things were before we had clean air and clean water laws passed during President Nixon's Administration.  No one wants to go back to the days when rivers caught on fire. Lets deep mine the coal and put thousands of people back to work in the mountains.

[fuckyamountains]

@mountainjustice What about the slurry ponds that you bitch about??? That is a part of deep mining???? Learn about your project before you start it! :)

[mountainjustice]

@fuckyamountains - Coal slurry can be processed using belt presses that remove the water. The waste can be stacked in a pile like wet sand. There is no need to build slurry ponds, its just cheaper for the coal companies.

I read what you wrote about JB.

[gholstein80]

Oh sorry some of these accidents didn't even occur in a cat so it must just be a mistake on your part. MISLEADING CITIZENS OF AMERICA IS WHAT YOUR ORGANIZATION SHOULD BE CALLED.

[mountainjustice]

@gholstein80 - Walker CAT put up a billboard that says "Yes Coal, Clean Carbon Neutral Coal"

Carbon neutral? Coal is made of carbon. The Spanish word for coal is "carbon"

Who is misleading?

[gholstein80]

No no that is not the east the shovel is in the pit loading rock trucks. That is Wyoming I've seen to many pictures. Take your lies else where. BTW Wyoming does stripe mining. Please put more accuracies on here. Some people in the coalfields are not as dumb as you think.

[gholstein80]

Some of these video's look to be out of state maybe Wyoming. Maybe even New Mexico. Probably not though since you know and you would never lie. Yea these everyone knows that if you work with heavy equipment there is a possibility of death or severe injury. Now lets speak in factually terms. California, Hawaii, Chicago, Houston, and etc.... I've been to big cities and there is no perfect water system. You can be beat in your own terms water pollution is everywhere.

[mountainjustice]

@gholstein80 - Those are mt top removal mines - they are in the east, they just look like they are out west because the coal companies are turning the eastern hardwood forests into a desert that looks like Afghanistan. Check out my video entitled "mountaintop removal in Kentucky" to see pix

[385cl]

and the fact is that accidents happen then heavy equipment and mining industries are dangerous and you cant blame the person that sold u the equipment if u or one of ur workers caused the accident.

[385cl]

I have to disagree with u cat is not responsible for this they merely supply equipment to their costumers. And it is not their fault is there is an accident in a mine that they have sold equipment to just because a piece of cat equipment was involved. The mine owners are responsible for what happens in their mines it is not the equipment dealer's fault.

[92Shockwave]

That's why you hire experience operators don't be cheap

[werewolfs4ever]

I've actually met MR. Walker personally. an english teacher at my school is his daughter. she is nice but her father disguests me. almost spat in the mans face. he dose not care about us, young people. he just cares about his life and how he can make his 3 or 4 years better. for all he cares he can drill all the mountians and pollute all he wants, as long as it dosnt effect him.

quiet frankly fuck you CAT, from Aaron Ayala

[tpaigeme]

This is a democracy. We do what is beneficial to the most people, theoretically, not what benefits the few at the expense of other citizens. We are entitled to at the very least that our wishes be heard without threats or intimidation. This an outlaw and rogue industry that threatens democracy and our way of life. On that basis alone, not to mention the huge environmental and health costs MTR must be reexamined by this adminstration in light of the huge costs associated with it.

[tpaigeme]

A poll was taken by a pro buisness Republican Rag---80% of West Virginians polled were against MTR. Much as we would like you to have a job, the sacrifices we have to make in order to do so are just too high. There are other types of mining. The sole beneficiaries of this type of destructive practice are the coal companies reaping huge profits and a relatively few miners as this type of mining has actually diminished the number of jobs available.

[tpaigeme]

Scary stuff...

[clinttalk2525]

what do you do for a living?

[clinttalk2525]

If you get power from a steam power plant, and you don't like the burning of coal, shut your power off, and quit bothering us that like to play on our computers! Oh yeah, sell your car and don't buy anything ever again. because your a hippie fucking idiot.

[mountainjustice]

Thanks for your comment Clint.

Im going to make lots more videos about Walker CAT so if you have any information about Steve Walker and how he treats his employees - or maybe inside information about Walker CATs compliance with OSHA and other federal statutes on workplace safety, fall protection, proper handling of special/hazardous waste etc. please let me know. Thanks.

[muztangrida8307]

Sooner or later we all DIE, harsh but true!

Id rather go out from black lung (coal is not directly a carcinogen) and be proud of supporting my family and teaching my children to work hard for what they have and EARN every bit of it along the way than to stand around smelling like ass holding signs that the gov't had to give you the money to buy

[SAVECOALBURNTREES]

* National demand for electricity is expected to increase by another 24 percent by 2020. * Emissions from power plants have been reduced by 1/3 over the past 30 years. * It has been estimated that 13 percent of the national power requirement is taken up by activities associated with computers and information technology.

WE DON'T NEED COAL WHAT WERE WE THINKIN?

[SAVECOALBURNTREES]

* More than half of the nation's electricity is generated from coal. * In West Virginia 99% of the generated electricity comes from coal. * There are currently 14 coal fired electric generating facilities located in West Virginia. * Coal provides the majority of electric power in 32 states. * In the United States, the demand for electricity has increased 136% since 1970. * National demand for electricity is expected to increase by another 24 percent by 2020

[SAVECOALBURNTREES]

* Twenty-four million dollars of coal severance taxes collected each year goes directly into the Infrastructure Bond Fund. * All 55 counties, even the non-coal producing counties receive Coal Severance Tax funds. * The coal industry payroll is nearly $2 billion per year. * Coal is responsible for more than $3.5 billion annually in the gross state product.

[SAVECOALBURNTREES]

* The West Virginia Coal Industry provides about 40,000 direct jobs in WV, including miners, mine contractors, coal preparation plant employees and mine supply companies * Taxes paid by the coal industry and by utility companies that make electricity using West Virginia coal account for two-thirds, or over 60% of business taxes paid in our state. * The coal industry pays approximately $70 million in property taxes annually.

[fuckyamountains]

Well, you have all the money and would be the one we bow down too, correct? I'm just assuming the role that you all have everyone believing! And ya know, that's right about the people uniting and taking a stand... That's what we are trying to do in the coal industry... Company and company standing together, union and non-union standing side by side. We aren't gonna take this shit anymore! And we don't live in a harmful environment, it's just fine! And our pay is well above what most people make!

[liztish6833]

ok you know everything you are so smart I can't stand people like you ignorant fools that as soon as they get cancer come crying back to us for help. Once your insurance company drops you and your coal company drops you hahahaa good luck with your fight you will lose and I can assure you of that stop responding stupid people don't get the final say

[fuckyamountains]

Again, the company offers insurance short term and long term disability for these types of occurances! Your right about stupid people not getting the last word! And if I ever do develop cancer or anything terminal, I would NOT take care from a stupid bitch like yourself!

[liztish6833]

ok whatever you say scholar!!! you are right I am wrong I have no clue what I am talking about.....you must be the smartest nicest guy in the world. I actually think there should be more people just like you!!! Can't wait til you start reproducing!!!!

[fuckyamountains]

Yeah, ok! Just wondering... Do use anything that coal has an impact on in your day to day life, or are you one of the good upstanding "greenies?"

[liztish6833]

YOu said the stupid hillbilly part not me but if you talk the talk.......you have no idea what people are capable of when they unite and take a stand. No coal worker is ever going to be against a less harmful environment to work in with better pay and better benefits!!!

[liztish6833]

wow you are classy I bet you make all the girls run your way lmao....and just b/c you can't fathom having any other power than coal don't hate on me b/c I can afford to be independent from this silly country and it's stupid irresponsible ways!!! I am done with you you are a waste of my time enjoy your coal and your worthless coal job. We shall see who has the last laugh here

[fuckyamountains]

Well, since this country is so silly and irresponsible, then why don't you leave it? No one is making you stay here. America, Love it or leave it, the choice is yours! I'm glad that your done with me, and yes we will see who gets the last laugh because people won't tolerate sitting in the dark being hot or cold, depending on the season! I hope you have a great life and stop by and see us on your way to WV! Oh wait, we're jsut stupid ass hillbillies that don't have power or running water. HAHA

[328DLCR]

Very good point! If you let these people go without these coal mine, and they have no electrical or anything to live, they will be crying for it back

[fuckyamountains]

Yeah, probably... But these people really know how to lie their way out of just about anything! Your 14, and know that coal is important, their grown adults and can't see the importance! Coal is used in the manufacturing of ANYTHING that involves steel, so when they say they don't support coal they are lying! But, they'll swear to be damned that they don't!

[SUPERHIPPIESLAYER]

So coal made a tsunami damn their is a dumbass scraping the bottom of the barrel for a anti coal comment...OK if coal causes so much pollution and its causing so many problems YOU Liztish stop using it if there is no demand for it we will not mine it. If your gonna bitch about it here are a list of chemicals that are used to wash coal FLOC which is used in sewer treatment facilities.SALT WATER whooo bad shit huh Diesel which is not that bad and alcohol that evaporates so BLOW IT OUT YOUR CUNT.

[liztish6833]

Hahhaa 1st of all I have all solar power so I don't use any of your dirty coal, second you people are pathetic how you only see one side, when half of you are unemployed have no benefits and then talk to me about no chemicals in MTR. What about chromium? What about lead? What about copper? These are toxins contained by the mtn itself. But w/e you guys must know best, I mean with all the education your state provided and how your stupid Gov said OPEN FOR BUSINESS!!!! you are a joke

[liztish6833]

Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea." ~George Carlin

[fuckyamountains]

Wow!!! Imagine that, a 24 year old smarter than a 29 year old! The tsunami was caused naturally, by an EARTHQUAKE underwater, close to the surface. As far as clean coal... It is getting cleaner everyday! And as far as your comment about "little boys," I think you should take some time into researching the net yourself... When you figure out that tsunami's are created by earthquakes or massive mud slides, come back and we will talk. Practice whatcha preach, and think before ya type!

[liztish6833]

seriously how is coal getting cleaner everyday ??? what do you know about blowing up mountains and what is leaked out of them? And if you think of a pot of water the molecules move faster when heated the same thing is happening to our oceans, due to climate increase causing hurricanes to be stronger earthquakes to be stronger, you have never even seen the ocean! You are typical though trying to engage with anyone not even knowing the facts!

[fuckyamountains]

They are coming up with carbon capturing filters and making them better! They are coming out with new chemicals and flocculants to better serve the environment! And um, nothing is leaked out of the mountains! They are ROCK. And the ocean is nowhere near a boiling point, so the molecular structure has nothing to do with it! And yes, I have seen the ocean! And the thing about making the earthquakes stronger??? What bullshit! You tell me to get my facts straight, but maybe you should practice that!

[liztish6833]

they are not coming up with carbon capturing filters they have them already just dirty coal business's are too cheap to do it the right way!!!! They had their chance and they fucked it up! you people have had enough time and money to destroy the air. And speaking of more chemicals on top of more toxic releases from the mtns and hold shit When you blast a mtn it releases all the toxins when you expose the ribbons of coal, wow! Chemicals and Flocculants? Wtf is that that's not even A WORD!

[fuckyamountains]

They are making the ones that they have already in place better!!! Heat has nothing to do with how fast or slow a wave moves! It depends on how strong and how close to the Earth's surface the earthquake is!!! What toxins are released in MTR??? What toxins are in mountains that no one knows about??? Flocculants are used in the washing of coal to make the coal fines sink to the bottom of an impoundment to be covered by refuse rock. Here is a little simpler term for flocculant... FLOC

[fuckyamountains]

Let me guess.... Coal somehow caused the tsunami a couple year back also, correct???

You people need to leave us the hell alone before one of ya gets hurt, truthfully!!! You just can't barge out on a job unannouced and expect everyone to see ya.... I hope no one gets hurt, but if ya keep it up, it's bound to happen!!! Look at this vid... Accidents happen, that's all this video shows!

[mountainjustice]

Another day, another violent threat from a coal industry supporter.

Buddy I have no doubt at all that you and your friends are capable of violence towards environmentalists. You all remind me of the violent southerners in the film "Mississippi Burning."

[fuckyamountains]

Oh, there was never any doubt that we could kick your all's asses!!! What I am saying is that when you come on the job sites in your "Civil Disobidience Acts", there is going to come the day when an accident like in the video is going to happen! Big machines = big blind spots!!! And yes, when people try to take our jobs, we may tend to get a little violent. That is anywhere though.

[liztish6833]

wow you are 24 and just annoy me! You know nothing of the real world at all. And just to correct some facts the tsunami was caused by effects from climate chage which coal id directly linked to. Whether is blasting or mining there is no such thing as clean coal. You would think if you worked with it you would know a little something about it.

I think little boys should spend more time researching on the internet than running your mouth when you have nothing to back it up with!!

[showaltermicro]

Good vid, where they have failed, I will try to fix.

[alexcaulfield]

Dave, excellent piece, great job of exposing the truth about cat walker and their misleading ads.

[FluxRostrum]

brilliant job!

[tanyabernicetheday]

Dave, this is incredible. so powerful. will you be using this on the road show??

[gocats678]

Great Video, sad stories. If this is what it takes to have cheap electricity it isn't worth it. Stop Mountain Top Removal. It's crazy insane.