Oh yeah they also get paid holidays like three weeks of them, plus sick days, vacation pay, toped off with yearly BONUSES. I want their lifestyle mine freakin sucks!
Government get free food, free gas, free clothing, free vehicles free alot of other things with alot of money like 100.00-400.00 + an hour we the little people had these rich people taking this money from our back pockets, now after building million dollar a month sky scrapers, they build these huge airports, huge banks, and another money company called the IRS that taxes everything. Then start picking on us hard workers by handing out millions of DUI's then lowering their family insurance. SICK
They should dig up the Mountains in Virginia, plant huge coast guards , huge IRS, huge FBI buildings, all this crap in Virginia and Maryland theres no Ocean over here everyone is paying these monsters to take from us by raising the prices of everything as they monitor our every move and have us locked up for long periods of time it''s sick. Like Mike Tyson beating on a little baby it's sick. How many DUI's did these police earn these monsters this year
Doesn't this cause a large amount of flooding? Any way you look at it..........my famous last words are "Don't ya think we have about PROGRESSED ourseleves......TO THE END?"
thankyou so much for the post, we need all the help we can get. We were here long before these coal mines, and furthermore, the miners they imported to work em. Aint many miners can say their family was here even before 1820. We been livin in these hills since 1630. Im tired of this jobs speech from the miners. How bout someone pays you 40 bucks an hour to stab your mom? Its a job right? We dont want these mines tearn up our place. If you do, then u dont belong here.
Coal kills when and where it is mined, when and where it is burned, and when and where its waste is disposed of. The destruction of public housing is in large a result of coal ash waste used as fill dirt, dumps, and landfills from coal-gasification plants that operated throughout this country between 1880s and 1960s until natural gas put them out of business. Now coal-gasification plants are resurfacing as "clean coal." MY video shows coal waste in public housing.
@mikeya1009 well technically most people are considered "terrorists" now a days, and most peoples definition of terrorist is someone in another country, or doing bad things to us. so technically you are choosing between actually fighting for something worth while that effects you and all your fellow nation or fight some pretend constantly changing threat designed to distract. If you want to fight terrorists, find all the nazis they let off, the president, Monsanto, big pharma and fight them.
Until you got a solution, keep your damn mouth shut
you’re just another problem we've found.
We put our heart and soul into diggin’ coal
we’re the West Virginia Underground!!
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People have nothing better to do than sit on the internet and talk shit about somewhere that is in there country. People should be more concerned about the fucking terrorist then about good old boys in West Virginia. People just living there life.
@mikeya1009 well technically most people are considered "terrorists" now a days, and most peoples definition of terrorist is someone in another country, or doing bad things to us. so technically you are choosing between actually fighting for something worth while that effects you and all your fellow nation or fight some pretend constantly changing threat designed to distract. If you want to fight terrorists, find all the nazis they let off, the president, Monsanto, big pharma and fight them.
Hey, lets all have a level of maturity.... It is of utter importance that the government is raping our lands, they are always turning there cheeks when money is dangled in there faces. WEST VIRGINIA is beautiful! If you people where not so ignorant maybe you could get past stereotypes and the serious nature of what is really happening in AMERICA!!!
we need to attack nuclear not coal coal mining helps us i see what they do i live not a mile from a sruface mine i see what it looks like befor and after they do a good job
I'd bet that big coal mine executive interviewed in the big high rise bldg. for this documentary doesn't have a mountain top removal disaster going on anywhere near his home!! It's like larsinla said below...it's not over until there's no more coal to be had.
There is no win-win, only loss for greed! Deep coal extraction is the way to keep the miners working and our lights on and the water and land intact!!
IM not a tree huggin hippie at all but I agree, dont say that it's a win win situation you fuckin fat pocket southerner, spraying green chemical filled mud on coal slack wont make a mountain forrest appear you dipshits.
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ALL YOU TREEHUGGING FUCKS ARE LAZY NO BATHING HIPPIE WANTABEES tthat are too lazy to actually work. I hope you all freeze in the dark you inbred fucks.
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Mountain top removal is bad. however, without the coal we would have no source of income. and who wants to move to the southern part of West Va anyways? People like the guy driving the truck are the only people there. you have to be a white redneck to fit in. It is so ugly there unless it snows or it is fall. otherwise it is brown and dreary.
Im from southern WV you can STFU BITCH! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT IS TO BE FROM WEST VIRGINIA. FUCK OFF. ITS NOT BROWN AND DREARY!!! ARE YOU KIDDING?!?!? YOU ARE A TOTAL IDIOT!! HOLLISTERSTUNNER=DUMBASS!!!
MTR is horrible. But there are alternatives for the electricity we need. See the grassroots project being developed for Coal River Mountain. A wind farm on top of the mountain! We should help them get it going. No destruction; free air!
I think both sides have it wrong. First, my user name is the name of a coal town. So, no, you wont get a tree hugger.
Howver, when you get tokld, nothing grows on slate and 20 years later its a forest, thank God nothing grew huh?
BUT, mountain top removal is not win win. They want quiet. They want you to see nothing. However, its wiped out. Its gone and worse yet, you lose entire towns, years of history and truth be told, they want it gone. Its just a future ATV path for another company.
Win-win? How do shopping centers, golf courses and airstrips really contribute towards people's well being?
They are more like vehicles promoting unsustainable lifestyles and unfair trade practices, which ultimately result in even more demand for the fossil fuels that they dug up there in the first place!
Stop the madness! Lets all think of what we really want out of life individually, as a society, and as fellow lifeforms aboard our little planet. Should fossil fuels count for much?
Coal is just a nasty business. Look at what Massey CEO Don Blankenship has tried to do to W.V. just so he can keep raping and poisoning the state. He's literally bribed and bought the W.V. Supreme Court and tried to buy the W.V. House for the GOP. Google it.
Coal is good for nothing. The USA does not need it. We'll be a healthier and wealthier country the day we remove our dependence on it. Coal ought to be outlawed. Thank God KS' Gov Sebelius has stood up like she has to Big Coal.
I'd bet that big coal mine executive interviewed in the big high rise bldg. for this documentary doesn't have a mountain top removal disaster going on anywhere near his home!! It's like larsinla said below...it's not over until there's no more coal to be had.
What's next on their agenda? It could be stopped by the heads of each state & our government, but there's too much money in it for THEM. That's all there is to it. They don't mind putting the old time miners out of work in the name of progress. Where will these miners find work?
Will this mean when they complete MTR on all of the old existing traditional mine sites that they'll start blowing the tops off the remaining mountains that had not been mined in the past to search for coal there too?
The Short Cutts of Rich Men Will Be Poisoning Us For Years. Not just from coal. You don't have to be a tree hugger to want to have creeks with live fish in them. I'M A RED NECK HILLBILLY TRIED AND TRUE and I say to those who accept MTR to stop worrying if THE LIGHTS ARE ON so much and worry about if you can go fishing, or even sit in the mountains with out gettin' TOXIC Coal Slurry in your ass crack. May they hear the screams and cries of THE GHOSTS OF BUFFALO CREEK in thier dreams forever.
I myself am a coal miner from Logan County, WV and know the impacts of Surface "Strip" mining and see the effects of it everyday. The process has never been done correctly in any surrounding areas. Some places near my home have been "reclaimed" at least 20 years ago and still nothing grows there.
LMAO i know him!! pat hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahah he was my dads best friend in high school and he married my moms cousin lmaoooo hes a crac head this is hilarious
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Over 50% of the electricity generated in the U.S. is by domestic coal. Not to mention it thrives the WV economy. This whole video is wrong. Stupid people.
First of all, this commentator is riding around with a guy smoking pot and drinking beer from Boone Co. so you know he is a few apples shy of a bushel. Second, these statistics and mines are very old. There are many regulations in place now to insure quality reclamation. Come on, in the 1960's paint was made from lead and asbestos was frivolous in buildings. Do you see that now? No. So quit driving your 12mpg SUV's and turn your lights and tv's off when you leave your house.
P.S. most WVians love their mountains we don't need them turned into anything. These companies just show a complete ignorance to appalachian culture and pride
The most idiotic comment I heard was Hamilton referring to flat land like that's what we want in WV. I can say as a WV native and lover that this is pure example of BS. The flatland isn't used and when it is half the places that are built there sink or fall over. There's no agriculture, and we don't need that much development. Development is not a necc bad thing but come on they've cleared enough for multiple manhattans, it's disgusting.
keep in mind on this video that nearly all of the places that are shown that have been mined happened before all of the reclamation laws of the late 60's and 70's took place.
CORPORATIONS dont have a clue that nature might have a reason for what she creates and where, like rivers and streams. men are playing like God to feel like creators. next it will be the universe they mess with if they have not really blown hole in ozone in the 40's nuke test.
Did you ever think for a second that since we are part of nature, corporations were natures way of destroying the world and making way for a new one? Huh buhhhh?
he also didnt bother to mention the families that are fed by coal and coal related jobs these seams of coal cannot be mined in a conventional wan as someone said (digging a hole) if they could i assure you they would be its cheaper it is too close to the surface to be mined that way
toxins from mountain top drilling? wtf? ive seen so much crap posted about this video it is really sad that people can watch a short clip and assume they have some idea what they are talking about west virginias only industry is mining they very electricity powering your computers right now come from it ive hauled coal mined and hydroseeded all my life the guy in this video didnt bother mentioning the trees that get planted or the wildlife that is returned
Do you know what happens to the debri that is leftover after they blow the tops off? It rolls down the sides of the mountains and into the creeks. The people that live in the valley are on well water. They end up with the toxins in their system which in turn gives them cancer.
I have a two year old cousin that has cancer. The doctors at children's memorial in Chicago think that the cancer is due from the toxins left over from the mountain top drilling.
Not true...about the top of mountains rolling into creeks. There are VERY strict rules forbidding that, and there are "catch ditches" or "benches" cut into the sides to prevent that. The above post came from someone who didn't educate on a subject before speaking. Sorry about your cousin, though. Cancer is a very bad thing that happens to even people who live nowhere near coalmines.
you all need to do an episode about how the coal mines cover up all of the serious injuries that occur. My friend just came out of a six month coma due to a faulty brake system on the truck he was driving. they knew that the brakes were bad but they told him to drive the truck or lose his job.
My parents are from West Virginia, and I might not be, but I sure as hell care about that state, most of my family's land is being bought out from under us just because the coal companies are allowed to "foreclose" on our land, I say thats pure bullshit, no law says they can do that, their just bribing goverment people and banks so they can!
Coal Companies shouldn't have the rights to blow the tops off of something that they don't own. I believe that mountains are public property aren't they?
Excluding myself, everyone in my family was born in WV.
It's a bummer that these hill billy hicks are too dumb to understand what how they are destroying our an amazing state w/great mountans and killing the environment. Be resourceful and identify a better way...We put a man on the moon, invented google, bla bla bla..but we can't mine coal in a more friendly way, give me a break. Stupid hicks.
I'm from Boone country and when I asked that fellow why he was helping those NYC clowns put us down, he said they promised him some showbiz work. It's the Dancin Outlaw all over again.
I bet if this guy in the video took a different route then he'd see that the guy that owns this land he is allowed on has 5 rusty cars leaking everything into the soil, 5 old fridges that leak freon into the air, the last 200 tires he took off his car and the skins from all the animals he poached.
I'm from WV as well. Sure we don't like to see mountains obliterated. Sure the reclaimed areas might not support oak trees for 300 years. But let's be honest, nobody lives in these areas. The mining companies own it all, the areas are incredibly poor, and tourists don't travel there because there are identical places much closer. I think think this method of mining is more efficient and safer. The reclamation is decent and the water coming from them is usually within the mandated range.
The dork that has done this video probably sneaked in. If the locals had spotted him or knew what his young ass was up to he probably would not have left. Some of those old underground mines are deep.
I grew up in West Virginia. I was shocked by this video. I can't believe the damage that has been done. It is irretrievable! Whether you are an evolutionist or a creationist, it is clear that man cannot bring back the mountains.
They don't get off of I-77 between Charleston and Beckley. The state doesn't advertise this part of WV. Almost heaven, god's country. How about the dark side of the moon...
They are raping this land. And don't let them talk about development on top of these mountains. This isn't the big city. They won't be shopping malls or airports, because everyone is moving away. The mines are running everyone out of southern WV. Airports, malls? Maybe for the tourists, but then again, they don't see this part of the state.
I was on my way down to the Raleigh County side and a big backhoe was coming up the mountain, so I had to drive in reverse up hill and find a place to turn around. There was no activity on the mountain that day. They have been strip mining for years. Where everyone lives in the valleys you never see this destruction going on. I got my first taste of how bad it was in 1994 when I flew over this area getting ready to land at Yeager Airport in Charleston.
I grew up in WV and left there as a teenager in 1989. I lived in Raleigh County not to far from Kayford in the video. I remember my dad taking us up Kayford Mountain from the Raleigh County side over into Kanawha County back in the early 80's. I took that same drive in 2005 from the Kanawha County side and saw what looked like the moon up there. The entire mountain was gone!
I live in WV. WV has been a democrat controlled state for the last 50 years +. If you don't think that Manchin, Rockefeller, and Robert KKK Byrd control everything that happens here, than you are a fool!
I was born and raised in Clarksburg. I shipped out for the Navy when I graduated WI (now Robert C. Byrd.) My political science class attended Clinton's inauguration. I understand the Democratic sentiment, but the State voted for Bush in 2000. The Republican-led House (your new elected Representatives) passed H.R. 2719. That was for the coal companies. Check WV Democrats' website and see who is on Don's payroll. many of these politicians are in office now and are Republican.
I live in WV. There are far far more Democrats than Republicans! And, the coal, oil & gas companies call the shots. You picture well how ugly the land is where mountain top removal is done. And, the native trees, etc, cannot grow in the "reclaimed" land's soil.
This does not have to be done. Ever heard of strip mining. In wyoming they produce several times more caol with less enviromental damage. W.V is holding onto a dying industry! it's so sad we need to move on with alternate sources of energy. I wish these republican fucks would quit destroting MY KIDS' future.
This is bigger than ruling of a state. So don't give your biast opinion of whether it is democrats or republicans to blame. I'll point one finger to a man you can blame...all the way to the top...thank you "W." He has given us so much, like hell on earth.
yes...as far as i can tell, bush is responsible for everything from the appocolypse to the common cold. if only he hadn't of been born, all of this mountaintop removal that started in the 70's would never have happened!
This does not have to be done. Ever heard of strip mining))
Roflmao you just showed the world how fucking stuipid you are WTF you think this is other than STRIP Mining jesus christ the ignorant people alive today
on another note, i've lived here in the WV for 31 years and for the MOST part, you don't see this kind of stuff. It's been going on for decades now and i PROMISE you, if you visit, you'll have to search for these baren places.
In additione, WV has been run by democrats for over 70 years...this isn't some "republican conspiracy"
about 500,000 acres of mountaintop have been leveled in WV. you won't have to search very hard in Logan, Mingo, Kanawha, Boone and Raleigh. I addressed the fallacy that WV is still blue in another post. The appt. of Republican Benjamin Brent to the State Supreme Court was engineered by Don Blankenship. It is a Republican conspiracy, in this case. Big money rides on this issue, and your kids be damned.
I know Valley Fills are still being done... I live in Cabin Creek, WV. I ride over and around several of these type strip mines, How can you say it is not practiced? what do you do with a mountain top while you get the coal out? Yes the valley next to the mountain is filled. It is cheap, easy, and you dont have to transport the dirt, just push it in the valley. Its the WV Coal miner way.
No, not liberal propoganda. Septics aren't the only people that live on this earth and the effects of what is happening here (West Virginia) will have repercussions everywhere else. Ignorance (yours) is not attractive and certainly not balanced.
This is one of the worst, most biased clips on the net. All the knownothing bleeingheart liberal chicks will go wild seeing a mountain that has been mined lol. Mining has gone on for 10,000 years. WV has so many hills that it would take another 10,000 years just to mine 10% of them. No story here, just liberal propaganda, go home folks. And for all the morons that don't know, WV is a Democrap run State. Only the very poor or uneducated vote for Democraps.
WV was bought by the Republicans. Don Blankenship spent $6 million to get his cronies in office, and they kept up their end of the bargain by passing a rule change to the Clean Water Act which redefined "waste." now toxic heavy metals such as mercury, copper, arsenic, lead and selenium are dumped into your fresh water by the tons. the Bush administration did that for you. keep voting Republican; your children will thank you for their cancer.
"It was a mountain at one time, covered in thick forest, been raped now" AS THEY SHOW THE DEER! Man, not to mention all of the growth that has restarted in areas.
Valley fills are a non-existent practice anymore or did you forget to mention that?
I would be interested to know the energy source used to produce these videos.
Hydroseeding is a mix of grass seed, starting fertilizers, mulch (cellulose fibers).
If you want to see how fast land is reclaimed after an intense mining operation; the copper country in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan are covered with beautiful forests, grasses and inhabited by deer, moose, wolves and a plethora of other wildlife...from just 100 years ago or less.
Ultimately it is up to each of us to "get back to the garden".
We must simplify our lives to a local village level and make do with simple things to stir the heart. Give up this idea "material things make me happy" mentality. Stop going to malls for your few real needs. Yes.
Buy shoes from a local shoe maker. Buy milk from a local dairy farmer. When the demand for energy decreases the rape of the land for the energy will decrease.
Thanks for this important report - makes me wonder if that exec - Chris Hamilton - isn't fucking retarded by his own greed - I feel sorry for his kids - but more sorry for the honest people he's exploiting and their children. Thanks for allowing me to express my indignation - win-win reconfiguration my ass.
The environment does have an amazing ability to heal itself...over millions of years. The good news is that humans will die as a result of their own environmental destruction and then the earth really will have a chance to heal.
can you just d othe underground mining to get the coal and save the moutains's coal companys don't give a shit bout the mountains they just care about the profits
this is bad and another bad trip with our current leadership in our goverment democrate or republican its all the same party. Theives let vote another one in people! Absolute power absolute corruption
The mining industry, like the oil industry, is lead by some of the most pathetic scum mankind has to offer. These people should be KILLED before they kill the rest of us. Everything that comes out of these people's mouths is a lie bent toward preserving the insane profits they are seeing from this destructive process. The areas they have destroyed will be devoid of wildlife for hundreds of years in the future. Thanks George Bush. Thanks capitalism.
it isnt those peoples problems, its their job, they are just trying to make it, its the government. They just want theirs, and dont think about the future at all.
Comments like this that call for the death of the individuals diminish the important message here and turn people off to what's most important...finding an economical and environmentally friendly form of energy supply. It's also not all Bush's fault either. This form of mining (a type of strip mining) has been used for decades.
You keep forgetting you want to eat the steak,but don't want to see the cow shot. Now,if you stop mountain top removal,you wil stop a cheaper way to make electricity.That little thing that you use to power your camera to make the worthless propaganda in this video.Just remember the man who has pastured well above 100 head of cattle on reclaimed land that was mountaintop mined when you reach into the supermarket's meat cooler next time.
Well, that's not entirely true! Off course most ways to generate electricity are very environmentally unfriendly, but it shouldn't have to be like this!!
They should choose the lesser of two evils, which, I think, in this case, should be mining without taking the tops of mountains off, but just digging, I guess!!
The biggest problem about this is everyone who is planning all this shit are a bunch of old guys who future in this state they wont see, but hows it going to effect people my age?? They dont give a shit,
Sure there are ways - it's wind power, solar power, water power. Clean and environmentally friendly. Big problem is, there's no money to be made once it's set up. It's all about a small handful of people making gobs of money on this and crapping on their grandchildren in the process. Native Americans have a saying - that whatever you do on this earth will affect the next 7 generations. But these suits, they're all about the here and now. Screw the rest of us.
okay so let's work on other energy sources, but more importantly let's stop using so much energy in the first place. the bulk of energy is used by industry for totally non-essential production. we don't need any more crap in our already overflowing-with-crap lives. what we need is clean water, clean air, thriving ecosystems...what a concept....
mesolithic forests take 10000 years to evolve. when they are gone, they are gone. you can't 'replant' a mesolithic forest. which side are you on? it amazes me how many people defend the crooks who are destroying our planet. they've trained you well.
This brings to mind a childhood story of Mr. McMillen's mountain. (I'm not sure if that's the right name.) Anyway, he and his wife wanted the mountain moved, and then realized all the things the mountain was good for. Sadly, our world will not turn out like the story. He had the mountain rebuilt and lived happyily ever after....
well im from VA and considering how close WV is to me i dont see state lines but i do travel to WV often for the beautiful untouched mountains and rivers that you can't find anywhere else and slowly you do see mountain top removal coal mines each time you go so keep on fighting alternative fuels like wind power and ethanol fuel.would you rather dam the valleys for hydro power?at least you could run some 2 cycle jetskis and fuck up the environment somemore all the while "enjoying the outdoors"!
How the hell do you rebuild a mountain? Mountains are suppose to be natural not man made. I was born in Chicago but my family are all from WV. My dad said that when he went home for a visit that he didn't recognize the place. He thought that he was in the wrong state because the mountains that he remembered were gone.
Oh yeah they also get paid holidays like three weeks of them, plus sick days, vacation pay, toped off with yearly BONUSES. I want their lifestyle mine freakin sucks!
webworkhere 4 months ago
Government get free food, free gas, free clothing, free vehicles free alot of other things with alot of money like 100.00-400.00 + an hour we the little people had these rich people taking this money from our back pockets, now after building million dollar a month sky scrapers, they build these huge airports, huge banks, and another money company called the IRS that taxes everything. Then start picking on us hard workers by handing out millions of DUI's then lowering their family insurance. SICK
webworkhere 4 months ago
They should dig up the Mountains in Virginia, plant huge coast guards , huge IRS, huge FBI buildings, all this crap in Virginia and Maryland theres no Ocean over here everyone is paying these monsters to take from us by raising the prices of everything as they monitor our every move and have us locked up for long periods of time it''s sick. Like Mike Tyson beating on a little baby it's sick. How many DUI's did these police earn these monsters this year
webworkhere 4 months ago
ban mountain top removal.
there are better ways to get the coal or rare earth that you are going for.
its called underground mining.
SereneiBE 4 months ago in playlist Mountain Top Removal WV & Kentucky
0:35 Any relation to the "wild and wonderful" Whites?
CrunchBogus 7 months ago
The coal dude sould buy a smaller tie that matches his suit
icelineman 10 months ago
@icelineman yea dude i had to do a double take.......WTF that's a huge tie!
toddatron 4 months ago
Doesn't this cause a large amount of flooding? Any way you look at it..........my famous last words are "Don't ya think we have about PROGRESSED ourseleves......TO THE END?"
SandyzSerious 10 months ago
them Boone county boys representin West Virginia the right way
thats damn right boys
gibson1789 11 months ago
Fuck u. not all of WV is like this
DaMan3388 1 year ago
so sad..just too sad.
melovecats90 1 year ago
they send a black guy, haha fuckin good job.
dopertearz4life 1 year ago
thankyou so much for the post, we need all the help we can get. We were here long before these coal mines, and furthermore, the miners they imported to work em. Aint many miners can say their family was here even before 1820. We been livin in these hills since 1630. Im tired of this jobs speech from the miners. How bout someone pays you 40 bucks an hour to stab your mom? Its a job right? We dont want these mines tearn up our place. If you do, then u dont belong here.
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Coal kills when and where it is mined, when and where it is burned, and when and where its waste is disposed of. The destruction of public housing is in large a result of coal ash waste used as fill dirt, dumps, and landfills from coal-gasification plants that operated throughout this country between 1880s and 1960s until natural gas put them out of business. Now coal-gasification plants are resurfacing as "clean coal." MY video shows coal waste in public housing.
Rubenleesims 1 year ago
if your dont like turn off your lights!
softbll88 1 year ago
Incredible, humans are the caretakers of this planet, and our leaders are the caretakers who don't care, they just take.
AkamuSlayer 1 year ago
@AkamuSlayer , the planet will take care of itself, probably by wiping us out... my bet is on starvation.
rg0057 1 year ago
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@mikeya1009 well technically most people are considered "terrorists" now a days, and most peoples definition of terrorist is someone in another country, or doing bad things to us. so technically you are choosing between actually fighting for something worth while that effects you and all your fellow nation or fight some pretend constantly changing threat designed to distract. If you want to fight terrorists, find all the nazis they let off, the president, Monsanto, big pharma and fight them.
ForTrueHealth 1 year ago
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I don’t remember askin’ you to pat my back
but damn, don’t you ride it so hard.
You talk about new ways and better plans
but you ain’t showed me nothin’ so far.
Until you got a solution, keep your damn mouth shut
you’re just another problem we've found.
We put our heart and soul into diggin’ coal
we’re the West Virginia Underground!!
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LiveFastDiePretty0 1 year ago
I don’t remember askin’ you to pat my back
but damn, don’t you ride it so hard.
You talk about new ways and better plans
but you ain’t showed me nothin’ so far.
Until you got a solution, keep your damn mouth shut
you’re just another problem we've found.
We put our heart and soul into diggin’ coal
we’re the West Virginia Underground!!
-->REPOST IF YOUR FOR COAL MINING && THEY'RE FAMILYS!!
LiveFastDiePretty0 1 year ago
I don’t remember askin’ you to pat my back
but damn, don’t you ride it so hard.
You talk about new ways and better plans
but you ain’t showed me nothin’ so far.
Until you got a solution, keep your damn mouth shut
you’re just another problem we've found.
We put our heart and soul into diggin’ coal
we’re the West Virginia Underground!!
-->REPOST IF YOUR FOR COAL MINING && THEY'RE FAMILYS!! WE LIGHT THE PEOPLES HOUSE THAT ARE AGAINST IT SO THEY CAN COMPLAIN?! PLEASE, SHUT THE !@#$ UP!!! Thank you!
LiveFastDiePretty0 1 year ago
Hi..I would like to make a difference. I am a currently unemployed in CT, I am plannimg to move WV,,,contact me,,,I would love to help!
Stephsway 1 year ago
People have nothing better to do than sit on the internet and talk shit about somewhere that is in there country. People should be more concerned about the fucking terrorist then about good old boys in West Virginia. People just living there life.
mikeya1009 1 year ago
@mikeya1009 well technically most people are considered "terrorists" now a days, and most peoples definition of terrorist is someone in another country, or doing bad things to us. so technically you are choosing between actually fighting for something worth while that effects you and all your fellow nation or fight some pretend constantly changing threat designed to distract. If you want to fight terrorists, find all the nazis they let off, the president, Monsanto, big pharma and fight them.
ForTrueHealth 1 year ago
when they valley fill they dont bury equiptment
oneiook 1 year ago
Hey, lets all have a level of maturity.... It is of utter importance that the government is raping our lands, they are always turning there cheeks when money is dangled in there faces. WEST VIRGINIA is beautiful! If you people where not so ignorant maybe you could get past stereotypes and the serious nature of what is really happening in AMERICA!!!
gratefulcolorado 1 year ago
this gives all of us here in west virginia a bad name FUCK YOU ALL
yowazup23 2 years ago
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West Virginia is the WORST state in the USA.
The only people who live there are drugheads and IDIOTS.
CharmingSage 1 year ago
@CharmingSage if i were to guess, i would say your from jersey...fuckin fags who live there
tylong2011 1 year ago
awsome
mrsoundwave 2 years ago
they put top soil back and i no were two airports on a mine site you all dont no nothing
dozer3man 2 years ago
we need to attack nuclear not coal coal mining helps us i see what they do i live not a mile from a sruface mine i see what it looks like befor and after they do a good job
dozer3man 2 years ago
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I'd bet that big coal mine executive interviewed in the big high rise bldg. for this documentary doesn't have a mountain top removal disaster going on anywhere near his home!! It's like larsinla said below...it's not over until there's no more coal to be had.
Bdasef 2 years ago
Its none of your business you spider headed tree hugger.Get a hair cut!
thager11 2 years ago
There is no win-win, only loss for greed! Deep coal extraction is the way to keep the miners working and our lights on and the water and land intact!!
The1dawnipoo 2 years ago
IM not a tree huggin hippie at all but I agree, dont say that it's a win win situation you fuckin fat pocket southerner, spraying green chemical filled mud on coal slack wont make a mountain forrest appear you dipshits.
307OLDS 2 years ago 3
Screw that. Im going on vacation there for the hills. Thats disgousting. Leave it alone
camaroracer454 2 years ago
u need to learn to spell...and keep your mouth shut.
thager11 2 years ago
diiddd i speeel somtunin wrnong?
camaroracer454 2 years ago
Uh...Yeah.U idiot.
thager11 2 years ago
lol i didnt spell one thing wrong in my first comment. no i didnt see deliverance
camaroracer454 2 years ago
You're not welcome here...U ever see deliverance?
thager11 2 years ago
ha i looked it up, so how come im not welcome into west virginia?
camaroracer454 2 years ago
i saw the movie .... you wouldn't be refering to the inbreeds that had sex with animals and raped a fat man would you
oneknothead 2 years ago
Flat land in WV is a fantastic idea. Leveling the whole state for a few bucks isn't.
UglySouth 2 years ago
spread the word all over you tube to get people to care about USA land for future generations the oldway was the betterway
bestwayusa1 2 years ago 3
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spread the word all over you tube to get people to care about USA land for future generations the oldway was the betterway
bestwayusa1 2 years ago 2
Hey WV , you can make your own solar power for under 200 dollars, and 1 weekend.!
SHUT THE FUCK UP about coal being mans only hope, I think wood stoves worked fine for what the last 2000 years,
Your miner forefathers must be so proud, digging up their graves so your kids can play xbox !
you bitches lay down like good christian dogs
Keep having SOMEONE ELSE suffer for your convenience, and do your work !
Apathetic lap dog satanists,
with Christ as your LABEL
NoN4M3ss3ng3R 2 years ago
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ALL YOU TREEHUGGING FUCKS ARE LAZY NO BATHING HIPPIE WANTABEES tthat are too lazy to actually work. I hope you all freeze in the dark you inbred fucks.
RobbyL31 2 years ago
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Mountain top removal is bad. however, without the coal we would have no source of income. and who wants to move to the southern part of West Va anyways? People like the guy driving the truck are the only people there. you have to be a white redneck to fit in. It is so ugly there unless it snows or it is fall. otherwise it is brown and dreary.
hollisterstunner 3 years ago
Im from southern WV you can STFU BITCH! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT IS TO BE FROM WEST VIRGINIA. FUCK OFF. ITS NOT BROWN AND DREARY!!! ARE YOU KIDDING?!?!? YOU ARE A TOTAL IDIOT!! HOLLISTERSTUNNER=DUMBASS!!!
mountaineerfan94 3 years ago 2
Well after the Aussie globalist SAGO Chiefs flatten Beckley,
more people will move there ! So we can make those Lewis Chevorlet girls even more rich !
Ooo maybe if were extra good they'll open a new Hydrocodone store in town
I mean like 15 is enough !
LMAO @ Blind Ass hicks !
Snipedanwo 2 years ago
MTR is horrible. But there are alternatives for the electricity we need. See the grassroots project being developed for Coal River Mountain. A wind farm on top of the mountain! We should help them get it going. No destruction; free air!
3273049 3 years ago 2
is that the guy from the truth commercials??
detroitdeezy 3 years ago
Pat is suck a cracc headddd.wow he needs help.lmao
iloveeeeuu 3 years ago
I think both sides have it wrong. First, my user name is the name of a coal town. So, no, you wont get a tree hugger.
Howver, when you get tokld, nothing grows on slate and 20 years later its a forest, thank God nothing grew huh?
BUT, mountain top removal is not win win. They want quiet. They want you to see nothing. However, its wiped out. Its gone and worse yet, you lose entire towns, years of history and truth be told, they want it gone. Its just a future ATV path for another company.
whitbywv 3 years ago 2
Mountain Top Removel is Raping WV, There are area's of this state were only weeds will grow after their done.
wvtitansfan 3 years ago 3
i live where they strip mined and it looks just like it did before they mined, even better to tell the truth
runie360 3 years ago
Yes Yes , nice, neat, orderly just like our fake Christian asses !
If God wanted it that way ,he would'a made it that way. Don Blankenship is an Eco-terrorist with an army of 20,000 (not 160,000 like in the 80's)
"miners" that are really glorified truck drivers !
Snipedanwo 2 years ago
Win-win? How do shopping centers, golf courses and airstrips really contribute towards people's well being?
They are more like vehicles promoting unsustainable lifestyles and unfair trade practices, which ultimately result in even more demand for the fossil fuels that they dug up there in the first place!
Stop the madness! Lets all think of what we really want out of life individually, as a society, and as fellow lifeforms aboard our little planet. Should fossil fuels count for much?
CCDR07 3 years ago 2
FUCK MT top REMOVAL!!!!!!!!! im form Wv this shit is fucked
chasingthesun381 3 years ago
go hug another tree and we will come behind you and cut it down before we mine the coal
jojustice1 3 years ago
lol
WV24985 3 years ago
Coal is just a nasty business. Look at what Massey CEO Don Blankenship has tried to do to W.V. just so he can keep raping and poisoning the state. He's literally bribed and bought the W.V. Supreme Court and tried to buy the W.V. House for the GOP. Google it.
Coal is good for nothing. The USA does not need it. We'll be a healthier and wealthier country the day we remove our dependence on it. Coal ought to be outlawed. Thank God KS' Gov Sebelius has stood up like she has to Big Coal.
politiclips 3 years ago
I'd bet that big coal mine executive interviewed in the big high rise bldg. for this documentary doesn't have a mountain top removal disaster going on anywhere near his home!! It's like larsinla said below...it's not over until there's no more coal to be had.
Bdasef 2 years ago
What's next on their agenda? It could be stopped by the heads of each state & our government, but there's too much money in it for THEM. That's all there is to it. They don't mind putting the old time miners out of work in the name of progress. Where will these miners find work?
Bdasef 2 years ago
Will this mean when they complete MTR on all of the old existing traditional mine sites that they'll start blowing the tops off the remaining mountains that had not been mined in the past to search for coal there too?
Bdasef 2 years ago
I am sad.
prncs68 3 years ago
The Short Cutts of Rich Men Will Be Poisoning Us For Years. Not just from coal. You don't have to be a tree hugger to want to have creeks with live fish in them. I'M A RED NECK HILLBILLY TRIED AND TRUE and I say to those who accept MTR to stop worrying if THE LIGHTS ARE ON so much and worry about if you can go fishing, or even sit in the mountains with out gettin' TOXIC Coal Slurry in your ass crack. May they hear the screams and cries of THE GHOSTS OF BUFFALO CREEK in thier dreams forever.
NewCultureProduction 3 years ago
I myself am a coal miner from Logan County, WV and know the impacts of Surface "Strip" mining and see the effects of it everyday. The process has never been done correctly in any surrounding areas. Some places near my home have been "reclaimed" at least 20 years ago and still nothing grows there.
fordman0078 3 years ago 15
LMAO i know him!! pat hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahah he was my dads best friend in high school and he married my moms cousin lmaoooo hes a crac head this is hilarious
iloveeeeuu 3 years ago
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Over 50% of the electricity generated in the U.S. is by domestic coal. Not to mention it thrives the WV economy. This whole video is wrong. Stupid people.
WVskiman 4 years ago
@WVskiman sorry, but you give us americans a bad name.
have you ever heard of "underground mining"?
just because surface mining gets you more blood money doesn't give you the excuse to level a beautiful mountain.
ban mountain top removal
SereneiBE 4 months ago
First of all, this commentator is riding around with a guy smoking pot and drinking beer from Boone Co. so you know he is a few apples shy of a bushel. Second, these statistics and mines are very old. There are many regulations in place now to insure quality reclamation. Come on, in the 1960's paint was made from lead and asbestos was frivolous in buildings. Do you see that now? No. So quit driving your 12mpg SUV's and turn your lights and tv's off when you leave your house.
WVskiman 4 years ago 2
P.S. most WVians love their mountains we don't need them turned into anything. These companies just show a complete ignorance to appalachian culture and pride
wvwarrrior 4 years ago
The most idiotic comment I heard was Hamilton referring to flat land like that's what we want in WV. I can say as a WV native and lover that this is pure example of BS. The flatland isn't used and when it is half the places that are built there sink or fall over. There's no agriculture, and we don't need that much development. Development is not a necc bad thing but come on they've cleared enough for multiple manhattans, it's disgusting.
wvwarrrior 4 years ago
keep in mind on this video that nearly all of the places that are shown that have been mined happened before all of the reclamation laws of the late 60's and 70's took place.
mattl1985 4 years ago
Some one is missing a great deal of common sense.
The problem is we are exploited by human beings that seem to think we have the right to do what we like with anything on the planet.
What arrogance and how short sighted.
What will they say to their children who inherit the waste land they have made?
glentucker1945 4 years ago
CORPORATIONS dont have a clue that nature might have a reason for what she creates and where, like rivers and streams. men are playing like God to feel like creators. next it will be the universe they mess with if they have not really blown hole in ozone in the 40's nuke test.
mountain19 4 years ago
Did you ever think for a second that since we are part of nature, corporations were natures way of destroying the world and making way for a new one? Huh buhhhh?
madmaxsdp 4 years ago
I applaud the author for at least looking into reclaimation, which wasn't brought up in the part 1 video. See, the land is not just left for dead.
jefffurrow 4 years ago
he also didnt bother to mention the families that are fed by coal and coal related jobs these seams of coal cannot be mined in a conventional wan as someone said (digging a hole) if they could i assure you they would be its cheaper it is too close to the surface to be mined that way
deathrider1974 4 years ago
toxins from mountain top drilling? wtf? ive seen so much crap posted about this video it is really sad that people can watch a short clip and assume they have some idea what they are talking about west virginias only industry is mining they very electricity powering your computers right now come from it ive hauled coal mined and hydroseeded all my life the guy in this video didnt bother mentioning the trees that get planted or the wildlife that is returned
deathrider1974 4 years ago
Do you know what happens to the debri that is leftover after they blow the tops off? It rolls down the sides of the mountains and into the creeks. The people that live in the valley are on well water. They end up with the toxins in their system which in turn gives them cancer.
I have a two year old cousin that has cancer. The doctors at children's memorial in Chicago think that the cancer is due from the toxins left over from the mountain top drilling.
ChgoChef 4 years ago
Not true...about the top of mountains rolling into creeks. There are VERY strict rules forbidding that, and there are "catch ditches" or "benches" cut into the sides to prevent that. The above post came from someone who didn't educate on a subject before speaking. Sorry about your cousin, though. Cancer is a very bad thing that happens to even people who live nowhere near coalmines.
jefffurrow 4 years ago
HOLD IT A F'IN MINUTE Did the oil president guy just blame him stripping away mountaintops because of TERRORISM? LMFAO!!
wow..that guy needs to get a better script writer.
TheTotinator 4 years ago
you all need to do an episode about how the coal mines cover up all of the serious injuries that occur. My friend just came out of a six month coma due to a faulty brake system on the truck he was driving. they knew that the brakes were bad but they told him to drive the truck or lose his job.
adherna 4 years ago
My parents are from West Virginia, and I might not be, but I sure as hell care about that state, most of my family's land is being bought out from under us just because the coal companies are allowed to "foreclose" on our land, I say thats pure bullshit, no law says they can do that, their just bribing goverment people and banks so they can!
callmegeorge 4 years ago
Coal Companies shouldn't have the rights to blow the tops off of something that they don't own. I believe that mountains are public property aren't they?
Excluding myself, everyone in my family was born in WV.
LadyDemocrat
ChgoChef 4 years ago
you are making all of us" non hick" people of the beautiful state of west virginia look bad.. dang cmon
blingin540 4 years ago
It's a bummer that these hill billy hicks are too dumb to understand what how they are destroying our an amazing state w/great mountans and killing the environment. Be resourceful and identify a better way...We put a man on the moon, invented google, bla bla bla..but we can't mine coal in a more friendly way, give me a break. Stupid hicks.
ATrain91us 4 years ago
I'm from Boone country and when I asked that fellow why he was helping those NYC clowns put us down, he said they promised him some showbiz work. It's the Dancin Outlaw all over again.
jnnfrbgly 4 years ago
I bet if this guy in the video took a different route then he'd see that the guy that owns this land he is allowed on has 5 rusty cars leaking everything into the soil, 5 old fridges that leak freon into the air, the last 200 tires he took off his car and the skins from all the animals he poached.
jerdew 4 years ago
I can reassure you that you are all wrong about that guy. I know him well and he not involved in polluting our state.
jnnfrbgly 4 years ago
what guy...
TheTotinator 4 years ago
Some of the land that was mined 20 or 30 years ago is the best wildlife habitat I have seen. Some in my area are Bird sanctuaries now.
Near Charleston and old strip mine is now $250,000 to $750,000 homes that doctor own.
jerdew 4 years ago
I'm from WV as well. Sure we don't like to see mountains obliterated. Sure the reclaimed areas might not support oak trees for 300 years. But let's be honest, nobody lives in these areas. The mining companies own it all, the areas are incredibly poor, and tourists don't travel there because there are identical places much closer. I think think this method of mining is more efficient and safer. The reclamation is decent and the water coming from them is usually within the mandated range.
HardyCountyBoy 4 years ago
my family lives in those areas idiot
callmegeorge 4 years ago
Fucking retarded pot head's I live in wv quit makein it look bad you damn hillbilly.................
yamahamike500 4 years ago
The dork that has done this video probably sneaked in. If the locals had spotted him or knew what his young ass was up to he probably would not have left. Some of those old underground mines are deep.
nermlinger1941 4 years ago
messed up...
deadcurse13 4 years ago
I grew up in West Virginia. I was shocked by this video. I can't believe the damage that has been done. It is irretrievable! Whether you are an evolutionist or a creationist, it is clear that man cannot bring back the mountains.
marywelch58 4 years ago 14
They don't get off of I-77 between Charleston and Beckley. The state doesn't advertise this part of WV. Almost heaven, god's country. How about the dark side of the moon...
moflint 4 years ago 3
They are raping this land. And don't let them talk about development on top of these mountains. This isn't the big city. They won't be shopping malls or airports, because everyone is moving away. The mines are running everyone out of southern WV. Airports, malls? Maybe for the tourists, but then again, they don't see this part of the state.
moflint 4 years ago 2
I was on my way down to the Raleigh County side and a big backhoe was coming up the mountain, so I had to drive in reverse up hill and find a place to turn around. There was no activity on the mountain that day. They have been strip mining for years. Where everyone lives in the valleys you never see this destruction going on. I got my first taste of how bad it was in 1994 when I flew over this area getting ready to land at Yeager Airport in Charleston.
moflint 4 years ago 2
I grew up in WV and left there as a teenager in 1989. I lived in Raleigh County not to far from Kayford in the video. I remember my dad taking us up Kayford Mountain from the Raleigh County side over into Kanawha County back in the early 80's. I took that same drive in 2005 from the Kanawha County side and saw what looked like the moon up there. The entire mountain was gone!
moflint 4 years ago
very sad, disgusting really.
DrOpenHeart 4 years ago 3
I live in WV. WV has been a democrat controlled state for the last 50 years +. If you don't think that Manchin, Rockefeller, and Robert KKK Byrd control everything that happens here, than you are a fool!
mkgal4 4 years ago
I was born and raised in Clarksburg. I shipped out for the Navy when I graduated WI (now Robert C. Byrd.) My political science class attended Clinton's inauguration. I understand the Democratic sentiment, but the State voted for Bush in 2000. The Republican-led House (your new elected Representatives) passed H.R. 2719. That was for the coal companies. Check WV Democrats' website and see who is on Don's payroll. many of these politicians are in office now and are Republican.
gingerpartington 4 years ago
I live in WV. There are far far more Democrats than Republicans! And, the coal, oil & gas companies call the shots. You picture well how ugly the land is where mountain top removal is done. And, the native trees, etc, cannot grow in the "reclaimed" land's soil.
wvrabbit 4 years ago
This does not have to be done. Ever heard of strip mining. In wyoming they produce several times more caol with less enviromental damage. W.V is holding onto a dying industry! it's so sad we need to move on with alternate sources of energy. I wish these republican fucks would quit destroting MY KIDS' future.
soundism 4 years ago
again, this is a democrat ruled state. we've been doing mining like this for years. republicans have nothing to do with it.
stematwork 4 years ago
This is bigger than ruling of a state. So don't give your biast opinion of whether it is democrats or republicans to blame. I'll point one finger to a man you can blame...all the way to the top...thank you "W." He has given us so much, like hell on earth.
GabrielChapman1987 4 years ago
yes...as far as i can tell, bush is responsible for everything from the appocolypse to the common cold. if only he hadn't of been born, all of this mountaintop removal that started in the 70's would never have happened!
stematwork 4 years ago 3
This does not have to be done. Ever heard of strip mining))
Roflmao you just showed the world how fucking stuipid you are WTF you think this is other than STRIP Mining jesus christ the ignorant people alive today
DIESELDEMON306 4 years ago
on another note, i've lived here in the WV for 31 years and for the MOST part, you don't see this kind of stuff. It's been going on for decades now and i PROMISE you, if you visit, you'll have to search for these baren places.
In additione, WV has been run by democrats for over 70 years...this isn't some "republican conspiracy"
stematwork 4 years ago
about 500,000 acres of mountaintop have been leveled in WV. you won't have to search very hard in Logan, Mingo, Kanawha, Boone and Raleigh. I addressed the fallacy that WV is still blue in another post. The appt. of Republican Benjamin Brent to the State Supreme Court was engineered by Don Blankenship. It is a Republican conspiracy, in this case. Big money rides on this issue, and your kids be damned.
gingerpartington 4 years ago
I know Valley Fills are still being done... I live in Cabin Creek, WV. I ride over and around several of these type strip mines, How can you say it is not practiced? what do you do with a mountain top while you get the coal out? Yes the valley next to the mountain is filled. It is cheap, easy, and you dont have to transport the dirt, just push it in the valley. Its the WV Coal miner way.
JobofUz 4 years ago
No, not liberal propoganda. Septics aren't the only people that live on this earth and the effects of what is happening here (West Virginia) will have repercussions everywhere else. Ignorance (yours) is not attractive and certainly not balanced.
coppermint 4 years ago
This is one of the worst, most biased clips on the net. All the knownothing bleeingheart liberal chicks will go wild seeing a mountain that has been mined lol. Mining has gone on for 10,000 years. WV has so many hills that it would take another 10,000 years just to mine 10% of them. No story here, just liberal propaganda, go home folks. And for all the morons that don't know, WV is a Democrap run State. Only the very poor or uneducated vote for Democraps.
mayb447 4 years ago
QFT.... its bad that ther ruining the mountains but i meen it has to be done :/
no point in whining about it . . . .
V1adimirr 4 years ago
WV was bought by the Republicans. Don Blankenship spent $6 million to get his cronies in office, and they kept up their end of the bargain by passing a rule change to the Clean Water Act which redefined "waste." now toxic heavy metals such as mercury, copper, arsenic, lead and selenium are dumped into your fresh water by the tons. the Bush administration did that for you. keep voting Republican; your children will thank you for their cancer.
gingerpartington 4 years ago
Thank you for the update on how we're being politically fucked by the republicans who only care about money and not our future.
soundism 4 years ago
I live in WV and don't know where you get your info but the deomocrats run this state
Please name me one republican other than Shelly Moore Capito. Joe Manchin is our govenor and he is a Democrat from Big Money.
jerdew 4 years ago
please, stop being an areseface -_-........
parsonater 4 years ago
The land gets reclaimed and is in better shape than it was before. I seen land before they stip mined it .
Old refrigerators and tires and junk. Once they get done it is great habitat for wildlife.
jerdew 4 years ago
oops
parsonater 4 years ago
no point of fearing to end up in hell if we create it for us in this life.
polartoad 4 years ago
Q - Is the regrowth strong enough to prevent mudslides from heavy rains?
OMM06 4 years ago
"It was a mountain at one time, covered in thick forest, been raped now" AS THEY SHOW THE DEER! Man, not to mention all of the growth that has restarted in areas.
Valley fills are a non-existent practice anymore or did you forget to mention that?
blindingillusion 4 years ago
There are deer in my suburb near Columbia, SC. I see Publix parking lot. Just because there are deer doesn't mean much.
TKDWolf 4 years ago
I would be interested to know the energy source used to produce these videos.
Hydroseeding is a mix of grass seed, starting fertilizers, mulch (cellulose fibers).
If you want to see how fast land is reclaimed after an intense mining operation; the copper country in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan are covered with beautiful forests, grasses and inhabited by deer, moose, wolves and a plethora of other wildlife...from just 100 years ago or less.
frankybob9414 4 years ago
Ultimately it is up to each of us to "get back to the garden".
We must simplify our lives to a local village level and make do with simple things to stir the heart. Give up this idea "material things make me happy" mentality. Stop going to malls for your few real needs. Yes.
Buy shoes from a local shoe maker. Buy milk from a local dairy farmer. When the demand for energy decreases the rape of the land for the energy will decrease.
mallikadasi 4 years ago
If only you could get people to do that. Sigh.
If I could keep my music I'd be fine with living like that haha.
TKDWolf 4 years ago
Thanks for this important report - makes me wonder if that exec - Chris Hamilton - isn't fucking retarded by his own greed - I feel sorry for his kids - but more sorry for the honest people he's exploiting and their children. Thanks for allowing me to express my indignation - win-win reconfiguration my ass.
elenia9 4 years ago
Take, take, take.... thats all these people are doing and its a shame that some of you people think that this is totally normal.
theSpitzer 4 years ago
The environment does have an amazing ability to heal itself...over millions of years. The good news is that humans will die as a result of their own environmental destruction and then the earth really will have a chance to heal.
rrrconserve 4 years ago 4
Well, maybe they can change the state slogan to "West Virginia: Wild and Plunderable"
part2play 4 years ago
can you just d othe underground mining to get the coal and save the moutains's coal companys don't give a shit bout the mountains they just care about the profits
dieselman1988 4 years ago
Boone County??? Hey! I'm in Williamson in Mingo Co.
pilotwes247 4 years ago
this is bad and another bad trip with our current leadership in our goverment democrate or republican its all the same party. Theives let vote another one in people! Absolute power absolute corruption
ez2u 4 years ago
Hey Buddy - Born in Williamson 1951. Live in Chicago now.
lan262 4 years ago
The mining industry, like the oil industry, is lead by some of the most pathetic scum mankind has to offer. These people should be KILLED before they kill the rest of us. Everything that comes out of these people's mouths is a lie bent toward preserving the insane profits they are seeing from this destructive process. The areas they have destroyed will be devoid of wildlife for hundreds of years in the future. Thanks George Bush. Thanks capitalism.
OrcusGhole 4 years ago
it isnt those peoples problems, its their job, they are just trying to make it, its the government. They just want theirs, and dont think about the future at all.
thenewcoolkids 4 years ago
Comments like this that call for the death of the individuals diminish the important message here and turn people off to what's most important...finding an economical and environmentally friendly form of energy supply. It's also not all Bush's fault either. This form of mining (a type of strip mining) has been used for decades.
cerclamandate 4 years ago
You're very naive. But, this really isn't the forum for this type of debate, so I'll just not post on youtube again.
OrcusGhole 4 years ago
capitalism is what makes youtube work...just thought you should know
stematwork 4 years ago
Yes thank you I'm not an idiot.
OrcusGhole 4 years ago
fuck the plant, i'd rather be six fett buried in a womb full ov scabs
AcaciaFlames 4 years ago
did anyone else hear a woman crying around the 1:00 minute mark?
ddut887 4 years ago
yup i heard it...
kreeepeee 4 years ago
the coal guy is lying, his face is bright red and hes smiling sort ov
AcaciaFlames 4 years ago
I'm greatfull that there are people that are out there doing things about this problem. what is going to happen to our planet if nobody cares?
zspinach 4 years ago
im gonna assasinate the guy in charge of this fuckin pointless destruction of what god gave to us on earth
osiriszero8769 4 years ago
good plan
pennilesscripple 4 years ago
U american ppl are maybe the most aware of earth issues, dont let ur country become a wasteland.
gn6 4 years ago
I'm sure all of you making these comments about how horrible this is have made a point to stop using electricity.
ya....
prk166 4 years ago 2
You keep forgetting you want to eat the steak,but don't want to see the cow shot. Now,if you stop mountain top removal,you wil stop a cheaper way to make electricity.That little thing that you use to power your camera to make the worthless propaganda in this video.Just remember the man who has pastured well above 100 head of cattle on reclaimed land that was mountaintop mined when you reach into the supermarket's meat cooler next time.
Banjergreg 4 years ago
Well, that's not entirely true! Off course most ways to generate electricity are very environmentally unfriendly, but it shouldn't have to be like this!!
They should choose the lesser of two evils, which, I think, in this case, should be mining without taking the tops of mountains off, but just digging, I guess!!
bramcorleone 4 years ago
The biggest problem about this is everyone who is planning all this shit are a bunch of old guys who future in this state they wont see, but hows it going to effect people my age?? They dont give a shit,
Seth38101 4 years ago 2
Oh God...not the mountains...
There has to be a way to generate energy with more earth-friendly ways.
floridaredhead 4 years ago 3
Sure there are ways - it's wind power, solar power, water power. Clean and environmentally friendly. Big problem is, there's no money to be made once it's set up. It's all about a small handful of people making gobs of money on this and crapping on their grandchildren in the process. Native Americans have a saying - that whatever you do on this earth will affect the next 7 generations. But these suits, they're all about the here and now. Screw the rest of us.
finch6789 4 years ago 5
okay so let's work on other energy sources, but more importantly let's stop using so much energy in the first place. the bulk of energy is used by industry for totally non-essential production. we don't need any more crap in our already overflowing-with-crap lives. what we need is clean water, clean air, thriving ecosystems...what a concept....
pennilesscripple 4 years ago
i'm afraid this guy's dry wit will be lost on the majority of youtubers, and they'll take what he says on face value....
pennilesscripple 4 years ago
scripple: I'm afraid you are correct. I think most people who watch youtube will not catch the sarcasm in the last statement on this video.
But I sure got it. Make no mistake.
floridaredhead 4 years ago 2
You GUYS KNOW THAT WHEN THEY FINISH STRIP MINING, THEY REPLANT ALL THE TREES AND PUT BACK ALL THE DIRT THAT THEY MOVE. THEY HAVE TO, ITS STATE LAW
FairyMomma 4 years ago
They can't put back the bio diversity, the old growth, the ecosystem of what they distroyed.
bluemahajer 4 years ago
mesolithic forests take 10000 years to evolve. when they are gone, they are gone. you can't 'replant' a mesolithic forest. which side are you on? it amazes me how many people defend the crooks who are destroying our planet. they've trained you well.
pennilesscripple 4 years ago 2
your absolutely right!!! im sure glad that they demonstrated EXACTLTY what you're refering to in the ending of this video...dumb fuckin' hill-billy.
geragna 4 years ago
This brings to mind a childhood story of Mr. McMillen's mountain. (I'm not sure if that's the right name.) Anyway, he and his wife wanted the mountain moved, and then realized all the things the mountain was good for. Sadly, our world will not turn out like the story. He had the mountain rebuilt and lived happyily ever after....
skankytater 4 years ago
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rascalrascal 4 years ago
well im from VA and considering how close WV is to me i dont see state lines but i do travel to WV often for the beautiful untouched mountains and rivers that you can't find anywhere else and slowly you do see mountain top removal coal mines each time you go so keep on fighting alternative fuels like wind power and ethanol fuel.would you rather dam the valleys for hydro power?at least you could run some 2 cycle jetskis and fuck up the environment somemore all the while "enjoying the outdoors"!
ahanger 4 years ago 2
To noolaxboola- West Virginia and Virginia are different states and have been ever since 1863.
frenchhorn9 4 years ago
How the hell do you rebuild a mountain? Mountains are suppose to be natural not man made. I was born in Chicago but my family are all from WV. My dad said that when he went home for a visit that he didn't recognize the place. He thought that he was in the wrong state because the mountains that he remembered were gone.
Jerks!
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ChgoChef 4 years ago 2