@sweetpotato280 When a person takes action on any website and sends a message to a government agency like US Wildlife Services or EPA, the agency may post it. It’s in every activist website policy, just as it is in NRDC’s. Our online activists have helped save millions of acres of the planet’s last wildlands and stopped polluters from endangering Americans. We trust that this won’t dissuade activists from having the courage of their convictions and taking action to protect the environment.
Mountaintop removal generates huge amounts of waste. While the solid waste becomes valley fills, liquid waste is stored in massive, dangerous coal slurry impoundments, often built in the headwaters of a watershed. The slurry is a witch’s brew of water used to wash the coal for market, carcinogenic chemicals used in the washing process and coal fines (small particles) laden with all the compounds found in coal, including toxic heavy metals such as arsenic and mercury.
Mountaintop removal generates huge amounts of waste. While the solid waste becomes valley fills, liquid waste is stored in massive, dangerous coal slurry impoundments, often built in the headwaters of a watershed. The slurry is a witch’s brew of water used to wash the coal for market, carcinogenic chemicals used in the washing process and coal fines (small particles) laden with all the compounds found in coal, including toxic heavy metals such as arsenic and mercury.
Traditional mining communities disappear as jobs diminish and residents are driven away by dust, blasting and increased flooding and dangers from overloaded coal trucks careening down small, windy mountain roads. Mining companies buy many of the homes and tear them down. Dynamite is cheaper than people, so mountaintop removal mining does not create many new jobs.
5. Coal companies are supposed to reclaim land, but all too often mine sites are left stripped and bare. Even where attempts to replant vegetation have been made, the mountain is never again returned to its healthy state.
A small crew can tear apart a mountain in less than a year, working night and day. Coal companies make big profits at the expense of us all. 4. Giant machines then scoop out the layers of coal, dumping millions of tons of “overburden” – the former mountaintops – into the narrow adjacent valleys, thereby creating valley fills. Coal companies have forever buried over 1,200 miles of biologically crucial Appalachian headwaters streams
“Fly rock,” more aptly named fly boulder, can rain off mountains, endangering resident’s lives and homes. 2. Huge Shovels dig into the soil and trucks haul it away or push it into adjacent valleys. 3. A dragline digs into the rock to expose the coal. These machines can weigh up to 8 million pounds with a base as big as a gymnasium and as tall as a 20-story building. These machines allow coal companies to hire fewer workers.
1. Forests are clear-cut; often scraping away topsoil, lumber, understory herbs such as ginseng and goldenseal, and all other forms of life that do not move out of the way quickly enough. Wildlife habitat is destroyed and vegetation loss often leads to floods and landslides. Next, explosives up to 100 times as strong as ones that tore open the Oklahoma City Federal building blast up to 800 feet off mountaintops. Explosions can cause damage to home foundations and wells.
Mountaintop removal / valley fill coal mining (MTR) has been called strip mining on steroids. One author says the process should be more accurately named: mountain range removal. Mountaintop removal /valley fill mining annihilates ecosystems, transforming some of the most biologically diverse temperate forests in the world into biologically barren moonscapes.
What a great take on environmentalism; it extends past to environment. You can't fix it unless you fix other things that are causing nature's problems.
Dave you are a breath of fresh air. A voice that speaks to important issues and does a lot to promote and preserve natural habitats. Mother Earth and I thank you Dave for being you.
@bigfunwv I fail to understand the whole "no one can understand this but me" attitude. He seems to know quite a lot about the subjects on which he speaks. Do you think that only WVians can understand?
@dldgiraffe Anyone can understand if BOTH SIDES of the issue are addressed. Not all WVians are coal miners. Being one does give me a certain understanding of the subject. Do you really think "we know that we pollute our own drinking water and poison our children for profit" as he states? Or is it Hype? Is it "aggressive, ambitious destruction of our landscape" or simply making unusable terrain suitable for development. Why does he not want development in WV? Do you understand this?
Thanks Dave from all of us at Mountain Justice!! Please keep speaking out - Virginia's mountains are getting blown apart in Wise County, plus Kentucky and West Virginia. Mountaintop removal is a crime of epic proportions.
Does he not understand his hero, BHO SIGNED the legislation to continue this??? I embrace many of Dave's issues but he backed the wrong horse to further his causes. Sadly so.
@Rkymtnmary I really feel like he backed Obama because he knew it would show the rest of the world that America as a people want to change our government not because he holds out a lot of Hope for politics in general.
Hell don't drink the water is a blatant condemnation of the American Government.
@luckyhubbie Thanks for your thoughtful reply. Let me say right off, I was no fan of Bush by ANY stretch of imagination - but I think folks were so desperate for change that they grasped onto anything remotely promising that. Unfortunately, most didn't do their research and now, what they have is a prez who has been Bush 3 and suffering from buyer's remorse. Furthermore, we had NO good candidates at the time , adding to the mess. I hope DM comes to terms with the way ALL of us were scammed.
@luckyhubbie Hi. With all due respect, if "Don't Drink the Water" is about the United States government, it's about its historical colonization. The song is not about the current state of affairs. It's about the past colonization of native peoples. In the US or South Africa? I would imagine so. Take it easy , luckyhubbie!
@headstock48 I'm not sure cause I don't know the man but he wrote the song in NY and he sang the song first at the Obama Rally in Richmond sometime she sings "this land is your land" in the middle of the song. I would agree that the song is about the native Americans and the British but he continues to tell his fans "don't drink the water here."
I just feel Dave knows that the government...any government doesn't always have the best interest of its people at heart. Look at why he moved here.
@luckyhubbie It's definitely true that governments don't always have the best interest of the people at heart. When you say "look why he moved here" do you mean from South Africa?
He's an interesting guy, no doubt about it. I love when he sings "This Land is Your Land" in the middle of the song. It's cool. Take care.
how inspiring
aerosmithjams43 1 month ago
@sweetpotato280 When a person takes action on any website and sends a message to a government agency like US Wildlife Services or EPA, the agency may post it. It’s in every activist website policy, just as it is in NRDC’s. Our online activists have helped save millions of acres of the planet’s last wildlands and stopped polluters from endangering Americans. We trust that this won’t dissuade activists from having the courage of their convictions and taking action to protect the environment.
NRDCflix 2 months ago
hes not hi, his head is just filled with music
dmansk1 3 months ago
Well said Dave......
somedevilswarehouse 3 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
It is a a gibson custom J45
gwhuckaby71 6 months ago
but I love him and the message
hack2060 6 months ago
he so high
hack2060 6 months ago
@hack2060 I doubt he's high. His nerves make him tend to ramble. It's been that way for years. He's a crappy public speaker
Roose63 3 months ago
Massey are criminals pure and simple and the CEO is the head of that criminal organization.
They don't only need to be stopped they need to be placed under arrest.
Thejbirdy 6 months ago
what kind of guitar is that
mavfan1994 7 months ago
@mavfan1994 Looks like a gibson custom J45
justinlantrip 6 months ago
Love Dave Matthews.
headstock48 9 months ago
me cae muuyyy bien..
tomirock79 10 months ago
@tomirock79 yo también!!!!! es muy buena onda el!!!!!
Marcus201180 9 months ago
Mountaintop removal generates huge amounts of waste. While the solid waste becomes valley fills, liquid waste is stored in massive, dangerous coal slurry impoundments, often built in the headwaters of a watershed. The slurry is a witch’s brew of water used to wash the coal for market, carcinogenic chemicals used in the washing process and coal fines (small particles) laden with all the compounds found in coal, including toxic heavy metals such as arsenic and mercury.
bennyspider1 11 months ago 2
@bennyspider1 and?
Marcus201180 9 months ago
Mountaintop removal generates huge amounts of waste. While the solid waste becomes valley fills, liquid waste is stored in massive, dangerous coal slurry impoundments, often built in the headwaters of a watershed. The slurry is a witch’s brew of water used to wash the coal for market, carcinogenic chemicals used in the washing process and coal fines (small particles) laden with all the compounds found in coal, including toxic heavy metals such as arsenic and mercury.
bennyspider1 11 months ago
Traditional mining communities disappear as jobs diminish and residents are driven away by dust, blasting and increased flooding and dangers from overloaded coal trucks careening down small, windy mountain roads. Mining companies buy many of the homes and tear them down. Dynamite is cheaper than people, so mountaintop removal mining does not create many new jobs.
bennyspider1 11 months ago
5. Coal companies are supposed to reclaim land, but all too often mine sites are left stripped and bare. Even where attempts to replant vegetation have been made, the mountain is never again returned to its healthy state.
bennyspider1 11 months ago
A small crew can tear apart a mountain in less than a year, working night and day. Coal companies make big profits at the expense of us all. 4. Giant machines then scoop out the layers of coal, dumping millions of tons of “overburden” – the former mountaintops – into the narrow adjacent valleys, thereby creating valley fills. Coal companies have forever buried over 1,200 miles of biologically crucial Appalachian headwaters streams
bennyspider1 11 months ago
“Fly rock,” more aptly named fly boulder, can rain off mountains, endangering resident’s lives and homes. 2. Huge Shovels dig into the soil and trucks haul it away or push it into adjacent valleys. 3. A dragline digs into the rock to expose the coal. These machines can weigh up to 8 million pounds with a base as big as a gymnasium and as tall as a 20-story building. These machines allow coal companies to hire fewer workers.
bennyspider1 11 months ago
Steps and Effects
1. Forests are clear-cut; often scraping away topsoil, lumber, understory herbs such as ginseng and goldenseal, and all other forms of life that do not move out of the way quickly enough. Wildlife habitat is destroyed and vegetation loss often leads to floods and landslides. Next, explosives up to 100 times as strong as ones that tore open the Oklahoma City Federal building blast up to 800 feet off mountaintops. Explosions can cause damage to home foundations and wells.
bennyspider1 11 months ago
*****What Is Mountaintop Removal*****
Mountaintop removal / valley fill coal mining (MTR) has been called strip mining on steroids. One author says the process should be more accurately named: mountain range removal. Mountaintop removal /valley fill mining annihilates ecosystems, transforming some of the most biologically diverse temperate forests in the world into biologically barren moonscapes.
bennyspider1 11 months ago
Love your music, hate your views, you're still top on my list to see live!
bodaggin 1 year ago
What a great take on environmentalism; it extends past to environment. You can't fix it unless you fix other things that are causing nature's problems.
a1Drummer07 1 year ago
Dave you are a breath of fresh air. A voice that speaks to important issues and does a lot to promote and preserve natural habitats. Mother Earth and I thank you Dave for being you.
filmtress 1 year ago
Thanks NRDC!
Thanks Dave Matthews!
This destruction is PERMANENT.
STOP IT NOW!
google mountaintop removal and get involved.
patginsd 1 year ago
Amen, Dave!
dldgiraffe 1 year ago
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Hollywood types that spread their ignorance on subjucts they know nothing about. Dave Mathews can SUCK IT!!!
bigfunwv 1 year ago
@bigfunwv I fail to understand the whole "no one can understand this but me" attitude. He seems to know quite a lot about the subjects on which he speaks. Do you think that only WVians can understand?
dldgiraffe 1 year ago
@dldgiraffe Anyone can understand if BOTH SIDES of the issue are addressed. Not all WVians are coal miners. Being one does give me a certain understanding of the subject. Do you really think "we know that we pollute our own drinking water and poison our children for profit" as he states? Or is it Hype? Is it "aggressive, ambitious destruction of our landscape" or simply making unusable terrain suitable for development. Why does he not want development in WV? Do you understand this?
bigfunwv 1 year ago
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YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE. YOU ARE AN IDIOT. JUST SHUT YOUR MOUTH AND PLAY MUSIC.
cmooney888 1 year ago
Thanks Dave from all of us at Mountain Justice!! Please keep speaking out - Virginia's mountains are getting blown apart in Wise County, plus Kentucky and West Virginia. Mountaintop removal is a crime of epic proportions.
mountainjustice 1 year ago
Thank you NRDC, MSM, Thank you Dave Matthews! I live directly beneath a Massey mtr site, they're killing us and they know it.
Bo Webb
alexcaulfield 1 year ago
I think that Dave should write a song about what is going on down here?
Please write one Dave!!!!
bennyspider1 1 year ago
Awesome interview I love to Dave talking about this issue. And he gets what is going down here!!
Thanks Dave
bennyspider1 1 year ago
so many interviews he holds a guitar and never plays it, gets my hopes too far up
Testes1717 1 year ago
@Testes1717 He's married to it.
headstock48 1 year ago
Does he not understand his hero, BHO SIGNED the legislation to continue this??? I embrace many of Dave's issues but he backed the wrong horse to further his causes. Sadly so.
Rkymtnmary 1 year ago
@Rkymtnmary I really feel like he backed Obama because he knew it would show the rest of the world that America as a people want to change our government not because he holds out a lot of Hope for politics in general.
Hell don't drink the water is a blatant condemnation of the American Government.
Dave dosn't need Obama it's the other way around.
luckyhubbie 1 year ago
@luckyhubbie Thanks for your thoughtful reply. Let me say right off, I was no fan of Bush by ANY stretch of imagination - but I think folks were so desperate for change that they grasped onto anything remotely promising that. Unfortunately, most didn't do their research and now, what they have is a prez who has been Bush 3 and suffering from buyer's remorse. Furthermore, we had NO good candidates at the time , adding to the mess. I hope DM comes to terms with the way ALL of us were scammed.
Rkymtnmary 1 year ago
@luckyhubbie Hi. With all due respect, if "Don't Drink the Water" is about the United States government, it's about its historical colonization. The song is not about the current state of affairs. It's about the past colonization of native peoples. In the US or South Africa? I would imagine so. Take it easy , luckyhubbie!
headstock48 1 year ago
@headstock48 I'm not sure cause I don't know the man but he wrote the song in NY and he sang the song first at the Obama Rally in Richmond sometime she sings "this land is your land" in the middle of the song. I would agree that the song is about the native Americans and the British but he continues to tell his fans "don't drink the water here."
I just feel Dave knows that the government...any government doesn't always have the best interest of its people at heart. Look at why he moved here.
luckyhubbie 1 year ago
@luckyhubbie It's definitely true that governments don't always have the best interest of the people at heart. When you say "look why he moved here" do you mean from South Africa?
He's an interesting guy, no doubt about it. I love when he sings "This Land is Your Land" in the middle of the song. It's cool. Take care.
headstock48 1 year ago
thanksssss
PrisonRomyBreak 1 year ago