Stop Mountaintop Removal Mining

[proaudiohd]

We need major investment into aneutronic fusion, so we can safely shut down every coal plant on earth.

[Tyco200]

Well, sadly we will have to learn the hard way... If problems come? Our fault. Now Mountain-Top removing! Jesus Christ!

[TysoniusRex]

You don't like nuclear, but you don't want coal mining from mountaintops either? Good luck ever stopping that.

[dozer3man]

i have lives here 40 years it does nothin but help us r

[sp0ttedp0ny330]

I live in the Appy mtns. in TN. Even after the giant "sludge ponds" broke their banks and destroyed a HUGE area of TN...it STILL goes on...here and in s.w. VA!! Yes for now we need coal as fuel...*sigh* BUT there HAS to be a better way!! Raping the mtns is causing far more problems than people are willing to admit...even when its in their own back yards (literally!!)

Pony

[mountainpbp]

Mountaintop Removal destroys the 2nd most bio-diverse ecosystem on the planet, poisons thousands of miles of headwater streams, and directly effects the health of surrounding communities.

I'd rather see wind turbines than cemeteries full of headstones marked with the names of innocent victims of this poisonous process of mining.

And where is the proof that coal is burned cleanly and efficiently?

Where? It is certainly not in the crippled coal fields of Appalachia.

[MrLespaul10]

@mountainpbp Well when you can show me a job soulution to take the pace of people from the applachias you let me know. Because if coal mining is stopped there will be no geting "just for fun" items any more for little coal towns. It will be a miniature depresion, nothing but the basics to say alive on. So go ahead cut coal, but also get ready to cut some of our economy.

[NAGGERNUTZ]

Global warming is a hoax. Mountaintop mining leaves behind usable land that otherwise would serve nobody. I'd rather see usable land than mountains covered by wind turbines and solar collectors. It's been proven that coal can be burned cleanly and efficiently.

Coal keeps the lights on.

[cardinalcrest]

Coal does keep the lights on. The coal industry also creates many jobs and these jobs have fed generations of people. We also need more farm land. These reclaimed mines provide a usuable place for operations such a beef production. People opposing mining need to visit Eastern Kentucky and some old strip mines. Many of them are beautiful places and you can't even tell they have been mined.

[coalvein]

Global warming is caused by the burning of coal huh? Do a little bit of research. FACT-The earth has a natural warming and cooling cycle that was (and still is) happening long before human beings were created and will continue to do so long after we are all dead and gone.

[momentofsciencetx]

@coalvein No one questions that the earth in the past has gone through warming and cooling stages. The question now is why is it going through a warming stage that is on a rapid time scale never seen before. To compare warming and cooling stages from the past which have taken thousands of years to develope and use that as comparison to a warming stage which is now occuring as evidence for the norm. is irresponsible.

[coalvein]

@momentofsciencetx "rapid time scale never seen before." What exactly are you basing this on? The warming of the earth that brought us out of the last ice age 10,000+ years ago wasn't caused by the burning of coal let alone humans. It is irresponsible to base global warming on temperature recordings of the last 150 years. It is also insufficient information as well. I want to see some facts that human beings are causing global warming by the burning of fossil fuels.

[momentofsciencetx]

@coalvein how long do you think the warming period was that took us out of the last ice age? And as far as facts your not interested in those if you were you would be looking at the science.

[coalvein]

@momentofsciencetx I am interested in facts. However you have shown me none so far. I am not looking at science since science is theories, not facts.

[momentofsciencetx]

Wow you really have no understanding of science do you. You say you are not looking at science since science is theories and not facts. I recommend you go online and look up the definition of a scientific theory. You are an example of what is wrong with the education system in the U.S. You praise the fantasy and ignore the reality.

[Gettinghitonattheban]

@coalvein

ANOTHER FACT:

A single volcano erupting sends more gases that people define as harmful into the atmosphere than almost 100 of human industrialization.

[arandompirate]

This stuff makes me sick. It really does.

[1099951801]

Keep those black diamonds coming!

We'll need coal for many years to come & MTR is the best way to mine for coal on a mtn. I know this hurts the Al Gore worshipers, but get over it,

coal is here to stay whether you like it or not. The theory of global warming is being

blown out of the water as you read this & a theory is all it is except there is no foundation & all the basis for the theory

got flushed down the toilet by emails taken from scientists who knew it was not right to begin with.

[arandompirate]

You are an idiot.

[riverpotato]

Typical corporate tool. Your talking points are irrelevant. This video doesn't even mention global warming. Did you even watch it?

[BabetteBabich]

An awful circumstance and an important video -- but one wonders why the administration is complacent... indeed: why are laws not enforced?

[BabetteBabich]

This is an important video.

[cheesguy3333]

your guyz videoz always make my cry..:((

[cheesguy3333]

This is so sad.....poor little animals....