Mountain Top Removal protest

Darryl Hannah and others are arrested outside a Massey Energy mine in Raleigh County W.Va. Distributed by Tubemogul.

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• Top
• Removal
• Darryl
• Hannah

[winmagnum]

It's unfortunate that the debate over this issue has turned into a name calling contest. The fact is that MTR is incredibly destructive, and once the coal is gone, and the mountains are gone, there is very little left. I work in the field of forestry, and that area would be better served to productively manage a renewable natural resource like trees for a source of income. Trees grow back and the whole landform is not destroyed by cutting them. That doesn't make me a tree hugger.

[winmagnum]

I can show you a lot of places that have been strip mined in Indiana where I live, and the best thing they have growing on them after 20 years is black locust and stunted hardwoods < 10 feet tall. That soil is so compacted, it can't grow much but brush. It is a shame that reclamation results in the semi-moonscape that it does. You may not agree with me, but it is true.

[originaLkomatoast]

@BlueMoonHillbilly

"turn your electricity off"

Good point but I doubt they could go a day without it unless forced to due to an outage.

I've never lived without indoor plumbing or electric but in my youth visited relatives that did. No TV, radio, lights, fridge, or phone, just a water well and an outhouse.

It was a very peaceful quiet place, darker than pitch at night with 1,000's of stars in the black sky, the only sounds were from the wildlife. It was amazingly different from city life.

[BlueMoonHillbilly]

How bout all you people that are against MTR turn your electricity off. Maybe then youll have a different outlook on coal and the people who mine it that try their hardest to work everyday just to provide for their families instead of laying around at the house on well fare. Im a friend of MTR and a friend of coal!

[free2drm]

I live in E. KY and am tired of the land being destroyed. Do we have to destroy everything we touch? I am a conservative, Right-winger Republican. I have never even voted for a Democrat. I can't stand most lefties but they are right on this. If the coal cannot be taken without raping the land, it doesn't need to be done. I do not care how many trees you plant after the strip-mining, it is NEVER the same. The environment is never the same. It is wrong

[Vincezilla]

@BHSdude91 I live in Harlan county KY and the reclamation done by Massey, Nally & Hamilton, A & G is all half assed at best there are few sites that have more weeds and brush than others but the majority is slain trees, mud, sludge, and gravel, you can't even grow weed up there. I don't hate coal miners or strip miners because I was fed and brought up on coal money but they could do a lot better job at reclamation.

[WOWITsTRAINZ1995]

@mountainmink Again i say Coal Keeps our lights on its our life its our power . Why dont u think Coal is Keeping ur power on too long enough for u to type a damn message about what u think is so bad about it

[mountainmink]

@WOWITsTRAINZ1995 It's time to end mountaintop removal. Coal is inefficient, destructive, and the coal commpanies are tyrants that are halting progression and bringing poverty. They destroy more than they will ever create.

[WOWITsTRAINZ1995]

Coal. Keep's Our Fucking lights on u complete dumbass's

[winmagnum]

@BHSdude91 Are you for real, or just trying to rile people up? I have stood on "reclaimed" land numerous times in numerous places, and it grows fescue, lespedeza, and locust, and that is about it. The productivity of these sites is decimated, and when one sees the gray subsoil, shale, and rocks sticking up everywhere there used to be topsoil, even an idiot can figure out it has been ruined.

[BHSdude91]

@winmagnum That's pure bullshit. We have reclaimed here in West Virginia and Kentucky, and it is beautiful.

[wheezdumb]

@winmagnum It would be nice if our WV valley fills and half mountain won't even grow brush or stunted hardwoods. There is NO topsoil. I am sorry for us all.

[kandice4]

go home treeeeeeeeeee huuggers or gay people. moutian top removal helped alot of people AND COAL HELPS WV & KY NOT KEEP IT POOR.....................

[InnocentNeverLast]

We're destroying our home and the LIVES of countless animals. IT'S CALLED MURDER.

[mawleyanne]

I AM home, and I refuse to stand by while coal companies blow away the beauty and heritage of our state. We are the mountain state, NOT the extraction state.

[eastwood203]

A Christian, as I understand it, would attack an idea and not the person. We can disagree about MTR (I'm against it) but let's keep it at the level of debate. -- A Fellow Christian

[11manfromusa]

save a coal miner and shot a fucking tree hugger

[treehuggersnightmare]

You claim to be a Christian? You are worshipping the creation and not the Creator... I am a Christian... and very proud of it...

[treehuggersnightmare]

prove it....

[treehuggersnightmare]

Richard Collier.... you my friend are an idiot.... "made of dirt.... a little leaky" Show proof... I can get on camera and say I'm a millionaire.... not true but I can still say it... get educated... know what you are talking about before getting on camera and making a fool of yourself

[treehuggersnightmare]

I can show you places that have been mined... reclaimed.. trees planted... and if you didn't know it was an old mining site.. you could not tell the difference... please don't be like the extremely intelligent ashley judd... she actually said that our hardwood forest are irreplacable

[didodude1975]

zappaman needs zapped, cause honestly your a peice of crap, those coal miners for massey arent ruinning the forests or whatever, there just trying to put a dinner on the table for there familys, unlike you tree huggers who have garden food everynight for dinner

[zappamannn]

DildoDude...

Most people against are not on welfare. Many are doctors, scientists and professionals.

But since you have no real argument you'll probably use this one over and over.

[didodude1975]

whats the welfare rate where you live?????? you tree hugger

[zappamannn]

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