Video from Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards

Video produced by residents of Wise County, Virginia, who are suffering from the devastating impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining in their communities. Citizens have formed a new group, Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards, to fight the mining and save their communities.

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News & Politics

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• mountain
• top
• mountaintop
• removal
• coal
• mining
• virginia
• appalachia
• global
• warming
• environmental

[shootnbull]

I am very moved watching this video. I strongly oppose the Dominion Coal Fired Power Plant that they are planning on building in Wise County Virginia. I live in Appalachia Va and will be directly affected by the plant. Most people cannot understand why we are opposing the plant. Most think that the area is so desperate for jobs that we would jeopardize our health and our beautiful mountains for jobs.Please go and see how we are living and what they are doing to our area..STOP MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL

[22grg]

Sad that some people will give up their birthtright for a job.What comes after the coal is gone,we're all left with the destructive aftermath.These mountains will be gone forever,and so will the jobs they provided for a short while.Just sad!

[Buckkiller888]

I become disgusted seeing the mountains beauty just taken away due to this crap. Something needs to be done. Oh yes, and another thing, back in the late 60's, my entire family built a small log cabin up in the mountains in the middle of nowhere where we would hunt, fish, and hike and just did what we wished. i went back there 2 years ago and theres a fence in the backyard where someones house is, theres houses everywhere. It's an ugly subdivision now, thanks for ruining part of my life assholes.

[kingsindiandefence]

I just read a great book called Hillbilly Tales from The Smokey Mountains by P Graham and V Humphries! i live in England not the USA, just wanted to share it with folks.

[kdills]

Discraceful behavior. Remember the tv commercial around the 1970's, with the American Indian looking at the forests and beaches littered with garbage, and then you see a tear fall from his eyes? Now that same commerical would show that commercial, only with the American Indian balling his eyes out. Shameful:-(

[DougWardBlammo]

I'm glad I'm not up there anymore.Every time I fire up a power tool or appliance I know I'm not part of causing any harm. I grew up in Va. It didn't look like that back in the day.

Greed and ignorance.

[boodejan]

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel

And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land

Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken

Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County

Down by the Green River where Paradise lay

Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking

Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

John Prine Paradise 1971

[dudehokie]

sad verry sad.

[SaberTanker22]

When where blowing up mountains left and right . we are destorying Eco systems for birds and fish the small streams. mess up i have no problem with mining the coal through Tunnels but not the whole mountain this is a new issue to me.

[Gauleyriver]

Stop raping our moutains and put a stop to moutaintop removal-Massey-you are

to blame and your stupid adds on TV are a waste in this state-stop it now!!!!!!!!!!!!

[procuts69]

my people are from big stone gap,my granpa was a coalminer,eventually died from blacklung,they will ravage the land as fast as they can before more homes move into the area more development= more opposition=more litigation and permitting costs the strategy for this type of corp clusterfuck is to move into the area ,rape it for as much profits as quick as possible,use the locals for cheap labor then when u cant squeeze another cent from it ,abandone it without a reclamation plan,welcome to the

[durruti02]

gotcha i come from a mining family, though i am not. i and most others understand the difficulties of work but what is happening here goes beyond. America is a rich country. It bailed out the banks but tells you the only way you can work is if you destroy the mountains? there are other options.