YouTube home Comedy Week on YouTube
Upload

The Martin County Coal Slurry Spill

mountainjustice mountainjustice·28 videos
228
21,244
Like     Dislike 3

Sign in to YouTube

Sign in with your Google Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to like mountainjustice's video.

Sign in to YouTube

Sign in with your Google Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to dislike mountainjustice's video.

Sign in to YouTube

Sign in with your Google Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to add mountainjustice's video to your playlist.

Uploaded on Dec 22, 2008

Massey Energy spills 300 million gallons of coal slurry into two mountain streams in Martin County Kentucky - Oct 2000 - the spill was 30 times greater than the Exxon Valdez spill

Loading icon Loading...

Loading icon Loading...

Loading icon Loading...

Loading icon Loading...

Ratings have been disabled for this video.
Rating is available when the video has been rented.
This feature is not available right now. Please try again later.

Uploader Comments (mountainjustice)

  • bigolhillbilly

    The EPA ordered Martin County Coal to remove waste materials that had been discharged; restore the impacted streams and adjacent areas; and offset any temporary or permanent impacts to the environment." Massey Energy has spent over $46 million in cleanup and has begun restoration efforts. Additionally, Massey agreed to pay the State of KY $3.25 million in damages and penalties. The WV Dept. of Env. Protection (DEP) and Div. of Nat. Res.(DNR) settled their suit for $600,000.

    NO RESPONSIBILITY?

    ·

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate bigolhillbilly's comment.

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate bigolhillbilly's comment.
  • mountainjustice

    Massey didnt pay most of that cost, their insurance company did. And if you want to see how good a job they did with the cover-up, I mean clean-up - just take a shovel up Coldwater Creek and turn over the soil.

    Dont waste your time trying to defend Massey. It will be much more fun to hit yourself over the head with a 2 x 4.

    · 3

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate mountainjustice's comment.

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate mountainjustice's comment.
    in reply to bigolhillbilly (Show the comment)
  • bigolhillbilly

    Massey is definately not perfect. They could do alot more environmentally im sure, however to say their insurance paid most of it is laughable. Who pays the premiums and what would that kind of liability insurance cost? The circumstances leading to the failure of this impoundment were unforeseeable as I understand the investigation reports. Unfortunate outcome to unforeseeable circumstances, what a concept, I think that's called an accident unless you're a trial lawyer. Lawyers call it payday!

    ·

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate bigolhillbilly's comment.

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate bigolhillbilly's comment.
    in reply to mountainjustice (Show the comment)
  • mountainjustice

    According to former Mine Safety and Health Academy Director and sludge impoundment expert Jack Spadaro, there was a similar breakthrough at this same impoundment in 1994, and Massey knew that another breakthrough was inevitable. Spadaro said this on "60 Minutes."

    It wasn't an unforeseen accident, it was preventable. Good, well-run companies prevent accidents. Bad companies make huge mistakes and deal with the consequences later by hiring lawyers and PR firms.

    · 2

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate mountainjustice's comment.

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate mountainjustice's comment.
    in reply to bigolhillbilly (Show the comment)

Top Comments

  • David Stanley

    no clean up will occur ever

    as G W Bush signed into law his law that all coal companies can allow all toxic run off of coal operations into rivers

    this is not an accident it is a new way of doing business.

    Americans will not stand up and fight so you will be treated like clowns

    · 7

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate David Stanley's comment.

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate David Stanley's comment.

All Comments (15)

Sign in now to post a comment!
  • SpacesCorners

    those necessities can be achieved through energy means that are NOT going to run out some day, do not damage the environment, and don't shorten/threaten peoples lives. Having a job is great, but at what cost are you making your money? A few decades of comfort and convenience... but when you and I are dead and gone, our children and grandchildren will be living with the broken, dirty, raped world we've left them.

    ·

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate SpacesCorners's comment.

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate SpacesCorners's comment.
    in reply to jchseagle2 (Show the comment)
  • SpacesCorners

    So much for "clean coal", huh. Slurry dams don't seem too clean to me.

    ·

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate SpacesCorners's comment.

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate SpacesCorners's comment.
  • Neweddy24

    Anything else to say in defense of Massey?

    ·

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate Neweddy24's comment.

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate Neweddy24's comment.
    in reply to bigolhillbilly (Show the comment)
  • lilly195

    i cant believe that something like that is allowed to happen, people are loosing their homes because of events like this!

    ·

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate lilly195's comment.

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate lilly195's comment.
  • UKbadneighbor

    Please tell us more - any inside stories about Massey would be interesting and helpful. Thanks

    ·

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate UKbadneighbor's comment.

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate UKbadneighbor's comment.
    in reply to levisnteeshirt (Show the comment)
  • levisnteeshirt

    i worked for a massey company ,,, the salary people live in fright of Don Blankenship ,,, state inspectors should live at Massy projects because they really pushed the envenlope

    ·

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate levisnteeshirt's comment.

    Sign in to YouTube

    Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to rate levisnteeshirt's comment.
  • Loading comment...
Loading...
Loading...
Working...
Sign in to add this to Watch Later