Black Water - Huge Coal spills in Appalachia

Massey Energy has been fined $20 million for hundreds of violations of the Clean Water Act for after spilling coal waste into mountain streams in Kentucky and West Virginia. In Dec 2008, TVA (the Tennessee Valley Authority) coal ash storage mountain at the Kingston Power Plant failed and approximately 1 billion gallons of coal waste went into the Clinch and Emory Rivers, which provide drinking water for Chattanooga and several cities in Alabama.

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• Tennessee
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• Jean Ritchie

[cashox3]

just did a search on the web as i wasnt sure what you were on about, and seems that you guys speak ancient english :) interesting, had no idea, though to most "brung" would seem wrong in straight english -

[mountainjustice]

@cashox3 - We talk ever which way.

There is a scholarly debate about whether Appalachian dialect is indeed related to Elizabethan English. There is less debate on Appalachian music - many Appalachians are of Scottish and Irish descent, so fiddle is one of the dominant insstruments in Bluegrass and mountain music.

[cashox3]

brung ????? what language is that

[mountainjustice]

@cashox3 - Its Appalachian dialect. 

[Crushchin]

This video just brought a certified thug to tears!

[cashox3]

@mountainjustice thanks for the insight mountain. i have heard some of your local music through other videos i watched that same day, and the site i came across the other day was raising the exact debate you refer to. I wanted to paste the link in my comment, but as you surely know, youtube, doesnt allow it. im actually from scottish descent myself, though its a little way off ;)