Larry Gibson at Kayford Mountain

Larry Gibson leads a conservation goup to a family cemetery in the middle of a mountaintop removal mine. Excerpt from the documentary film Mountain Top Removal www.hawriverfilms.com

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[gmayork]

As the daughter of a coal miner, let me say, MTR is not coal mining! It is coal cultivating! And it is just wrong! If you are part of MTR, you are NOT a coal miner!

[MerEarth]

I met Gibson personally, he is truly a remarkable human being. People need to step up and help him bring down King Coal and their cronies and stop mountaintop removal! People like Don Blakenship of Massey Energy should be the ones living near MTR sites, they have no idea what its like.

[57earthchild]

I have much respect for coal miners. They work hard & risk their lives going underground to dig out the coal. No decent person would destroy our Appalachian heritage, our family values, the memories of our loved ones, our precious Appalachian culture...just to get money. MTR does *not* produce jobs; it only takes them away. How much has coal production increased compared to mining jobs? The facts are there if you aren't too bull-headed to look at them. Be honest with yourself.

[beefhide92]

@gmayork your wrong ,my father is a strip miner of 25 years and still going ,i will soon be ,

do us pro coal people a favor and go look outside and tell me were your going to put a wal-mart

that all country people go to ,or an airport for you to fly on vk to, or your kids school . your can put somthing

that freakin big on a hillside , and you made a mistake it's MTD [mountaintop Development]

[snooch45]

GOOD FOR YOU:)

[fatboydwayne]

The abandon mines that are refered to in this video are probably reminants from the late 1800s to very early 1900s and therefore not subject to the regulations of recent years.

[HardTimes304]

GOD BLESS THE COAL AND THE COAL MINERS.

[bapyou]

"When the corporation becomes enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow. And the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed." - Abraham Lincoln

[coal60]

Amen brother!!

[critch157]

LG doesn't have pics of mountains.cause the mountains wasn't much higher then they are right now.The cost would be to great to remove a large hill.Your people never film protesters throwing rocks,swerving vans at coal trucks,throwing the middle finger at someone with a reflective shirt on.that person might be a preacher.But u can march singing a mazing grace.You call us misinformed and uneducated.LG has your head so far up your a hole.yall will realize how many jobs come from one coal mine job.