Blasting on Coal River Mountain, as soon as TODAY!

This four-minute video clip, featuring the voices of local residents Judy Bonds and Gary Anderson, describes in vivid terms the battle to save Coal River Mountain. As Massey Energy Company begins the devastating process of mountaintop removal coal mining, local residents hope to convince decision makers to adopt their plan to build a major wind farm on the ridge instead. Studies have shown this plan would bring more long-term tax revenue to the local economy and safer, permanent jobs while protecting nearby communities from the effects of mountaintop removal. Residents worry that an eight-billion gallon toxic coal sludge dam will rupture when the blasting begins. If the dam broke, the tidal wave of toxic sludge released could endanger thousands and would dwarf the destruction of the December 2008 TVA coal ash disaster. As bulldozing begins to prep part of Coal River Mountain for mountaintop removal, some people are engaged in direct action to forestall it.

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[SereneiBE]

@mellyast You don't need to blow up a mountain to get coal.

We need to stick to underground mining and at the same time advance on renewable energy. Only 5% of the coal comes from "Mountain Top Removal" blasting mountains.

over 8 HUNDRED THOUSAND square miles of beautiful appalachian mountains had been blown and destroyed. It took millions of years to form these mountains, and for what? 5% of coal? polluting waterways? KILLING AND DESTROYING nature?

It took 40 years to cause so mu

[mellyast]

Love the video of all this blasting! Coal being removed from the mountain means I can be online, watch tv, have lights, etc...By the way, i love the lies about non violence. I have witnessed when one of your members pushed a Massey underground coal miner. No words were exchanged, the protester just walked up behind him and shoved him. And if its just because he is a coal miner, I thought you were fighting mountaintop mining not underground.

[Zaphod7835]

"literally killing us"? what's the death toll so far?

God gave us the mointains and trees and uh..... ginseng..... gotcha! Who gave us the coal?

[Zaphod7835]

@WC3POchannel10A Yes! raped! raped by man!!! who is...... uh....... God's creation........... and who may come to harm without the benefits provided by that coal........... QUICKLY!!!! RAPE the earth to protect Gods creation!!!!!!

[TheRealFacts1]

if it wasn't for that coal you rednecks wouldn't even have power to upload this video you illiterate cunts

[CvilleTigers11]

@WC3POchannel10A who gives a hell

[savageboner]

God is in your imagination, grow up kiddo.

[savageboner]

You're calling people out and saying they are "hillbillys" when you don't even know which form of buy to use.  Good game you pathetic troll.

[zakaslam1]

are you kidding me ! the coal farm creates jobs , energy , cash ect . where do you dumb hill billies think you get the money to by food from !

[WC3POchannel10A]

It belongs to God! God's creation is being raped!