A Harlan County Fishpond

Elmer Lloyd, a proud former coal miner, struggles to come to terms with his prize fishpond becoming a polluted acid pond at the hands of a coal company.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Kentucky
• Harlan
• County
• fish
• fishpond
• water
• coal
• mine
• surface
• mining
• mountaintop
• removal

[damargirl12]

well my dad works for the coal company mentioned and was also one of the people who worked for hours to try to save the fish. Both sides of the story are not mentioned here!

[letvols1]

my dad and i used to sell work clothes to coal miners from pineville to harlan to pikeville! i love kentucky! god bless the coal miners!

[APBTisBeast]

@damargirl12 there is no other side to the story the strip mines ruined his pond...... so they should be liable to fix the damages hell they make plenty of money why not fix the damn pond it isn't that damn expensive hell they have the equipment and soil to fix it there selves so just do it already or have they by now?

[cheapassassin]

Coal mining at the expense of human habitat is atrocious. Fuck your ipod, if you can't fish you'll die you retards.

[JNUTSAX]

@countryboy21575 buddy i gotta agree with you %100 without coal that dumb ass wuld still be settin in the corner jerkin his cock to pass the time instead of watchin tv or listening to music on his ipod that coal helps for him to be able to charge...fuckin idiot

[bubbles48ful]

Coal miners are good people who do good work, but if Kentucky wants more jobs & a better economy it should stop coal and diversify - bring in new industry, encourage small business, etc. KY is suffering from the 'resource curse' - look it up on wikipedia

[bubbles48ful]

@wturner0018 Kentucky may have the a low per/hr electric cost, but that's not a meaningful statistic when you take into account how low the average income is in KY. As a percentage on income, Kentuckians are paying much more for their power than most americans are.

[wturner0018]

@playthegame57 Kentucky actually has the 3rd lowest electric cost per kw hour due to the use of coal.

[wturner0018]

One fish pond < jobs in hard economic times

[countryboy21575]

game57.lol you got it all wrong its your sister that im playing with and she loves it and last night she told me that your mom wanted to play to and i told her that your mom couldnt handle a real countryboy......best thing for you to do is sit in your room at the rest home and enjoy the electric that coal is providing to keep your old smelly ass cool.remember coal keeps the lights on!!!!!!!!!!!!!