Senior Citizens March Against Mountain Top Removal

Day 1 of a 5 day march covering 25 miles from Charleston, WV to it's end in civil disobedience actions at the front gates of Massey Energy owned, Mammoth Coal in Cedar Grove, WV.

There will be an update video each day of the March.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• MTR
• Mountain
• Top
• Removal
• Senior
• Citizens
• WV
• Massey
• Energy
• Clean
• Coal
• Alternative
• Christians

[DCEEEWPERRY]

coal feeds my family and many others you just dont know

[FluxRostrum]

you stubbornness is creating Chinese Jobs ... Thanks alot.

ourfuture . org / blog-entry / 2009114502 / offshoring-wind-energy

[seamoremonster]

Good on these people. This is beautiful stuff Flux. Thank you. These are decent caring people. Coal Companies have ripped off the environment and these poor folks for centuries.

[scaryterry24]

@FluxRostrum You and your people are wrong and yall need to wake the hell up ass holes

[wturner0018]

@seamoremonster Coal doesn't mess up the environment. There is no connection between man made co2 output and climate get over it. I haven't said anything about clean coal technology I think its clean enough. I am pro nuclear power plants and anything that will keep energy costs down. If we could produce wind or solar panels and reach a respectable $/kwhour without government tax cuts I would be on board...

[seamoremonster]

@wturner0018 I have a job and it sure as hell isn't one that fucks up the environment. I know. i know. Climate Change is a hoax....and the earth is flat. Find a respectable profession. Clean Coal? Now that's a hoax. And tell the people in the South Pacific..the Queensland Floods...Maldives...the Cook Islanders theres no such thing or tell the people in Brazil...that it's a hoax. Use it? We have an abundance of uranium too why don't we blow up the world? Nah...don't put yourself out.

[wturner0018]

@seamoremonster Woa man I am a Mining Engineering student at the University of Kentucky and work in coal mines in the summers to pay for school. Uneducated is not the right term just because you disagree with me. Coal is here we should use it. You should get a job.

[seamoremonster]

@wturner0018 Deadbeats? What are you dumbshits going to do when Massey totally fucks your backyard...leaves you with a shitheap of waste and moves their operations to Mexico...New Zealand or some other country? You think they give a shit about poor bastards like you. You call me a deadbeat you dumb assed uneducated knuckle dragging dip sucking hick?

[wturner0018]

@seamoremonster When did I say anything about Don Blankenship? He retired its over what are you deadbeats gonna do when you kill Massey out thats all these videos are anyways a personal attack against one company. Accidents happen and if you knew anything about mining you would know that. I work for Massey its a good company with good benefits you should work sometime...

[seamoremonster]

@wturner0018 You support Don Blakenship who claimed the unions were wrong and that Massey ran safe mining practises? He was caught out with the mining disaster in West Virginia last year that left 25 dead. Tragic that people are easily hoodwinked. Massey had done little for working folks other than hand them out a subsistence existence while Blakenship and other bigwigs reap millions. It's a shame the majority here isn't better informed.

[wturner0018]

@seamoremonster

This is not how people in Appalachia feel just a small minority.

[IBMeddling]

I don't understand why people care that the land is being destroyed...I just don't get it. (That was sarcasm)