Toxic West Virginia: Mountaintop Removal- Episode 1

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FOR MORE OF TOXIC WEST VIRGINIA VISIT: http://www.vbs.tv/player.php?bccl=NDEzMjk4MjU0X19ORVdT= Meredith Danluck is a New York artist, director, and all-around amazing person who has a killer collection of power tools. VBS bumped into her a few months ago and discovered that she has been working on a film in West Virginia, a sort of impressionistic account of the current environmental catastrophe in the Appalachian Mountains. Mining companies are destroying entire mountains in order to get at the coal inside them. Quickly and efficiently, the oldest mountain range in the world is being systematically obliterated. We sent Meredith and VBS correspondent Derrick Beckles to the hills and hollers of West Virginia to show us what the end of the world looks like.

Channel: Travel & Events
Uploaded: February 20, 2007 at 3:38 pm
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Length: 0:04:44
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poopsix (Wednesday 20th of August 2008 03:23:20 PM)
Do you all know why they do this? Because the seams of coal are so narrow. Up in Northern West Virginia, they do underground mining. It wasn't an arbitrary decision to wreck the environment, it was seen as the only cost-effective way to get at that coal and get jobs in there. Now, I don't think it's a good idea- it wrecks the environment. But, at least there is reasoning behind it.
wvagurl08 (Saturday 9th of August 2008 10:21:04 PM)
ohh and one more thing...if it wasnt for these men gettin out everyday workin on these MTR jobs then half of you wouldnt have the things you do, these people are hard workers and help keep the modern luxury you know as power around, and all you can do is ridicule them for the way they do it?? are you serious??
JeffFurrowMusic (Thursday 21st of August 2008 02:40:44 PM)
Amen, sister. I work on a strip job, and if it wasn't for coal mines...West Virginia would be a severely poor state. Many families would go hungry.
wvagurl08 (Saturday 9th of August 2008 10:19:12 PM)
Ok you people are acting so retarted...you go around acting like its so bad for us to blow up a couple mountains to keep your freakin power on, and you can go around in your big SUV's and pollute the earth, and what you prob dont know is that when they are done mining in the area they fill it in and plant trees, and what are you doin for the air your polluting??NOTHING thats what!! so as the saying goes..Before you start pointin fingers make sure your hands are clean!
Staatl (Sunday 3rd of August 2008 10:42:38 AM)
George W. Bush really was really horrible concerning his impact on the environment. He even thought or still thinks about permitting mining and stuff in national parks like Yellow Stone. Hillary Clinton would have supported this devastating way of mining tooo, by the way. I think you should end it or that there should be way more regulations concerning the size of strip mines like these. Such ways of mining would not be permitted in Europe, people are more aware of what they will lose.
coalminer24605 (Friday 25th of July 2008 11:40:37 PM)
For one this is not a new way of mining it has been around for many years. Madcow your just proof that some people are educated beyond their intelligence.
coalminer24605 (Friday 25th of July 2008 11:32:09 PM)
your car is made of steel hmm what makes steel? iron ore and coal heating it or the other way is by huge electrodes = ELECTRICITY= heating the iron ore . 50% of our NATIONS ELECTRICITY COMES FROM COAL.
coalminer24605 (Friday 25th of July 2008 11:26:07 PM)
a fraction try over 50% of the nations energy. that isnt a small fraction more like HALF.
coalminer24605 (Friday 25th of July 2008 12:19:20 AM)
You have no clue. So please do yourself a favor and learn more about"CLEAN COAL" before you open the hole under your nose and let the world know how intelligent you are not. Clean coal is a term used for new technology to burn coal and the emissions are kept below that of burning oil. The slurry pond that you are rambling about is from CLEANING COAL so they can ship it.By the way when that mines was Union that pond wasnt a problem, just when it became non-union now it is a problem.
madcowgirl4h (Friday 25th of July 2008 11:48:48 AM)
sweetie, your screenname there shows how intelligent you are not before even reading your message. Please remove broomstick from rectum and calm down.