Comments on: An Outlaw Industry

By: Diana

Diana — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:46:34 +0000

I want to know who dug coal out of my land left from my grandfather in Pike County KY and why everyone but me and my brothers and sisters have gotten letters? Most have settled for hardly anything but highway robbery, I want my land if there’s anything left, I’ve also been told today they the coal company demolished the two homes on my grandfathers land which I wouldn’t loved to keep one of them in our family. Does anyone know who I contact to see how to pursue this in a court of law? I sure think it’s terrible they trepass on our land and just take what they want without the family approving first, so I’m told. I know for a fact me and my six brothers and sisters didn’t get a letter, yet all our cousins have settled but a handfull..please help if you can, how do I get started with deed searching under my grandfather’s land, he had alot, sold some but kept the timber and mineral rights even back then in the 50’s…please help me get justice for our family worked years and very hard in the Kentucky Coal Mines, my father was trapped in one of them years ago…

By: polite

polite — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:31:25 +0000

It is unbelieveable our politicans pass laws for script mining destroying the waters we drink and killing our animals and trees to make several human beings wealthy, it takes the life of our kids grandchildren and great grand children, our society is so corrupt to let this happen our WVA and Virgina and Ky mountains are a sight to the human eye after mountain top removal Will our Politicans stop this, I am a underground coal miner my self we do not destroy other peoples lives by filling rivers and streams and moving soil which trees will never grow back.Please everyone help stop this do not let the script mines mountain top mining destroy our lives and the wildlife and it contributes to global warming, this makes only a few wealthy and we are suffer our kids and familys.

By: polite

polite — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:18:54 +0000

stripping in Ky mountains fills in our rivers and destroy the soil trees will not grow back and causes rivers to flood with streams full of dirt from mountain top removal, causing global warming to fill only few people with wealth.

By: ellen

ellen — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:21:13 +0000

This is yet another tragedy of habitat destruction. How can this be stopped without simply pushing it onto another country? Perhaps there’s a more conscientious way to mine for the coal that is apparently necessary to supply the energy needs of this country until such ideas as wind energy transmission lines from N and S Dakota wind mills to other parts of the nation can be instituted. Articles such as this I hope will at least serve to create more momentum for the far less destructive options for living on earth such as wind, solar, geothermal, small organic farms, sustainable ecological communities perhaps involving greater self reliance to limit cross country cross nation transportation at the same time making use of resource saving microtechnology to stay connected socially with the rest of the world and thereby become models for living with our connectivity in mind rather than living as we do now with so called “productivity” (read:”selfish profit”) in mind.