Comments on: Help the People in this Community Stop the Destruction

By: Tripp

Tripp — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:52:58 +0000

Thanks Ken for your levelheaded response. I am glad to see that I am not the only one that appreciates being warm on cold winter nights thanks to coal. The bottom line? If there was an alternative to coal that could be offered to the public at the same price per kilowatt hour as coal, it would be competing in a fair marketplace with coal. Until such an alternative is available, Coal is king.
Just so you know, I love the mountains too! I own land in the Appalachians as well as in the foothills that is designated not to be developed and will be placed in the land trust. I also am active in river cleanups in WV, VA and NC. But above all I am a realist. The reality is we use and need electricity and right now, coal is the most cost effective source.

By: Glenn Sharpe

Glenn Sharpe — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:09:12 +0000

If you people who think M T R mining is so bad would only stop using that dirty electricity and replace the lost income to the miners families this would be settled next week.

By: Kurt Zwally

Kurt Zwally — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 02:44:45 +0000

I’m sorry my power company sells us power that comes from blowing up your mountains. I feel bad every time I turn on the lights. We try to be as energy efficient as we can and I’ve joined the fight to stop this awful practice.

By: Kathy Johnston

Kathy Johnston — Mon, 18 May 2009 05:08:21 +0000

Please earnestly support S696, HR1310, & HR2169.

Encourage President Obama to undue the damage that has been caused by previous administrations.

Reclaim YOUR American heritage.
Reclaim YOUR mountains.

Join Me —
Kathy A. Johnston,
Tulsa, OK

Thank You.

By: Teresa Hurst Godfrey

Teresa Hurst Godfrey — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:33:18 +0000

I was born and raised in WV which i am very proud to say.
After looking at this website, i am so saddened by it.
I hope and pray this is stopped for the people that
still lives there in WV. There is other ways of mining
coal than mountaintop removal.
This might be minut to some people, but when i go home
to visit my family in WV I love seeing those beautiful mountains and streams that i grew up with especially
in the summertime.

Teresa
North Carolina

By: Connie Barker

Connie Barker — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:34:35 +0000

Houses in southern West Virginia are built very poorly. Most people in West Virginia live in substandard houses most of which were built in the early 1900s. Any movement from a blast and most of these old houses are going to crack. If you want to fight for anything, you should be fighting for better housing for Appalachian people. Mining has been a part of West Virginia lives since the 1800s. My father was a coal miner, my grandfather was killed in a coal mine, and my great-grandfather was a coal miner. Coal mining in southern West Virginia creates jobs. Our people have to have jobs. Most of the people fighting coal mining are from out of state. These people have wonderful jobs and homes. They come here to try to take our husbands and our fathers jobs. Are they going to let us move in with them so that our coal mining families can find jobs? No! If they win their fight, they will leave us alone. They will leave our coal miners on welfare and go back to their lives in other states. Our mountains have been here for centuries. If the land is reclaimed, it is better than when they found it. West Virginia is one of the very few states that when a tree is cut down, another tree grows in its place. The land could reclaim itself if left alone. Fortunately for us, the coal companies are required to reclaim the land and the land is more beautiful after reclaimation.

By: Lena

Lena — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:16:48 +0000

Whoever said, “In wilderness is the preservation of the soul” spoke for one huge part of this struggle. Clean water is a human right. …and unbridled capitalism has also no room for respecting the families or the natural beauty of Appalachia. I am so ashamed to be using electricity from this source. I am thoroughly disgusted by the ongoing “business” (a crime!) of MTR. Power to the People of Appalachia. I am with you all the way. This is a righteous struggle for the preservation of our collective soul.L

By: David Hittinger

David Hittinger — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:45:32 +0000

keep fighting the good fight, try to organize help from environment America and clean water action. good luck saving our natural resources!

By: Anita Parsons

Anita Parsons — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:44:40 +0000

It won’t be long before the mountains around my home will be destroyed. I can walk to the top of the mountain, on my own property, and watch all the mountains around being destroyed. I live in Peytona, WV. Something needs to be done before every mountain is gone!!!!!!!!!

By: Marat Moore

Marat Moore — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:13:28 +0000

I am a former coal miner living in Greenbelt, MD, and am appalled at the wholesale destruction of God’s green mountains to fatten coal operator’s profit margins. Appalachia is a treasure: its culture, people, plants and animals, and all of us from the region in other parts of the country need to stand up and speak up to our elected representatives in Congress, the power companies who (do not) serve us, and to get out the word in this nation’s cities that this is a land grab that is destroying water and human habitat, and worsening global warming.

By: milton aliff

milton aliff — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:02:19 +0000

it is so sad to see in person. and now we can see the lights at night from the the mtr. It makes one want to move because it is so hard to watch and listen to mines destroy everything we grew up with and came back home to. And what is happening to our property values. A very nice brick house in my community finally sold, after seven years on the market, to a miner who works for the mtr site. They are the only ones who are willing to buy into this area now and that is because they have taken a job on the MTR.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:45:25 +0000

I happen to live just across the hill from John Amos Power Plant and can usually see the steam plume from its cooling towers. I thank God every day for the low cost of the electricity produced from coal. I have worked as an engineer in the coal industry for many years and have been priviledged to see first hand the beautiful reclamation work with its abundance of wildlife associated with mountain top removal as well as other surface mining methods. It’s a pity that so many of the general public’s opinions are based solely upon the propaganda disseminated by organizations such as yours. I hereby offer anyone reading these comments (assuming that you have the fortitude to publish them) the opportunity to learn some real information about surface mining.

By: JULIA HASTY

JULIA HASTY — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:33:23 +0000

I LOVE YOU GUYS! ON THE WEST COAST (PORTLAND) EDUCATING PEOPLE ABOUT MTR. WE PROTESTED BANK OF AMERICA WITH MTR AND PEOPLE WERE REALLY CONCERNED AND INTO IT. I WILL BE BACK TO MY APPALACHIAN MTNS SOON. KEEP YOUR EVENTS UPDATED I WILL BE BACK THIS SPRING/SUMMER FOR ACTIONS!
J

By: Judy

Judy — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:13:20 +0000

This is a great tool. The members of Congress that refuse to sign on to HR2169 should use this tool to see THEIR connection to mountaintop removal’s destruction.