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

By: Randy TaTe

Randy TaTe — Mon, 04 May 2015 19:50:33 +0000

Return of the Home Land. Let’s deal with getting our land back for the people, the animals, and our claim to the natural resources to stop the destruction. You can make a difference by signing today!! Sign and Share!!
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/return-of-the-home-land

Principal Chief Randy TwoBears Standing TaTe

By: Valerie Jenner

Valerie Jenner — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:21:53 +0000

We have been installing solar solutions since 1985 and are confused by the dominance of coal since new real time metrics demonstrate solar is practical and affordable. We are working hard to bring and renewable solution to those who really want to be the change and stop the suffering. Sincerely from Michigan.

By: Laura Jennings

Laura Jennings — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:24:03 +0000

Trying to find a video from Sundance Channel documentary about this topic.

By: Tracy Turner

Tracy Turner — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:10:10 +0000

The mountaintop miners say, “show us an alternative”… Grow Olive Tree Bio-Diesel. Plant a tree once, harvest Olives to make diesel for 300-400 years. http://olivebiodiesel.com/

There’s an alternative, but it takes hard work and planning, not just running a bulldozer.

By: Thomas Thonpson

Thomas Thonpson — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:24:40 +0000

Another huge benefit to not burning coal is that we can stop decapitating our mountains. I believe this practice to be a heinous act against nature and a scourge to people currently living in those areas and to future generations. Also, we can worry less about all the toxic materials stored in huge retention ponds with earthen dams that have failed many times, releasing the toxic materials into the local environment and water supply.

By: Richard Lupson

Richard Lupson — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:16:50 +0000

I was raised in WV and my family still live there. I love visiting and still call it home. The beauty of the mountains still give me goosebumps and the devastation going on is heart breaking. Please keep up the good work and save the gift that only God could have created.

By: Kathy Johnston

Kathy Johnston — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:50:25 +0000

Please earnestly support S696, HR1310, & HR2169.
Thank you.

By: William Dodd

William Dodd — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:28:35 +0000

For Maria Gunnoe…
I just saw the film “Burning our Future” on Sundance. I had the pleasure of visiting your area in Nov. ’07. I work with Oak, Birch, Hickory sustainable Hardwood Flooring. I really was awestruck on how beautiful the Appalachian Mountain Range is, when the fall colors were visible. I believe it is completely appalling what is happening to your area. How did the coal industry thrive before leveling mountaintops? By employing hard working men and women through less invasive methods. Maybe the fat-cat execs of the coal industry should worry less about profits and stick to more traditional ways. This would employ more miners as before. Couldn’t your team truck some coal slurry or black well water to their Penthouse’s in New York? If it’s collateral damage, why can’t they share in the experience that you folks in West Virginia are forced to live with? I appreciated your efforts very much and wish you, your family, loved ones, and neighbors the very best. Although I lived and work up here in Washington State, I will be keeping a very close eye on your plight. My e-mail contact is listed and I would be interested in getting any updates or donation information forwarded to will@finishingtouchfloors.com.

Good luck and God bless,

William Dodd
Snohomish, WA

By: Matthew Collins

Matthew Collins — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:10:07 +0000

I am a native of Northern Kentucky,however I have been living in the R.O.C. Taiwan for more than 6 years now. I am studying a masters in ecotourism at the national university of Tainan City Taiwan. My professors have asked me to discuss and introduce nature/ecotourism in the US and naturally I began looking at Kentucky. I considered the recreational use of natural forest resources as an alternative to traditional extraction of primary resources – lumber and minerals – I feel shocked at the magnitude and ruthlessness of the destruction occurring in the Appalachia.

By: Nina Johnson

Nina Johnson — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:55:24 +0000

Just watched “Burning The Future: Coal In America, which was on the Sundance Channel. Makes you want to cry. I want to help but don’t know how.

By: brad wells

brad wells — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:16:52 +0000

what a vicious circle. family bought the land with money from a coal mine only to have that land destroyed by a coal mine.

By: Melissa Courtney

Melissa Courtney — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:35:28 +0000

Doing a mock policy briefing for my Natural Resource Policy class on mountain top removal