By: Wilma Steele

Wilma Steele — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:47:44 +0000

I am very proud of Rachel, sometimes it takes a new prespective to get others to see what’s right in front of them. I live in the Southern part of WV where many MTR sites exist. I have listened to that nonsense about all the great uses for all that flat land created by MTR until I wanted to scream! I now realize what it’s all about.
Southern WV, Mingo Co., almost washed away from rain run-off from the MTR sites on May 9th. 2009. In the following days, one of our residents – a lawyer for one of the coal companys, he also has connections with one of the larger land companies, wrote an article. He said MTR sites could be important to give us flood – free places to live.
In other words, when the MTR mine operations destroy our homes, our people can leave everything they have worked for and buy their land to be safe from flooding they created. How’s that for jowl dropping! Some believe it would be too expensive to lay the water and sewer lines to develope this land for housing, but guess what?
This weeks Williamson Daily News, printed the plans for the lines for the new school, (being built on MTR site), so it will be there when they need it and we, the tax payers, are providing it. I guess after blasting mountains away, moving people will be easy.

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By: Wilma Steele