Comments on: New Reuters Video focuses on effects of Mountaintop Removal in Kentucky https://ilovemountains.org/news/763 END MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL COAL MINING IN APPALACHIA! Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:56:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.18 By: Karen Sterling https://ilovemountains.org/news/763#comment-82559 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:56:23 +0000 http://ilovemountains.org/all/763#comment-82559 It is unbelievable that our government allows a stream to become so polluted. Anything over 500ppm is considered unrepairable damage. The iron content of this Floyd County stream is 1900ppm.

Kentucky Coal Ass. Pres.,Bill Bissett’s remarks are just as hard to swallow as the toxic water. Some green foliage growing over a scarred hillside does not mean reclamation is a success. The heads and shoulders of our beloved Mountains are missing!

I am a Kentuckian. To see this obscenity, pushed on my people and their homes, the forest, the wildlife and on these age-old Mountains of Eastern Kentucky, makes me weep. It makes my heart heavy, and I will not be satisfied until these bullies are stopped!

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