Comments on: EPA APPROVES Permit For Mountaintop Removal at Pine Creek

By: Jack Ferrell

Jack Ferrell — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:22:22 +0000

As long as our elected Local and State officials act as taxpayer paid lobbist for the Coal Industry, our Southwestern Counties will be destroyed and the people posioned.

By: Maggie Meehan

Maggie Meehan — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:47:51 +0000

The fact that President Obama, whom I supported and still do, or anyone else supports coal is not the issue. The issue is that mountain top removal coal mining is an irreparable rape of our environment and we must come together to make it stop–whatever it takes.

By: ken brockman

ken brockman — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:09:10 +0000

a local chicgo boy being a long time supporter of coal.
hummm.and i just heard a very strong argument on joe the blow scarborough this morning about how hostile mr obama is to business.something ain’t jiving.and the epa administrater seems not to be a coal leaning butt kisser.she will be a big help to the people all over the world who love kentucky and her mountains,and their basketball.i know i love them.and prestonburg and their golf courseing coal owning buddies can go straight to heck,i’ll never go thru there again.i love the appalachia mountains,and i love all of the judds.and i sure hope the other judds are as eager to stop these hideous act by coal companies as ashley is.ashley topless is beautiful,kentucky not so much.well stated by a previous poster.

By: Steve Aylestock

Steve Aylestock — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:28:57 +0000

I have just finished a couple of books on American Indian history. We are doing the same thing now that we started in the early 1700’s against the land and the people. Mountain top removal and valley fills are wrong. Someday, this kind of activities will come back to haunt us all. Sad to say, but we are all longtime supporters of coal. We need a new source of energy and conservation of what we now have.

By: Robert Cerello

Robert Cerello — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:01:51 +0000

Unless this is topped, you give voting citizen adults no choice between you and your opponents. They are pseudo-religion spouting infallibility adherents, marching in visionless, volitionless lockstep behind failed leaders preaching anarchy–non-regulation of the most destructive elements in our society from rogue individuals to corporate, financial, media and government extremists of the most shocking viciousness. All that you have to do to gain positive support and approbation from hundreds of millions of persons is to apply existing regulations where your neocon predecessors refused to do so and stop such destructions as loss of ecozone land and animals species, stopping crimes against individuals they refused to regulate and ending mountaintop removal, offshore drilling without adequate safeguards and initiating repair of dangerously functioning bridges, and other “public” interest projects neocon republicans love to build and refuse to repair. Start with the most destructive and dangerous of all pseudo-industrial criminality–mountaintop removal. Either we are a societal association of individuals willing to obey regulations–a nation of regulations–or we have no reason to exist since our members can’t act like adults, humans, sane minds. Start the reform here. Save your administration and your own careers. Stop mountaintop removal. NOW.
Thank you for saving our nation from postmodernistic reality trashers.

By: Bill Samuel

Bill Samuel — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:02:05 +0000

You have to realize that President Obama is a longtime supporter of coal.

By: Phil Stout

Phil Stout — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 02:33:09 +0000

I’ve been thinking lately about all the attention being paid to an oil spill in the gulf of mexico compared to the ignored environmental disaster in kentucky and west virginia. It seems to me that coal companies should be held to similar standards as BP. It seems to me that media attention should also be similar. What gives?

By: Steve Hill

Steve Hill — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:47:13 +0000

It’s really unfortunate that our energy crazed society allows for things like this to happen. I can understand mining to a certain extent because all you’re really doing is digging around, but to level an entire mountain is ridiculous.

By: Yvonne Witt

Yvonne Witt — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:14:04 +0000

I can’t understand why this would be allowed to happen in a civlized, educated society. Anyone who really educates themselves on the matter should be appalled & the complete lack of concern by the EPA for our beloved country & our dwindling resources due to negligence & lack of accountability.

My family & our American Indian decendants are all from the Appalachian area. If we took care of the land half as good as our American Indian ancestors, we wouldn’t have football sized landfills full of items that could’ve been recycled or a beautiful mountain top still in tact 100 years from now for our children.