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  Mountain Top Removal, it's been going on so long and we have already lost so much! While we blog about it and try to point out the devisttion, more mountains and valleys are being destroyed. If the rest of the nation don't stop this the native people of East Ky. and WVa will not be able to by themselves.On An Appalachian tale posted 6 days, 12 hours ago 3 Responses

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  Lincoln, born in Kentucky and a man of the fields in his early life would have been appalled to see what the coal corporations are doing to his state with the Mountain Top Removal method of mining coal. The indigenous peoples of Kentucky left us a virtual paradise we know know as the decisous forest of the southern Appalachian Mountain Chain. The coal corporations have enslaved a people and exploited this are for over 100 years. I believe Lincoln would have set the people of East Kentucky free and stopped Mountain Top Removal.On WWLD: What Would Lincoln Do? posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago 2 Responses

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  West Virginia and East Kentucky are in the heart of the southern Appalachian decicuos forest and are being destroyed by Mountain Top Removal mining. Sen. Byrd when he talks about the coal economy of WVa. is talking about the continued destruction of the Appalachian Mountains by the most devistating type of mining ever devised by man. Bryd was around when the major type of mining was underground mining and less destructive that MTR and knows he had 4 times the number of miners employed in the underground mining industry. If he was so worried about mining jobs in WVa. he would help stop MTR and put 4 times the number of miners back to work and also save the beautiful mountains of WVa. Help Stop Mountain Top Removal!On Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) [UPDATED] posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago 1 Response

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  I see no provision for displaced miners if the effect of the bill reduces demand for steam coal. This will be especially true for the Eastern Coal fields that can't compete with Western Coal unless they are allowed to use the Mountain Top Removal method for strip mining coal. In reality forcing the halt of the most destructive type of mining ever devised would probably add more jobs to the region when the coal corporations are forced to go back underground for coal and mine it right. If however the Kerry Boxer Bill works as it should and reduces the amount of energy produced by fossil fuel or at least forces the coal corporations to mine and burn it cleaner the short term layoffs in the coal industry shuld be addressed if they occur. I don't know that the bill does not provide assistance for this as I have not read the bill in it's entirety.On Kerry-Boxer clean energy bill: Chairman's mark and EPA analysis released posted 4 weeks ago 5 Responses

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  I don't feel the destruction of the Southern Appalachian Deciduous Forest was factored into this report. The cost of the reclamation will go into the billions at some point in time. The region can never be properly reclaimed really, once you blow off the tops of the mountains and push them over into pristine valleys you can never get those forest back. The fresh water in the region has been ruined and the pollution flows all the way down the Ohio river so the extent of the pollution and destruction in not just a regional one. 500 mountains and associated hollows or valleys gone. It would be hard to put a price on what wilderness and wildlife area we have already lost. The lost of fresh drinking water is immeasurable, the pressure on this planet wide resource is approaching critical mass and no where more so than in the Eastern Coal Fields. What kind of price do you put on fresh water when you have none left?On Report finds massive hidden energy costs, mostly from coal posted 4 weeks ago 5 Responses