Comments on: Massey Cited for Blasting on Coal River Mountain

By: Mary McCalla

Mary McCalla — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:17:00 +0000

I believe that mountain top mining is the worst of all environmental crimes

By: Barbara Hansen

Barbara Hansen — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:37:15 +0000

We must work as a world community to stop global warming or we will lose. Barbara H.

By: Cari Leigh Moore

Cari Leigh Moore — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:38:12 +0000

I just wanted to add that I came back here to get some information, and one of my nephews and my niece came by and saw the picture. They live a few hours out of where I live, but they visit us in the hills, often. Another nephew who was out of the room, wants to come live in the mountains when he’s 18. The two who looked at the image asked, “What’s that?” I told them it was once a mountain. They both said they hated it (MTR), and it destroyed the place’s natural beauty. About a year or two ago, my niece went by an MTR site and said, “That is stupid!” Or maybe she said “They’re stupid.” I can’t recall for certain. Then she asked me, “Why would they do that?” I told her a bit about the reasons and how there were much better alternatives. She turned 11 less than a month ago, so she would have been 9 or 10 at that time and she had more sense than a lot of adults that I knew. These are the people who will inherit the earth when we are dead, and many of them aren’t pleased with this.

By: David

David — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:06:26 +0000

To bad people have quit caring about the planet that sustains thier miserable lives. The falling percentage of people who believe in global warming is a direct result of dirty energy companies ability to drag on the fight endlessly! free and fair elections is the only hope for this country and world, we need to get special interest money out of the election process!

By: Cynthia Stout

Cynthia Stout — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:36:38 +0000

ANY BLASTING IS “TO BIG A CHARGE” GIVE ME A BREAK, WE ARE NOT STUPID…THIS HAS GOT TO STOP…

By: hebintn

hebintn — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:53:13 +0000

Don’t mistake my intent, I hate mountaintop removal as much as anyone, but Massey Coal is a company with stockholders that expect return on their investment – this the good old American (capitalist) way. The company has no morals except to make a return for their investors. They will use any mechanism they can to do this. MTR is the most cost effective way for them to turn a profit in the safest way (and to hell with the mountains.) Until congress shifts into high gear about the energy situation coal will be mined, processed, transported, burned, and the dirty residue hidden somewhere. We MUST push for alternatives HARD where ever and whenever possible. Coal is touted as being cheapest energy source, but I’d like to see figures on the total cost of a ton of coal including locating, purchasing, engineering, extraction, processing, hiding the sludge, dealing with spills, transporting, burning, dealing with waste and cleanup. My guess is the cost of coal is 2-3 times what big coal claims. Compare this to the one time cost of a wind or solar instalation and the permanent jobs these alternatives produce.

By: Lionel Gambill

Lionel Gambill — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:27:58 +0000

Waging war against the Earth by blasting mountains into smithereens is the real crime against nature. Stop the atrocity and bring the Big Coal criminals to justice! now!

STOP ECOCIDE!

By: Cari Leigh Moore

Cari Leigh Moore — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:44:04 +0000

Wow. I thought it spoke low enough of their feelings towards the residents whose lives are endangered by this dam, that they would even blast in the area at all- and now they’re using more explosives there than they’re legally allowed to? This only goes to support my belief that the coal company believes Appalachian citizens are expendable.