2 Responses to “VIDEO: Effect of Mountaintop Removal”

1. John Robinette Says:
   March 27th, 2009 at 4:39 am

   Strip mining gives people just like you light to see with each night at your home. It also allows you to be warm and feed your kids you love each day. You may love these mountains but what I think, is that you are concerned about your own job and want to put hard working people and their families on the streets without a home and food. I really think you ought to think about all the people out there you could hurt before you make suggestions about doing away with their jobs. Have a little dignity and put yourself in those people’s shoes. God put that coal in the ground to be dug up to provide the things we have today. Is it really hurting you? No it is not. Leave it be.

2. Mike Niles Says:
   November 3rd, 2009 at 6:50 pm

   John, you could not be more wrong. These companies are employing 8-12 employees per site to do all of this work, where traditional minig may have had 50-100 jobs on a site. Further, the mothods of removal are so invasive that they damage the residents’ homes and sometimes families themselves. They also make the homes nearly uninhabitable and yet worthless for resale. Imagine if you wanted to get away from your home, but no one will buy it and you still have a mortgage? What do you do? Stay there, is the unfortunate answer, even at the cost of your own health and safety. This treatment of humans and nature must stop.

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