Comments on: Voices from the Mountains: Maria Gunnoe http://www.ilovemountains.org/memorial/c302/40 END MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL COAL MINING IN APPALACHIA! Sun, 12 Oct 2008 02:30:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Trish Ciaffone http://www.ilovemountains.org/memorial/c302/40#comment-29393 Trish Ciaffone Wed, 14 May 2008 22:36:35 +0000 http://www.ilovemountains.org/memorial/c302/40#comment-29393 It amazes me to hear people say "if you don't like it, you can move" to anyone. This kind of response is made by narrow minded people. The Gunnoe family are citizens of this country, and have the same rights as all Americans, including YOU, Kayla! If the miners would stop letting the companies brain wash them with propaganda and fear mongering, they might see that this kind of destructive mining has actually COST them jobs. Stop letting corporate greed turn you against your own neighbors. This family and others like them have suffered horribly with the loss of their way of life, their property value, and even a beloved pet that was taken by the flooding. Open your eyes and see how you and your family are just being used by this greedy mining company and stand up to them. If they were forced to resume underground mining, not only would jobs be saved, jobs would be created. Well. more accurately, they would have to open the jobs they have gotten rid of by blowing up the mountains instead of tunneling into them. These greedy people are using you. When the profit is gone, they will be, too. Then all you will have left is a ruined, worthless environment and nowhere to go. We need to focus on renewable energy sources and conservation before all the mountains are destroyed by this barbaric industry. It amazes me to hear people say “if you don’t like it, you can move” to anyone. This kind of response is made by narrow minded people. The Gunnoe family are citizens of this country, and have the same rights as all Americans, including YOU, Kayla! If the miners would stop letting the companies brain wash them with propaganda and fear mongering, they might see that this kind of destructive mining has actually COST them jobs. Stop letting corporate greed turn you against your own neighbors. This family and others like them have suffered horribly with the loss of their way of life, their property value, and even a beloved pet that was taken by the flooding. Open your eyes and see how you and your family are just being used by this greedy mining company and stand up to them. If they were forced to resume underground mining, not only would jobs be saved, jobs would be created. Well. more accurately, they would have to open the jobs they have gotten rid of by blowing up the mountains instead of tunneling into them. These greedy people are using you. When the profit is gone, they will be, too. Then all you will have left is a ruined, worthless environment and nowhere to go.
We need to focus on renewable energy sources and conservation before all the mountains are destroyed by this barbaric industry.

]]> By: adam slone http://www.ilovemountains.org/memorial/c302/40#comment-26813 adam slone Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:20:24 +0000 http://www.ilovemountains.org/memorial/c302/40#comment-26813 "People ask me why we don’t move. In order to move you must have money. Our place is worthless. Anyone would be crazy to buy a wasteland. I cannot transport anything out. I have no way to get anything I have out of my home other than by carrying it 500 yards. I am being forced out of my home..." “People ask me why we don’t move. In order to move you must have money. Our place is worthless. Anyone would be crazy to buy a wasteland.

I cannot transport anything out. I have no way to get anything I have out of my home other than by carrying it 500 yards. I am being forced out of my home…”

]]> By: Greg Bender http://www.ilovemountains.org/memorial/c302/40#comment-24824 Greg Bender Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:16:39 +0000 http://www.ilovemountains.org/memorial/c302/40#comment-24824 Kayla Perry obviously did not read the article. Maria cannot move because her property has become worthless due to the mining. Sounds like she would move if she could, but it's not possible. Kayla wants her family to keep their jobs at the expense of the people whose entire lives are destroyed by this practice. The moral choice should be clear, but money has destroyed Kayla's conscience. Kayla Perry obviously did not read the article. Maria cannot move because her property has become worthless due to the mining. Sounds like she would move if she could, but it’s not possible.

Kayla wants her family to keep their jobs at the expense of the people whose entire lives are destroyed by this practice. The moral choice should be clear, but money has destroyed Kayla’s conscience.

]]> By: kayla perry http://www.ilovemountains.org/memorial/c302/40#comment-22033 kayla perry Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:48:31 +0000 http://www.ilovemountains.org/memorial/c302/40#comment-22033 if you dont like it move..their are other people in wv that make a living my their family workin in the mines if you dont like it move..their are other people in wv that make a living my their family workin in the mines

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