Comments on: An Outlaw Industry

By: polite

polite — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:31:25 +0000

It is unbelieveable our politicans pass laws for script mining destroying the waters we drink and killing our animals and trees to make several human beings wealthy, it takes the life of our kids grandchildren and great grand children, our society is so corrupt to let this happen our WVA and Virgina and Ky mountains are a sight to the human eye after mountain top removal Will our Politicans stop this, I am a underground coal miner my self we do not destroy other peoples lives by filling rivers and streams and moving soil which trees will never grow back.Please everyone help stop this do not let the script mines mountain top mining destroy our lives and the wildlife and it contributes to global warming, this makes only a few wealthy and we are suffer our kids and familys.

By: polite

polite — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:18:54 +0000

stripping in Ky mountains fills in our rivers and destroy the soil trees will not grow back and causes rivers to flood with streams full of dirt from mountain top removal, causing global warming to fill only few people with wealth.

By: ellen

ellen — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:21:13 +0000

This is yet another tragedy of habitat destruction. How can this be stopped without simply pushing it onto another country? Perhaps there’s a more conscientious way to mine for the coal that is apparently necessary to supply the energy needs of this country until such ideas as wind energy transmission lines from N and S Dakota wind mills to other parts of the nation can be instituted. Articles such as this I hope will at least serve to create more momentum for the far less destructive options for living on earth such as wind, solar, geothermal, small organic farms, sustainable ecological communities perhaps involving greater self reliance to limit cross country cross nation transportation at the same time making use of resource saving microtechnology to stay connected socially with the rest of the world and thereby become models for living with our connectivity in mind rather than living as we do now with so called “productivity” (read:”selfish profit”) in mind.