Comments on: Larry Gibson is a “CNN Hero” http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/273 END MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL COAL MINING IN APPALACHIA! Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:59:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: Charity Lopp http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/273#comment-19959 Charity Lopp Mon, 22 Oct 2007 02:06:36 +0000 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/273#comment-19959 Dear Mr. Gibson, God Bless you. You are a hero. Our world needs more like you. My son wants to spread the word at his school. He's working on doing a presentation. My husband is planning a trip to Corbin, Kentucky. His father is buried there. On the side of a mountain. According to Google Earth just North and South is due to have mtr done. This is appalling. Any excuses that are made are pathetic at best. We need to make a difference. You are an inspiration. A role to show that even one can take a stand for what is right and for what is believed. Again, Bless you. Charity Dear Mr. Gibson,
God Bless you. You are a hero. Our world needs more like you. My son wants to spread the word at his school. He’s working on doing a presentation.
My husband is planning a trip to Corbin, Kentucky. His father is buried there. On the side of a mountain. According to Google Earth just North and South is due to have mtr done.
This is appalling. Any excuses that are made are pathetic at best. We need to make a difference. You are an inspiration. A role to show that even one can take a stand for what is right and for what is believed.
Again, Bless you.
Charity

]]> By: Rob http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/273#comment-19902 Rob Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:55:22 +0000 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/273#comment-19902 Dear Larry Mullins: If you think that coal mining of any sort, especially MTR, is going to benefit your children, my friend, guess again. The environmental destruction of coal mining leaves behind poisoned water and dead forest in the mining areas, and burning coal for power kills people with poisoned air. You are not doing any good for your children -- in fact, you are setting them up to die a horrible death, from poisoned air and water. We don't need more coal. With wind, solar and conservation we can get off of coal for good. Let it sit in the ground where God put it. Dear Larry Mullins: If you think that coal mining of any sort, especially MTR, is going to benefit your children, my friend, guess again. The environmental destruction of coal mining leaves behind poisoned water and dead forest in the mining areas, and burning coal for power kills people with poisoned air. You are not doing any good for your children — in fact, you are setting them up to die a horrible death, from poisoned air and water. We don’t need more coal. With wind, solar and conservation we can get off of coal for good. Let it sit in the ground where God put it.

]]> By: Patricia A. Gozemba http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/273#comment-19563 Patricia A. Gozemba Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:16:11 +0000 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/273#comment-19563 Larry Gibson showed me his mountain and the moonscape that surrounded it. That moonscape was created by greedy coal companies for whom profit comes first and respect for nature and the environment that we all live in comes last. Gibson's commitment to our planet as exemplified in his commitment to Kayford Mt. sustains me as I try to clean up my part of the planet--a coal-burning power plant in my neighborhood in Salem, Massachusetts. Larry is a true hero! Larry Gibson showed me his mountain and the moonscape that surrounded it. That moonscape was created by greedy coal companies for whom profit comes first and respect for nature and the environment that we all live in comes last. Gibson’s commitment to our planet as exemplified in his commitment to Kayford Mt. sustains me as I try to clean up my part of the planet–a coal-burning power plant in my neighborhood in Salem, Massachusetts. Larry is a true hero!

]]> By: Mark Schmerling http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/273#comment-18319 Mark Schmerling Tue, 28 Aug 2007 03:12:27 +0000 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/273#comment-18319 Dear Wallace, I can appreciate that you work hard for a living, but I've been to southern West Virginia enough times, and been to enough sites, and met enough good people to know that you are not seeing the big picture, or any picture not drawn by your employer. If it's all about jobs, why are only about 15,000 miners employed in West Virginia today, compared to over 110,000 in 1960? If MTR is all about energy, please tell me how much energy is during the entire MTR process, from the fuel for the machines to level the forest, to pushing trees and "overburden" (a coal company bullshit name for the soil that nourishes our planet), over the hillside, to the fuel to make the explosives (that are damaging your own health), to all the vehicles used in the process, to hauling the coal away (including shipping it overseas for goodness sake!),compared to the energy derived from the coal? Tell me how many board feet of lumber are pushed illegally over the hillsides, and how many millions more board feet will never grow where MTR is committed? Timber is a renewable resource. Coal does its dirty job, and it's gone, just like the mountains. You can have mountains AND energy, too. Look at the top of th emountain on U.S. 219 in tucker County. It has forests; it has life; and guess what? It produces wind energy! If you don't like the look of wind turbines on a mountain, you must really hate what MTR does! If better energy technology comes along, then you can take down the turbines, and presto, you have a beautiful mountain again. Miners can still continue their legacy and tradition of producing energy, but it can be clean energy, that doesn't destroy soil, forests, mountains, streams, human health, and spirit and culture. The only "nazis" are the career criminals in the Bush Administration and the the offenders like the big criminal living on the hill near Williamson, who support or practice terrorism on their own people and land, so that someone can make a pile of money the size of Bolt Mountain, and let thousands of innocent people bear the costs. Wallace, you are a pawn of the big coal companies. They are filling your lungs with rock dust, and your head with propaganda. They are using you to help polarize your own people, so they can steal your underwear while you're sleeping. Do you hunt? Do you know that MTR employees are burying bear cubs and sows in their dens when they knock over the forest and shove it over the hill? Do you really expect anyone to believe that mountaintop removal is good for deer hunting? Nothing is there to support the deer! Where is the ginseng after the land is raped? Where are the trees? MTR is akin to cutting off one of your legs so you can get one more bite to eat, when a banquet of healthy food lies right around the corner. If you can do what you do without a blink of a feeling, Massey or some other outfit must have brought you in from somewhere else to do their dirty work. It's pretty sorry stuff! Some day, you'll change your mind, but first you need to open it, and the sooner, the better, for you and everyone else. Thank you. Mark Dear Wallace,

I can appreciate that you work hard for a living, but I’ve been to southern West Virginia enough times, and been to enough sites, and met enough good people to know that you are not seeing the big picture, or any picture not drawn by your employer. If it’s all about jobs, why are only about 15,000 miners employed in West Virginia today, compared to over 110,000 in 1960? If MTR is all about energy, please tell me how much energy is during the entire MTR process, from the fuel for the machines to level the forest, to pushing trees and “overburden” (a coal company bullshit name for the soil that nourishes our planet), over the hillside, to the fuel to make the explosives (that are damaging your own health), to all the vehicles used in the process, to hauling the coal away (including shipping it overseas for goodness sake!),compared to the energy derived from the coal? Tell me how many board feet of lumber are pushed illegally over the hillsides, and how many millions more board feet will never grow where MTR is committed? Timber is a renewable resource. Coal does its dirty job, and it’s gone, just like the mountains.

You can have mountains AND energy, too. Look at the top of th emountain on U.S. 219 in tucker County. It has forests; it has life; and guess what? It produces wind energy! If you don’t like the look of wind turbines on a mountain, you must really hate what MTR does!
If better energy technology comes along, then you can take down the turbines, and presto, you have a beautiful mountain again.

Miners can still continue their legacy and tradition of producing energy, but it can be clean energy, that doesn’t destroy soil, forests, mountains, streams, human health, and spirit and culture.

The only “nazis” are the career criminals in the Bush Administration and the the offenders like the big criminal living on the hill near Williamson, who support or practice terrorism on their own people and land, so that someone can make a pile of money the size of Bolt Mountain, and let thousands of innocent people bear the costs.

Wallace, you are a pawn of the big coal companies. They are filling your lungs with rock dust, and your head with propaganda. They are using you to help polarize your own people, so they can steal your underwear while you’re sleeping.

Do you hunt? Do you know that MTR employees are burying bear cubs and sows in their dens when they knock over the forest and shove it over the hill? Do you really expect anyone to believe that mountaintop removal is good for deer hunting? Nothing is there to support the deer! Where is the ginseng after the land is raped? Where are the trees?

MTR is akin to cutting off one of your legs so you can get one more bite to eat, when a banquet of healthy food lies right around the corner.

If you can do what you do without a blink of a feeling, Massey or some other outfit must have brought you in from somewhere else to do their dirty work. It’s pretty sorry stuff!

Some day, you’ll change your mind, but first you need to open it, and the sooner, the better, for you and everyone else.

Thank you.

Mark

]]> By: wallace mullins jr http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/273#comment-17941 wallace mullins jr Sat, 18 Aug 2007 01:03:17 +0000 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/273#comment-17941 What powers your house? it is coal if you are so serious about what you belive in call the power company and tell them to cut your power off. Why would you want to use more power shut down the web sites cut off your power and go back to living in the 1940s. You don't tell about all the good things that coal brings i can take any body not from around here tell them that you are a bunch of nazis and they would belive it. You continue to do what you think is right and so will I blowing off the tops of mountains providing for my kids and suppling energy for the nation. What powers your house? it is coal if you are so serious about what you belive in call the power company and tell them to cut your power off. Why would you want to use more power shut down the web sites cut off your power and go back to living in the 1940s. You don’t tell about all the good things that coal brings i can take any body not from around here tell them that you are a bunch of nazis and they would belive it. You continue to do what you think is right and so will I blowing off the tops of mountains providing for my kids and suppling energy for the nation.

]]> By: Carolyn Nagle http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/273#comment-17886 Carolyn Nagle Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:48:33 +0000 http://www.ilovemountains.org/news/273#comment-17886 I grew up in this area and I am disgusted by what is happening to it. I no longer live there, but remember it fondly. What a gorgeous area to level! I am so proud of the stand Larry Gibson is taking and I support him in these efforts. I will write to Congress and I will donate to this cause. I cannot bear to see such a utter disregard for our national treasures. I grew up in this area and I am disgusted by what is happening to it. I no longer live there, but remember it fondly. What a gorgeous area to level! I am so proud of the stand Larry Gibson is taking and I support him in these efforts. I will write to Congress and I will donate to this cause. I cannot bear to see such a utter disregard for our national treasures.

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