Comments on: Environmental Protection Agency Approves Permit for Controversial WV Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine

By: charlie bush

charlie bush — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:45:37 +0000

I just looked at the cosponsers of HR 1310, the bill to stop the streams being filled in. None of them were from WV. What a disgrace.

By: jac

jac — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:05:23 +0000

The irony is that to ‘preserve’ the miner’s way of life, they are destroying the world in which they live. You can’t preserve the way of life by destroying it. It is so obviously a mistake to destroy these mountains. The people need to move on and find new jobs.

By: Imanoid

Imanoid — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:33:19 +0000

Hello: I was very displeased to learn that the Hobet site was approved. I heard on the Diane Rheem show that it was a bone thrown at the UMW miners at that site. Also, heard that there were more mountain top sites with high numbers of UMW miners. Does that mean that they will be approved by this administration, too? We were told that on the NPR show today that the spokes people at EPA were displeased that NPR was airing the show.
C’mon folks, let’s get behind the effort to STOP these rapes of beautiful mountains, and the people that have to live there. Thank-you, Mickey