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Toxic West Virginia: Mountaintop Removal- Episode 1

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FOR MORE OF TOXIC WEST VIRGINIA VISIT: http://www.vbs.tv/player.php?b... Meredith Danluck is a New York artist, director, and all-around amazing person who has a killer collection of power tools. VBS bumped into her a few months ago and discovered that she has been working on a film in West Virginia, a sort of impressionistic account of the current environmental catastrophe in the Appalachian Mountains. Mining companies are destroying entire mountains in order to get at the coal inside them. Quickly and efficiently, the oldest mountain range in the world is being systematically obliterated. We sent Meredith and VBS correspondent Derrick Beckles to the hills and hollers of West Virginia to show us what the end of the world looks like.

Channel: Travel & Events
Uploaded: February 20, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Author: VBSdotTV

Length: 04:44
Rating: 4.31
Views: 486155

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StuftAnimalLove (May 13, 2008 at 11:35 pm)
they were gonna pay my school 10 mil to put one beside on the other side of it!! but thank god they didnt let them (to obstructive and dangerous!!!) beside a school!! ugh!!
2025DPlaza (May 13, 2008 at 6:46 pm)
Halani, you're an African Muslim.
halani (May 13, 2008 at 10:13 am)
Common mountain mammas, prove to us the Virginia State shooter you gave birth to was just an aberration. Vote Obama 08.
2025DPlaza (May 12, 2008 at 4:14 pm)
Hillary Clinton is the only candidate with a plan and the only candidate who understands what America MUST do to become energy efficient & independent. She is the only candidate that is trying to save America for her grandchildren that will soon come. She is the only candidate that talks about CLEAN COAL technologies and she has encouraged the development of clean coal technology in her state, where the 1ST clean coal plant in America was launched with the new tech (NY, where she is senator).
2025DPlaza (May 12, 2008 at 4:07 pm)
So, President Bush and the EPA have chosen to let power plants generate three times more mercury pollution over the next 50years than would be allowed under the original Clean Air Act. Bush's EPA has halted all major progress that has been made in the past 10 years to fight against mercury problems, by favoring industries over the environment and human life. The coal industry, one of the main sources of mercury pollution, contributed more than $250,000 to President Bush's last campaign.
2025DPlaza (May 12, 2008 at 4:04 pm)
The U.S. government has lowered the "safe" mercury intake level twice in sixteen years. On March 15, 2003, the EPA announced new mercury control regulations that will delay deep cuts in emissions of mercury into our atmosphere.
2025DPlaza (May 12, 2008 at 4:02 pm)
West Virginia is beautiful and this is a GD shame. BEAUTIFUL! What they don't tell you is that this type of mining is not only more toxic, but it spews out tons more mercury than the old way. Mercury is neurotoxic and causes all kinds of problems in the body (not just the brain and nervous system). West Virginia and KY are the states with the highest ratio of mercury in the air (parts per million).
PearlFizzberry (May 12, 2008 at 3:53 pm)
I'm sorry, I didn't intend my comment to you at all. It went in the wrong place. I was trying to reply to "latte liberal". Sorry again, I'm in total agreement with you...
CCDR07 (May 12, 2008 at 2:08 pm)
Sorry for trying to sound like a moderate. I was trying not to piss anyone off! I'm a biologist and study natural resource issues. I see the env'tl costs of resource extraction every day and there's no arguement that it's not sustainable. We either try a rethink on what life's all about or we're going to crash and burn. My earlier point is that fossilfuels create more problems than they fix. have learned and read about the environmental costs of our resource and health costs
PearlFizzberry (May 11, 2008 at 7:58 pm)
OMG. You are quite possibly the most ill informed narcissistic jerk I have ever came across.

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