Mountaintop Removal Movie from iLoveMountains.org
More than 500 mountains have been destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining. Watch this video of mountaintop removal featuring Woody Harrelson and a soundtrack featuring an original recording of “Blowin’ in the Wind,” sung by Willie Nelson. This video is part of the National Memorial for the Mountains, hosted by www.ilovemountains.org.
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MTM miners are not REAL coal miners: They’re heavy equipment operators. Not miners.
digging more than cole toxic rock dumped into headwaters for profit thats geniside
Turn off your power… get rid of everything in your lives that has to do with coal…. then bring out a video… if you’re going to preach it… live it…. larry gibson…. what a LIAR!!!!!! tell your friends to take a bath also please !!!!!!
Name one better way. Nuke? Wind? Sun? According to Nova we would need cover every inch of dry land on planet earth to provide the power we will need in 20 years from solar or wind. Wonder how the tree hugger would like the mountains if they were completely covered with solar panels. Please educate yourself about the alt options before asking that this country abandon the most economical and plentiful energy source.
Do tell…how many lives have been lost?
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No,not stupid. Just stating the facts that the heavy equipment operators on MTM outfits don’t really want to hear. That’s all they are: Heavy equipment Operators, not coal miners. Sorry to burst your bubble or blast away your friendly mountain top security post.
Almost all the comments in videos such as this, like the videos themselves, completely ignore the larger problem, which is the over-comfortable lifestyle of dominant society. Eliminate the need for the energy, and you eliminate the destruction and exploitation of the natural world. But this will not occur; everyone is too comfortable, too distracted, too apathetic. Change will only occur when there is no other choice, and it will be necessarily destructive to the “American” way of life.
Send Protests to…
U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20585, 1-800-342-5363
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Office, 304 Dirksen Senate Building, Washington, DC 20510, Attn: Sen. Bingaman, (202) 224-4971
hey stupid I’m a coal miner that runs heavy equipment not any heavy equipment operator can mine coal it takes experience to mine coal above ground or below. so state me the facts that you have stupid
hey meth head! If you work for a MTR company on an MTR site driving heavy equipment and operating it, guess what? You are anything but a coal miner! Since when does coal mining consist of blasting away mountain tops, scooping the coal up in a bulldozer, and hauling it off in a dump truck? Brainwashed idiots like yourself who call themselves ‘coal miners’ are nothing more then a real joke to a real coal miner. If you wanna mine coal, more power to you, but MTR is NOT mining coal.
out right lie and you know it. Prove i and show me some facts.
“Prove i and show me some facts.”[sic]
I love how you people always demand facts and proof… but all you bring to the table are baseless insults and hollow threats. Why don’t you present an argument with some facts or substance?
never argue with idiots they will bring you down to there level and beat you with experience . Someone wise told me that and I belive it to deffenitly be true
Owned, your government cares not for the environmeny ^^. America, the land of the brave and the free.
If you are against Mountaintop Removal, and would like to see windmill power in West Virginia, raise your hand….All those with their hands raised cant see past their noses….You have to “blast and remove mountaintops” to install the windmills…Isn’t that called…I dont know…”mountaintop removal”?
great point. i am a redneck so no one take it offensivly. All those hicks running gas guzzlers now they comlain bout the mountains…im saddned by the removal of the mountains but people gotta realize its only to feed them all there needs that they wouldnt sacrafice for these hills and neither will the money hungry executives
TIme for West Virginia natives to move to Vermont or New Hampshire..
you people are the most ignorant uneducated people ive ever seen. coal is not going away without a fight,it was put on earth for a reason. im sick as hell of the same old overhead pictures you keep showing of the strip mines that are in progress,not a reclaimed one,why ?scare tactics. when reclaimed these are beautiful useful lands. as far a woody harrilson,hes probably afraid his weed will get blown up in the process.GO COAL
You people are so wrong. Thank God for mountain top removal. The land that it makes is so much more great than what it was before. Development!!!!!!!! Thank God for Mountain top removal The people who made this film, please, come and see the after-life of a mine site, then make your film. NO No you can’t do that because of the beauty and production that it creates. By the way, turn your lights off and sit there for awhile. Fool, you do the math. Stupid is as Stupid does
Look up Stonecrest golf course in prestonsburg Ky. you will see trees growing on a reclaimed strip job. Really
ill guarantee the meth head on here is you marcus. methodicbake works for a mine,they are required to have drug test. bet hes willing to take on,are you. i doubt it.surface blasting is mining whether you or your hippie pals believe it or not, AGAIN ILL ASK, ARE YOU STILL USING ELECTRIC.THOUGHT SO. you and your handfull of treehugging hippies are no doubt the most clueless group on here.
One thought stands out when I ponder the protests against MTR. Having grown up on Coal River in WV, I fear for the local residents who deign to voice opposition to the moneyed coal companies and those who make their living therein. These locals who protest against MTR really are placing themselves in danger, and are very brave souls. My cynical opinion, unfortunately, is that no amount of protest will make a difference.
“Environmental rape” has been going on in the coal fields for nearly a century.