Comments for STOP Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining http://endmtr.com Working to 'Write' a Wrong Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:40:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Coal Keeps The Lights On by Linda Vannatter~Nelson http://endmtr.com/2008/03/24/coal-keeps-the-lights-on/comment-page-1/#comment-838 Linda Vannatter~Nelson Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:40:28 +0000 http://endmtr.com/?p=42#comment-838 And you know what the really sad part is Denny?...We don't have to "picture this." Everyday is a living reminder of all our yesterdays. Everyday we see bits & pieces of our traditions & our heritage being "stripped" away. We need to take all the pictures we can of the things we never dreamed we would have to. I seriously wonder if our childrens children, will ever get to feel the dirt road beneath their bare feet as they walk up a holler, {hollow}. Will there even be any "hollers" by then? I seriously wonder alot of things as I witness my past, my present, & my future tumble to the ground all around me. Forever gone. I hate Mountain Top Removal & everything it thinks it stands for. Absolutely no good will ever come from it. My dad dug coal. He gave us values & traditions without blowing our heritage up to get it. My definition of a "coal miner" is a person underground, surrounded by low places, just 6 inches from hell. I'm a "real" coal miners daughter. And proud of it. And you know what the really sad part is Denny?…We don’t have to “picture this.” Everyday is a living reminder of all our yesterdays. Everyday we see bits & pieces of our traditions & our heritage being “stripped” away. We need to take all the pictures we can of the things we never dreamed we would have to. I seriously wonder if our childrens children, will ever get to feel the dirt road beneath their bare feet as they walk up a holler, {hollow}. Will there even be any “hollers” by then? I seriously wonder alot of things as I witness my past, my present, & my future tumble to the ground all around me. Forever gone.
I hate Mountain Top Removal & everything it thinks it stands for. Absolutely no good will ever come from it.
My dad dug coal. He gave us values & traditions without blowing our heritage up to get it.
My definition of a “coal miner” is a person underground, surrounded by low places, just 6 inches from hell.
I’m a “real” coal miners daughter. And proud of it.

]]> Comment on Coal Keeps The Lights On by Denny http://endmtr.com/2008/03/24/coal-keeps-the-lights-on/comment-page-1/#comment-837 Denny Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:10:16 +0000 http://endmtr.com/?p=42#comment-837 You know what - don't come here preaching your coal keeps the lights on crap to me. For your information I don't have to come to Appalachia, I live here already AND I have a mountaintop removal site for a neighbor. Maybe coal does keep the lights on but only about 5% of the coal that keeps the lights on comes from mountaintop removal coal mining. I have seen the struggles brought on the people of Appalachia usually brought on them by the coal industry. I was born and raised here to. You can't justify mountaintop removal with jobs. Mountaintop removal destroys any chance for long term growth while destroying the mountains heaping ever more hardships on the people of Appalachia. This is not a blog against coal - this is a blog against mountaintop removal coal mining. I'm getting pretty damn sick and tired of you pro-mountaintop removal folks insinuating that those of us fighting the destruction to our homes via mountaintop removal are fighting a battle against coal. That couldn't be further from the truth. I've said it before and I'll say it one last time - I wouldn't give a damn if you were blowing up the mountains for earth worms. Mountaintop removal is destroying everything we as Appalachians value, our mountains. There are a lot less destructive methods of mining coal than simply blowing off the tops of the mountains. BTW - Obama lover? That couldn't be further from the truth either. You know what – don’t come here preaching your coal keeps the lights on crap to me. For your information I don’t have to come to Appalachia, I live here already AND I have a mountaintop removal site for a neighbor.

Maybe coal does keep the lights on but only about 5% of the coal that keeps the lights on comes from mountaintop removal coal mining. I have seen the struggles brought on the people of Appalachia usually brought on them by the coal industry. I was born and raised here to. You can’t justify mountaintop removal with jobs. Mountaintop removal destroys any chance for long term growth while destroying the mountains heaping ever more hardships on the people of Appalachia.

This is not a blog against coal – this is a blog against mountaintop removal coal mining. I’m getting pretty damn sick and tired of you pro-mountaintop removal folks insinuating that those of us fighting the destruction to our homes via mountaintop removal are fighting a battle against coal. That couldn’t be further from the truth. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it one last time – I wouldn’t give a damn if you were blowing up the mountains for earth worms. Mountaintop removal is destroying everything we as Appalachians value, our mountains.

There are a lot less destructive methods of mining coal than simply blowing off the tops of the mountains.

BTW – Obama lover? That couldn’t be further from the truth either.

]]> Comment on Coal Keeps The Lights On by Crystal http://endmtr.com/2008/03/24/coal-keeps-the-lights-on/comment-page-1/#comment-836 Crystal Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:41:44 +0000 http://endmtr.com/?p=42#comment-836 You know what - perhaps if you spent a good month in the Appalachian mountains and saw the struggles that people go through then you would change your story. People seem to ooh and aaah at the beauty of the mountains. Naturally - they are God's great beauty. But how many in America would give up their plumbing, Starbucks, and easy life to live the rough life of the Appalachians. I was born and raised in Eastern KY. I felt the blasts of the coals mines all my life. Yes - it is shame...however this is the ONLY WORK SOURCE of INCOME for the people of Eastern KY and West Virgina. If it were NOT for Coal, you would not be using your nice electric right now. MOST people in America have NO CLUE and judge the Appalachian people as ignorant and inbreed morons. STOP Judging and see the TRUTH. Coal does KEEP the LIGHTS on. Perhaps if YOU and lovely Liberal OBAMA LOVERS would give more resources to the people of Eastern KY and West Virgina, we could have less people on Government funding, cleaner and safer environment. Until then - DEAL with it and continue to Use America's cheap resource. You know what – perhaps if you spent a good month in the Appalachian mountains and saw the struggles that people go through then you would change your story. People seem to ooh and aaah at the beauty of the mountains. Naturally – they are God’s great beauty. But how many in America would give up their plumbing, Starbucks, and easy life to live the rough life of the Appalachians. I was born and raised in Eastern KY. I felt the blasts of the coals mines all my life. Yes – it is shame…however this is the ONLY WORK SOURCE of INCOME for the people of Eastern KY and West Virgina. If it were NOT for Coal, you would not be using your nice electric right now. MOST people in America have NO CLUE and judge the Appalachian people as ignorant and inbreed morons. STOP Judging and see the TRUTH. Coal does KEEP the LIGHTS on. Perhaps if YOU and lovely Liberal OBAMA LOVERS would give more resources to the people of Eastern KY and West Virgina, we could have less people on Government funding, cleaner and safer environment. Until then – DEAL with it and continue to Use America’s cheap resource.

]]> Comment on Boycott the Logan Banner!! by Willa Shaffer http://endmtr.com/2010/03/04/boycott-the-logan-banner/comment-page-1/#comment-835 Willa Shaffer Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:14:16 +0000 http://endmtr.com/?p=2640#comment-835 Thank you, Mr. Tyler. I've just read the article to which you've responded so beautifully, left my comment noting the utter lack of any journalistic integrity, and then found your response. I trust this was sent to the Logan Banner. Thanks to Vernon Haltom for a heads-up about the boycott "poll"...at the moment it is 60/40 in favor of NON-support of such a boycott. I wish they'd add a place to vote on boycotting the Logan Banner itself! Thank you, Mr. Tyler. I’ve just read the article to which you’ve responded so beautifully, left my comment noting the utter lack of any journalistic integrity, and then found your response. I trust this was sent to the Logan Banner.

Thanks to Vernon Haltom for a heads-up about the boycott “poll”…at the moment it is 60/40 in favor of NON-support of such a boycott. I wish they’d add a place to vote on boycotting the Logan Banner itself!

]]> Comment on Boycott the Logan Banner!! by Vernon Haltom http://endmtr.com/2010/03/04/boycott-the-logan-banner/comment-page-1/#comment-830 Vernon Haltom Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:42:15 +0000 http://endmtr.com/?p=2640#comment-830 If you don't mind the stench, you can go to the logan banner's website at www.loganbanner.com just long enough to vote NO in their poll--"Would you boycott bla bla bla" If you don’t mind the stench, you can go to the logan banner’s website at http://www.loganbanner.com just long enough to vote NO in their poll–”Would you boycott bla bla bla”

]]> Comment on Mountaintop Removal Good For The Environment?? by Denny http://endmtr.com/2010/02/18/mountaintop-removal-good-for-the-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-829 Denny Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:43:43 +0000 http://endmtr.com/?p=2510#comment-829 Thanks for the heads-up April. I will definitely be paying attention with great interest and I do hope to see "reasonable people prevail". Thanks for the heads-up April.

I will definitely be paying attention with great interest and I do hope to see “reasonable people prevail”.

]]> Comment on Mountaintop Removal Good For The Environment?? by April Eidson http://endmtr.com/2010/02/18/mountaintop-removal-good-for-the-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-828 April Eidson Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:16:54 +0000 http://endmtr.com/?p=2510#comment-828 PG Agreed, he has no real education base, and morality has served him well in THE FAMILY at C-Street. Sorry, but I want someone representing me that is not a source of embarassment on a regular basis. Ney Ney, will Washington Wamp be governor of Tennessee, just pay attention my friend and watch resonable people prevail over zealot behavior. PG Agreed, he has no real education base, and morality has served him well in THE FAMILY at C-Street. Sorry, but I want someone representing me that is not a source of embarassment on a regular basis. Ney Ney, will Washington Wamp be governor of Tennessee, just pay attention my friend and watch resonable people prevail over zealot behavior.

]]> Comment on Boycott the Logan Banner!! by litobrancha http://endmtr.com/2010/03/04/boycott-the-logan-banner/comment-page-1/#comment-827 litobrancha Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:09:26 +0000 http://endmtr.com/?p=2640#comment-827 Denny I hope y'all send them a copy of this post. I couldn't believe the stupid that dripped off the page when I read that editorial earlier today, but it was so hatefully dumb that I had to look away. Thank you for suffering these fools long enough to expose the fallacies and falsehoods that support their imaginary reality. Matthew hits it on the head, this is fearmongering at it's most ignorant. The itchy rash in the seam of the dirty diaper. Bless you friend! Denny I hope y’all send them a copy of this post. I couldn’t believe the stupid that dripped off the page when I read that editorial earlier today, but it was so hatefully dumb that I had to look away. Thank you for suffering these fools long enough to expose the fallacies and falsehoods that support their imaginary reality.

Matthew hits it on the head, this is fearmongering at it’s most ignorant. The itchy rash in the seam of the dirty diaper. Bless you friend!

]]> Comment on Boycott the Logan Banner!! by Matthew Burns http://endmtr.com/2010/03/04/boycott-the-logan-banner/comment-page-1/#comment-826 Matthew Burns Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:56:15 +0000 http://endmtr.com/?p=2640#comment-826 Thank you Denny for setting the record straight on this Logan Banner editorial! Perhaps Joe Manchin needs but to look at the Logan Banner to fulfill his promise to diffuse the powderkeg that is the coalfields. It appears they, and the coal association, are the culprits that are spewing disinformation,hate and fear among the people! Thank you Denny for setting the record straight on this Logan Banner editorial!

Perhaps Joe Manchin needs but to look at the Logan Banner to fulfill his promise to diffuse the powderkeg that is the coalfields. It appears they, and the coal association, are the culprits that are spewing disinformation,hate and fear among the people!

]]> Comment on Mountaintop Removal Good For The Environment?? by pg http://endmtr.com/2010/02/18/mountaintop-removal-good-for-the-environment/comment-page-1/#comment-825 pg Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:24:30 +0000 http://endmtr.com/?p=2510#comment-825 Zach is not really an "educated idiot". His morality requires belief, not knowledge. Zach is not really an “educated idiot”. His morality requires belief, not knowledge.

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