Strip mining down Streem

[Hill Boy]

Just ask this west Virginia Man
about Strip mining,seeing his property destroyed.

[private eye]

stripmining and logging is destroying McDowell county

[By God Va]

private eye wrote:

stripmining and logging is destroying McDowell county

Yes so true' and nobody seems to give a hoot. The people that's
doing the strip mining and tembering most of which don't live in McDowell County and the owners are from out of stete, they employee a few people from the area and rap the land giving little or nothing back/ Law makers in Charleston or the big winners taking payoffs frome Timbering and Mining Lobbyist giving them permites to destroy mcDowell County.

[get a clue]

By God Va wrote:

<quoted text>
Yes so true' and nobody seems to give a hoot. The people that's
doing the strip mining and tembering most of which don't live in McDowell County and the owners are from out of stete, they employee a few people from the area and rap the land giving little or nothing back/ Law makers in Charleston or the big winners taking payoffs frome Timbering and Mining Lobbyist giving them permites to destroy mcDowell County.

I think that you all need to get a clue.. Timbering is doing more damage than what strip mining is.. If it weren't for mining WV would be a deserted place let along the nation would be in worse shape.. however Obama is doing all that he can do to destroy everything!!!!

[By God W Va]

get a clue wrote:

<quoted text>I think that you all need to get a clue.. Timbering is doing more damage than what strip mining is.. If it weren't for mining WV would be a deserted place let along the nation would be in worse shape.. however Obama is doing all that he can do to destroy everything!!!!

Be for real OBAMA every thing wrong, he has been President for less than a year, and before him all was well so you say, You are a stupit Rases, just the king of person those rich out of state
strip miners like, Keep the poor white fighting agance the poor
blacks, whild they rape the county, how meny people from McDowell
county work in the strip mines very few, do they give your dum ass
health insuarence (no) wake up take a good look around you,

[Mac]

Hill Boy wrote:

Just ask this west Virginia Man
about Strip mining,seeing his property destroyed.

Where In WV., Does he live?

[Mac]

private eye wrote:

stripmining and logging is destroying McDowell county

People can leave McDowell County...Just move away.

[teresa]

I WOULD LIKE TO REMARK ON THE COMMENT OF STRIP MINING. MY HUSBAND WORKS FOR A STRIPOP MINING COMPANY AND YES HE HAS A MEDICAL CARD AND A 401 K PLAN AND A DENTAL AND VISION PLAN. GETS PAID TOP DOLLAR JUST LIKE A COAL MINER. I LOVE THESE PEOPLE THAT GET ON HERE AND TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT THEY DON'T KNOW ABOUT. AND YES LOGGING DOES DO ALOT MORE DAMAGE THAN STRIPPING DOES. LOGGING DOES NOTHING WHEN THEY ARE FINISHED LOGGING. STRIP MINES PLANTS BACK TREES AND GRASS SOME EVEN MAKE THE VIEW BETTER. HAVE YOU EVERSTOPPED AND REALLY LOOKED AT A SPOT AFTER THEY HAVE FINISHED WITH A JOB AND PLANTED BACK THE TREES AND ALL IT REALLY IS PRETTY. TAKE A GOOD LOOK AROUND SOME THINGS ARE NOT AS THEY SEEM. SOME PEOPLE FORGET THAT MINING FED THEM AS KIDS, NOW STRIP MINING IS FEEDIND MY KIDS AND I'M NOT SORRY FOR THIS IT PAYS MY BILLS AND IT'S AN HONEST LIVING. PEOPLE ALWAYS HAVE A NEGATIVE LOOK ON THINGS IN MCDOWELL. PEOPLE THIS IS ALL WE HAVE [MINING,STRIP MINING, AND THE RAILROADS] THIS IS ALL OF THE BIG PAYING JOBS IN MCDOWELL. PEOPLE THAT DON'T EVEN LIVE HERE ARE BAD ENOUGH LET ALONE OUR OWN DOWNING OUR JOBS. THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME HAVE AN OPION.

[Sherri]

there was suppose to have been a lawsuit against the coal co. and timber co. anything come of it?I heard some people were starting to get paid here in the county.

[Sherri]

teresa wrote:

I WOULD LIKE TO REMARK ON THE COMMENT OF STRIP MINING. MY HUSBAND WORKS FOR A STRIPOP MINING COMPANY AND YES HE HAS A MEDICAL CARD AND A 401 K PLAN AND A DENTAL AND VISION PLAN. GETS PAID TOP DOLLAR JUST LIKE A COAL MINER. I LOVE THESE PEOPLE THAT GET ON HERE AND TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT THEY DON'T KNOW ABOUT. AND YES LOGGING DOES DO ALOT MORE DAMAGE THAN STRIPPING DOES. LOGGING DOES NOTHING WHEN THEY ARE FINISHED LOGGING. STRIP MINES PLANTS BACK TREES AND GRASS SOME EVEN MAKE THE VIEW BETTER. HAVE YOU EVERSTOPPED AND REALLY LOOKED AT A SPOT AFTER THEY HAVE FINISHED WITH A JOB AND PLANTED BACK THE TREES AND ALL IT REALLY IS PRETTY. TAKE A GOOD LOOK AROUND SOME THINGS ARE NOT AS THEY SEEM. SOME PEOPLE FORGET THAT MINING FED THEM AS KIDS, NOW STRIP MINING IS FEEDIND MY KIDS AND I'M NOT SORRY FOR THIS IT PAYS MY BILLS AND IT'S AN HONEST LIVING. PEOPLE ALWAYS HAVE A NEGATIVE LOOK ON THINGS IN MCDOWELL. PEOPLE THIS IS ALL WE HAVE [MINING,STRIP MINING, AND THE RAILROADS] THIS IS ALL OF THE BIG PAYING JOBS IN MCDOWELL. PEOPLE THAT DON'T EVEN LIVE HERE ARE BAD ENOUGH LET ALONE OUR OWN DOWNING OUR JOBS. THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME HAVE AN OPION.

of course you're going to uphold the strip mines as your husband works for one .we need to do away with the strip mines our mountains look awful from these companies coming in here just to make a few dollars then leaving a big mess behind.I say go wind power!coal is nasty!

[Former McDowell Resident]

teresa wrote:

I WOULD LIKE TO REMARK ON THE COMMENT OF STRIP MINING. MY HUSBAND WORKS FOR A STRIPOP MINING COMPANY AND YES HE HAS A MEDICAL CARD AND A 401 K PLAN AND A DENTAL AND VISION PLAN. GETS PAID TOP DOLLAR JUST LIKE A COAL MINER. I LOVE THESE PEOPLE THAT GET ON HERE AND TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT THEY DON'T KNOW ABOUT. AND YES LOGGING DOES DO ALOT MORE DAMAGE THAN STRIPPING DOES. LOGGING DOES NOTHING WHEN THEY ARE FINISHED LOGGING. STRIP MINES PLANTS BACK TREES AND GRASS SOME EVEN MAKE THE VIEW BETTER. HAVE YOU EVERSTOPPED AND REALLY LOOKED AT A SPOT AFTER THEY HAVE FINISHED WITH A JOB AND PLANTED BACK THE TREES AND ALL IT REALLY IS PRETTY. TAKE A GOOD LOOK AROUND SOME THINGS ARE NOT AS THEY SEEM. SOME PEOPLE FORGET THAT MINING FED THEM AS KIDS, NOW STRIP MINING IS FEEDIND MY KIDS AND I'M NOT SORRY FOR THIS IT PAYS MY BILLS AND IT'S AN HONEST LIVING. PEOPLE ALWAYS HAVE A NEGATIVE LOOK ON THINGS IN MCDOWELL. PEOPLE THIS IS ALL WE HAVE [MINING,STRIP MINING, AND THE RAILROADS] THIS IS ALL OF THE BIG PAYING JOBS IN MCDOWELL. PEOPLE THAT DON'T EVEN LIVE HERE ARE BAD ENOUGH LET ALONE OUR OWN DOWNING OUR JOBS. THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME HAVE AN OPION.

I hope you live where the water is unaffected and he will retire in 20 years or less unless you're willing to move. According to some sources, the coal from this type of mining will be mostly done within 2 decades unless they go for the lower quality seams.

What is Mountaintop Removal?
Mountaintop removal is a relatively new type of coal mining that began in Appalachia in the 1970s as an extension of conventional strip mining techniques. Primarily, mountaintop removal is occurring in West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia and Tennessee. Coal companies in Appalachia are increasingly using this method because it allows for almost complete recovery of coal seams while reducing the number of workers required to a fraction of what conventional methods require.

The US Environmental Protection Agency defines mountaintop removal as follows:

“Mountaintop removal/valley fill is a mining practice where the tops of mountains are removed, exposing the seams of coal. Mountaintop removal can involve removing 500 feet or more of the summit to get at buried seams of coal. The earth from the mountaintop is then dumped in the neighboring valleys.”

There are 6 main components of the mountaintop removal process:

http://www.ilovemountains.org/resources

[get a clue]

By God W Va wrote:

<quoted text>
Be for real OBAMA every thing wrong, he has been President for less than a year, and before him all was well so you say, You are a stupit Rases, just the king of person those rich out of state
strip miners like, Keep the poor white fighting agance the poor
blacks, whild they rape the county, how meny people from McDowell
county work in the strip mines very few, do they give your dum ass
health insuarence (no) wake up take a good look around you,

Usually I don't reply back to ignorant remarks such as yours, but pretty much everything that you have typed is pretty much ignorant(Probably stems from a low IQ such as yours)First off, I don't feel that President Bush actually done that great of a job. The only thing that he was concerned with was finishing the war in which his dad started.. And if you would ever read any statistics there are a very large number of people in McDowell County that work on surface mines. And as for Me!!!(The dum a**) well I'm not bragging I am very fortunate and thank God every day to be able to provide a GOOD living for my family and guess what... I do have insurance Which is provided by the company unlike the state. And as for trying to twist things with a person not agreeing with Obama, Quit trying to play the racist card, it's childish and pathetic. If you would have enough common sense to look at what the Cap and Trade would do. Especially to the older people that are on a fixed income that are already having it hard to even afford their medicine to try to survive, then I would hope that you could at least look at it from another point of view. But I doubt that you would. I know your kind!!!!!!!!!!

[Former McDowell Resident]

How does mountaintop removal affect the economy?
Mountaintop removal is a mining technique designed, from the very start, to take the labor force out of the mining operation. According to the bureau of labor statistics, in the early 1950’s there were between 125,000 and 145,000 miners employed in West Virginia; in 2004 there were just over 16,000. During that time, coal production increased. In addition, the coal-bearing counties of Appalachia are some of the poorest in the nation, despite the fact that some of the greatest wealth is being extracted from them.

From that same link above.

[Hill Boy]

Hill Boy wrote:

Just ask this west Virginia Man
about Strip mining,seeing his property destroyed.

Good News:(MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL) The U.S.E.P.A. held up (79)
mining permits in WV and three other states for additional review.
E.P A. announced plans to revoke issued permit for Appalachia power
mountaintop removal sites,The Man in the picture is in Kirkendoll
County.

[Mac]

Hill Boy wrote:

Just ask this west Virginia Man
about Strip mining,seeing his property destroyed.

Looks like he never does mow the lawn or Cut the Weeds.

[Mac]

I forgot to ask..Isn't Streem spelled Stream????

I'd like to have a school teacher to answer my question please...

If NO teacher, then anyone can answer..

[Hill Boy]

get a clue wrote:

<quoted text>Usually I don't reply back to ignorant remarks such as yours, but pretty much everything that you have typed is pretty much ignorant(Probably stems from a low IQ such as yours)First off, I don't feel that President Bush actually done that great of a job. The only thing that he was concerned with was finishing the war in which his dad started.. And if you would ever read any statistics there are a very large number of people in McDowell County that work on surface mines. And as for Me!!!(The dum a**) well I'm not bragging I am very fortunate and thank God every day to be able to provide a GOOD

living for my family and guess what... I do have insurance Which is provided by the company unlike the state. And as for trying to twist things with a person not agreeing with Obama, Quit trying to play the racist card, it's childish and pathetic. If you would have enough common sense to look at what the Cap and Trade would do. Especially to the older people that are on a fixed income that are already having it hard to even afford their medicine to try to survive, then I would hope that you could at least look at it from another point of view. But I doubt that you would. I know your kind!!!!!!!!!!

The U.S.E.P A. see things like I do Ignorant you shore are, if stupit people like you would back our president, you would not have to werry about affording there medicines.

[get a clue]

Hill Boy wrote:

<quoted text>
The U.S.E.P A. see things like I do Ignorant you shore are, if stupit people like you would back our president, you would not have to werry about affording there medicines.

You might want to proof read what you type. It makes you seem like your a dumb....! And if you could comprehend what you read, You would know that I wasn't talking about me affording medicine, I was talking about the older generation people that are on a fixed income. GET A CLUE !!!!!! I feel sorry for people like you. And I would just about bet that you're on a check and the state supports you !!!!!!!!!

[Hill Boy]

get a clue wrote:

<quoted text>You might want to proof read what you type. It makes you seem like your a dumb....! And if you could comprehend what you read, You would know that I wasn't talking about me affording medicine, I was talking about the older generation people that are on a fixed income. GET A CLUE !!!!!! I feel sorry for people like you. And I would just about bet that you're on a check and the state supports you !!!!!!!!!

I see that you understood what I was saying (bicXh) I worked for over 40 years before retiring 15 of those years was in the mines
in McDowell County, I payed into the system that is now giving me some of my money back, the state or goverment in not giving me anything/I payed to play- what about you. Bitxh.understand that.

(YES WE CAN) You understand that.