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"The problem is, that we've destroyed over four
hundred thousand acres of mountains and
valleys in West Virginia, and that
is a direct connection to our
history and our culture, and our
heritage.
If Bush has his way, this will
all be gone."
"In it's effort to appease the coal companies and allow them to continue mountain top removal mining,
the Bush administration is throwing out protections for waters nationwide and
will allow them to be buried by industrial wastes from coast to coast."
"With a mountaintop removal,
the first thing that happens is they go out on the mountain, and they timber,
they remove all the timber from the top of the mountain. Well you depend on
the roots of the trees to hold the water back when you have a heavy rain.
And theres a trailer that
sat here and the water
and the water got up deep
in the trailer, and the trailer
just moved out recently, and the
house there, the
the water got up so high there, that it destroyed the foundation
in the back of the house and the mud throughout the house was ankle deep."
"This is the worse change as we made to the Clean Water Act in
thirty years. The goal of the Clean Water Act is to protect waters the Bush
administration rule will destroy them."
"The people in the coal fields
are living in war zones."
"I'm just really angry, and I
think our government needs to make the industry mind the coal both legally and
responsibly. "