| # | Name | Comments |
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| 151 | Dawna K. Sauls | |
| 152 | Katherine Priest | I have lived in Virginia and West Virginia all my life. I just finished watching a documentry about the Coal industry in West Virginia and I am sickened. Our precious land and people are being raped by big business. Its shameful. I am embarrassed that our leaders have allowed this, and promoted it. |
| 153 | Briana Williams | |
| 154 | Briana Williams | |
| 155 | Mike Pridemore | |
| 156 | Lisa deGruyter | |
| 157 | B.J. Gudmundsson | |
| 158 | Anonymous | |
| 159 | Barbara Miller | We''re working to stop mountain top removal mining in our own town as Continental Brick, owned by Imperial Coal is looking to extract over 9 million tons of shale from our mountain here in Gerrardstown, WV. Until this happened here, I'll admit that I had no idea about MTM or how crooked our state is. We have to keep raising our voices with the DEP and with state and federal government agencies to stop this practice once and for all. |
| 160 | Anonymous | Feb? So why wasn't this passed around more?
We called the EPA twice in 2005-6 about dumping in Spring Creek. The federal hotline had someone concerned and caring...and they tried to send someone right away.
The local guy that finally showed up days later totally blew me off as an ignorant woman with some buddy he dragged along (I felt like they got paid to show up and that was all). Second time my husband called...and the guy that came out, showed up but didn't even look around.
No one tested anything or investigated anything.
Now why would CAT barrels be hauled in every Friday night so heavy it took 3 guys to unload them...and then hauled away at daybreak Monday morning so light one guy could lift them back into the truck?
EPA would never show up between Friday and Monday. Fortunately, a lifelong local got mad about something and within a couple of weeks, the operation moved on. They dumped for over a year. And we couldn't get any more response than a cursory pitstop.
I don't think you need much of an investigation as to the WHY we have violations. Are all government agencies corrupt in WV?! Our decade of experience would easily support such an accusation. |
| 161 | Linda Sodaro | |
| 162 | Ronnie Belcher | |
| 163 | Michael Brandon Dillon | You know Massey has the money to cover all this up. It doesn't take an "expert" to know that what they are doing is wrong. |
| 164 | Daniel Chiotos | |
| 165 | tina davis | To day I live in alexandria louisanna I've copied the petition and hoping I can get to our mayor to see if his is aware that cleco is purchasing coal from a company that engages in MTR. my pray is that he'll find another company to purchase our energy sources. And I also pray for my fellow west Virginians and family that is greatly effected by this horrifying crime of removing our mountains and polluting our water. deeply loving the mountains and you. Tina Davis |
| 166 | Pamela Bailey | I live remotely in MS at this time, but have property in WV. I am very concerned about the destruction caused by mountain top removal. I work as a research botanist for the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center. |
| 167 | Dan Taylor | |
| 168 | Donna Ronk | |
| 169 | Charles R Morris | |
| 170 | Dan R. Goins | |
| 171 | Charles Rollin Morris | Let's stop this abominaion! What happened to the government of the people, for the people and by the people? Who gave these giant mining corporations the right to destroy our environment, our health, the air that we breath, our forests, vegetation and animal life, our streams. our water wells, our beautiful mountains and our homes?
Our forfathers with great sacrifice and hardship settled this land when it was a wilderness and a hostile environment fighting the indians and wild animals, clearing the land, building cabins from logs, surviving on berrys and green vegitation from the forest, a few domesticated animals brought with them, digging a garden for crops out of a rocky hillside to feed themselfs and their animals with hard labor and antiquated tools. With the promise that the land would be theirs to hand down to their children for all generations to come.
I am the GGG Grandson of william Morris Sr. who was the first permanent white settler in the Kanawha Valley and have plenty of history behind me to know the sacrifices of these early pioneers, and it seems to me that the sacrifices of the children has not ended. After acres & acres of land grabbing our family still own about fifty acres of land on Big Coal River in Boone County which is being devastated by mining operations. |