Comments on: Tree sit deters blasting, enters second day at Massey Edwight Mine

By: GIG

GIG — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:09:26 +0000

Are you guys from climate ground zero coming to the friends of america rally ? Hope to see you there Come on down

By: Bubba Green

Bubba Green — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:37:57 +0000

I’ll get my coondogs and we’ll go hunting…..hey bubba, we’ve tree’d a couple odd ones…sickem boys…so we can skin um’

By: Progress Miner

Progress Miner — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:40:37 +0000

This is a sincere question, what would you do in the case of imminent domain?

By: sknodole

sknodole — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:42:16 +0000

Some of the laws of man are bad laws that protect the few at the expense of the many. I don’t know the laws of WV, but God’s law states that we should be loving stewards of our planet. Blasting the top off of a mountain, endangering a school full of children and entire communities for corporate profits- even if the “law” allows this to happen it’s not ethical or moral and ita crime against Spirit.
Massey is motivated to use this method because our economic structure and laws work together to allow the company to externalize all of the negative impacts of its actions. For them it’s about the efficiency of getting the coal out and making the highest possible short run profit. If Massey had to actually pay to clean up the mess it creates, or pay liability insurance that would inhibit the attrativeness of this highly risky method, they wouldn’t be doing it. This is the legacy of unbridled regulation from the Bush era and the revolving door between industry and our regulatory agencies. In other words: back room deals to allow corporateers to rape and pillage our natural resources without regard for the effects on local residents or future generations in oder to create huge investor profits. People profitting from this are removed from the very real effects of their greed. They know not what they do, although, some of them do . . . I liked what Jane said about it above . . .

By: Watcher

Watcher — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 13:29:33 +0000

Guin I guess I dont understand “activists”, You say your not good with leaders, your obviosly not good with obeying the laws of this state either. I suggest you follow the lead of the “tea party” folks if you want to affect change insted of endangering the lives of workers,as well as activists by tresspasing into dangerous mine sites .

By: Cascadia

Cascadia — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:20:16 +0000

Cascadia sends love and support for the sitters!

I like that posters here are squabbling over whether or not wildlife has been seen in a mountain top removal site as if hurricane Catrina victims visiting the rubble that once was a home is proof that nothing bad happened.

Keep the sits up until Massey leaves!

By: Progress Miner

Progress Miner — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:24:49 +0000

admin really your not making sense I seen 8 bears walking eating and even playing near our mindsite. Also there were 13 deer running and eating in a reclaimed section of our site. Do I have prrof or a photo? No. Take my word for it. Oh and there are even rattlesnakes and copperheads too, and pigeons, mice. The only thing that I see is someone saving a tree but using plywood as a base? How noble is that?

By: Watcher

Watcher — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:28:41 +0000

Admin……. Isnt that the whole point of the treesit, to be inside the blast zone ? With an excavator working (close) by and theirs still wildlife.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:29:09 +0000

Watcher, they’re just outside the edge of the mine site. Of course a desolate war zone-like swath of land will be devoid of life, but the trees outside it will harbor not only the wildlife that was amongst the trees before the mine, but also all the wildlife that was pushed off the land where the mine now is.

By: Watcher

Watcher — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:56:47 +0000

Latest from the treesitters………..I have a chipmunk friend and theirs a momma bear and her cubs??? I was under the impression these mine sites were devoid of wild life.