Democracy Now: Amy Goodman & leading activist discuss the fight against mountaintop coal removal

[Turborama]

Run time: 10:51 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoNc0Y78MnA   Posted on YouTube: April 09, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: April 10, 2009 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 600

 
The Environmental Protection Agency recently dealt a blow to the coal mining industry when it delayed hundreds of mountaintop coal mining projects for a new review of their environmental impact. But the EPA decision still leaves in place hundreds of existing permits for mountaintop removal. The group Climate Ground Zero has been leading protests and peaceful direct actions against the company Massey Energy to prevent mountaintop removal at Coal River Mountain in West Virginia. We speak with leading activist Mike Roselle of Climate Ground Zero.

[pnorman]

1. No sooner did I send that YouTube clip to my friend, but it was taken down!

But here it is at democracy Now!: http://www.democracynow.org/2009/4/8/the_struggle_against_mountaintop_removal_leading

My friend, a Union Brother, lives in W. VA, and is active in opposing mountaintop removal there.

pnorman

[Turborama]

2. It's still there, man...

Sometimes YouTube says "video not available" even though it is, a refresh usually proves this. Is that the message you got?

[pnorman]

3. Yeah, that's the message I got.

Thanks for the explanation. I guess I was a little paranoid (but who here isn't, after 8 loooong years of Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Abrmoff, and Halliburton!)

pnorman