The West Virginia Hills

Look what they have done. Evil.

The man holding up the mason jar near the end is holding a jar of his well water.

This matters to us in the Southeastern United States because the headwaters in Appalachia flow down to us and enter our drinking water supplies.

This matters to us because men like Leo Vecellio, Jr. (BOD "13th decision maker" NRP) get rich from this while the rest of us are made to suffer in so many ways.

This matters to us because Natural Resource Partners (NRP) is in our sister county of Jefferson. Vecellio, through WRQ, is pushing to take over Vincent and destroy it for more profit. Maybe he's a few billion short this year for his philanthropic, high-society Palm Beach balls or perhaps the missus needs a bigger yacht.

NRP owns the land that USS Steel gets their coal from; the Oak Grove mine, which was listed at 80-90th percentile for the dirtiest industries on total emissions for 2002 from Source Watch. USS Steel is a BARD member and Bradley client.

April 21, 2010 Federal "blitz" on mines with history of violations, Oak Grove (Alabama) on the list:
MSHA.gov media press

themilitant.com

PDF FILE Feb 21, 2010: "unwarrantable failures, reckless disregard...will result in the injury or illness of a reasonably serious nature":

FMSHRC.gov

How men like this sleep at night we will never understand...

Note that the forest geologist from the PBS clip says it will take "hundreds of thousands of years" for the soil to return to what it was and support the growth that was there.

WRQ and Vincent Industrial Board member (and ambulance chaser lawyer) Marsh Acker would have us believe in Vincent that a reclamation bond will make it "okay" for hundreds of tons of Vincent to be yanked from the ground by White Rock Quarries.
 

Lip stick on a corpse is what that reclamation bond really means.