When will it ever end

Our Great State has been the "victim" of many onslaughts waged by Industry Over the years. They always lured us away from the farms and hills by promising a better life and jobs that paid good wages. Offering benefits and packages of benefits that we could not resist if we loved our families.

Steel - Glass - Coal- Timber- Power Generation - you name it.

Yes, West Virginia has always been the place business came to exploit not only our resources but our people. Some would say it is because we are a poor state and region ( and they are partially correct there). It is harder for us ( at least in the past) to organize any resistance to the efforts of Industry to take advantage of our people and resources because of the size of our population, a little more than 1.8 million I believe in our entire state nowadays. There are many cities with larger populations than ours !!

West Virginians are Hard working people, we never have been a people that looked for a handout. We are born of self reliant stock. Mainly German, Irish, Scotts and Native Americans and African Americans who have always had to work for what we have.

So today when I see the waste land that once was wonderful mountains and beautiful forest that have existed since the Pleistocene era and even before.
I wonder When will it end ???

When will we as a people in West Virginia say enough is enough and tell Industry and their Captains to stop Blowing the hell out of Mountains and removing earth that has existed for Millions of Years simply to try and profit from the coal that they now see as the Saviour of our Economy. Which is of course a large Lie in and of itself. Coal can not and will not be the answer to our economic woes. We are destroying our planet by burning it and we are destroying ourselves by using it as well - Mercury Poisoning is the result of Coal Burning.

As I write this Blog the Captains of Industry are exploding somewhere around 2500 tons of explosives EACH DAY in In Appalachia, the equivalent of One Hiroshima Bomb each week !!!!

It brings to my mind that old folk song, How many times must a poor boy cry before you call him a man, Yes and how many Bombs ..... The answer had better not be blowin' in the wind this time my friends !!! For if we do not Stand Up Against the forces of Industry we will no longer have any Mountains and we will no longer be Healthy enough to live any sort of life we would want to. The Mercury produced burining Coal is a Clear and Present Danger to everyones health.

Only Plutonium is rated more dangerous than Mercury to Humans.

To those who believe the "jobs" created by these Mountain Top Removal companies are something we need ?? Well Guess again, when they are done with you and have ripped the tops of the mountains away ( over 500 mountains so far) they will discard you like they have every other worker and town and County in the past.

The Ohio Valley used to be the example of Good Jobs and several Industries like Coal , Steel, Chemicals etc... with Good Paying Jobs !!! Where are we now??

More Walmarts - More Cabellos - More Fast Food and have they (Industry) ever come to your house and even said they are sorry for killing your loved ones that died from Cancers caused by their products ? Have they ever said here is some money to help the survivors of our Pollution maintain their health ?

THE ONLY times they have even come close to this is when they were dragged into court and Forced to do the things they should have done voluntarily if they were good corporate citizens.

As far as them reclaiming the land - HA HA HA HA HA AH if you buy that I have a bridge in Brooklyn I will sell ya !!! Here is an example of what they call reclaiming the land Look Here


Lets not forget what caused the Buffalo Creek disaster in 1972 !! It was Coal Company Greed.

More on Buffalo Creek here


Here is one of my sources in this Blog check it out

Yes and when will it ever end - when will it ever END