Kathy Mattea joins Al Gore and anti coal crowd.

CoolBreeze · Post by **CoolBreeze** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:33 am

Grammy Award-winning country music star Kathy Mattea is joining the fight over mountaintop removal coal mining. The Cross Lanes native is also speaking out about climate change, throwing herself into two of the biggest environmental controversies facing her home state.

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Mattea has been trained to deliver Al Goreâ€™s now-famous climate change slide show, and has been giving the presentation over the last few months.

Next month, Mattea plans to take a flyover of the southern coalfields and visit Kayford Mountain near Cabin Creek to see mountaintop removal sites. On Wednesday, the Sierra Club began promoting that visit.

http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/2007062715

Arp2 · Post by **Arp2** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:34 am

Well, if her career weren't considered over already,......

Hoosier Daddy · Post by **Hoosier Daddy** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:42 am

Arp2 wrote:Well, if her career weren't considered over already,......

My thoughts exactly ...

Dave Allen · Post by **Dave Allen** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 1:50 pm

Shut up and sing!

fearpeddler · Post by **fearpeddler** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:07 pm

hell with mountaintop removal, coal great, but new flood plains arent...

Jay Nunley · Post by **Jay Nunley** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:23 pm

It isn't strip mining that's a problem. It's the scale of the operation that is the problem. If you limit the acreage per square mile strips can be done and rotate the sites the land can be reclaimed and the level of damage to water tables. streams, valleys, and living space is acceptable.

This is coming from a guy who despises King Coal and wanted strip mining banned completely. I still hate King Coal, but I also recognize we must get the coal out of the ground. It can be done without turning the coalfields into a marsh/desert and without destroying entire communities.

It won't be that way, but it could be.

SPIKE NESMITH! · Post by **SPIKE NESMITH!** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 3:49 pm

And I thought he was a merry old soul. Shows what I know on the subject.

CoolBreeze · Post by **CoolBreeze** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:24 pm

Jay Nunley wrote: I still hate King Coal, but I also recognize we must get the coal out of the ground. It can be done without turning the coalfields into a marsh/desert and without destroying entire communities.

It won't be that way, but it could be.

I think a second look is necessary:

http://www.mywvhome.com/mountaintop.htm

Zak Tyler · Post by **Zak Tyler** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:41 pm

CoolBreeze wrote:
Jay Nunley wrote: I still hate King Coal, but I also recognize we must get the coal out of the ground. It can be done without turning the coalfields into a marsh/desert and without destroying entire communities.

It won't be that way, but it could be.
I think a second look is necessary:

http://www.mywvhome.com/mountaintop.htm

YEAH!!!!

what he said...

ditto that....

i concur....

and stuff!

Dave Allen · Post by **Dave Allen** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:47 pm

Excellent photos of the good that can come from mountaintop removal. If done right (which the government damn near mandates you do these days..which is a good thing) the land is actually BETTER than when it was mined.

Big Media · Post by **Big Media** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:44 pm

Good job on the site, Jerry. I consider myself a democrat but an environmentalist I am not.

Cool wrote:Grammy Award-winning country music star Kathy Mattea...

What possible reason could there have been to give her a damn Grammy? She's washed up and she'll never have a top 40 song again.

FearPeddler, LOL on the avatar!

Cameron · Post by **Cameron** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 8:23 am

CoolBreeze wrote: I think a second look is necessary:

http://www.mywvhome.com/mountaintop.htm

So did Disney buy the 2014 option on the Cabin Creek land?

CoolBreeze · Post by **CoolBreeze** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 10:06 am

I hate building web pages when I'm pissed. (Too many mistakes). Think I've fixed em now.

fearpeddler · Post by **fearpeddler** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 11:54 am

Go down to southern wv, other than the golf course for an example, I'll agree when done properly strip mining isnt bad, but that is where the problem lies, its rarely done properly.

lastone · Post by **lastone** » Sat Jun 30, 2007 7:16 pm

She must know....but isn't concerned....about what has happened to "strong voiced" individuals in WV in the past. She's not dealing with a 'here to see ya' crowd here. Violence and some sort of destruction of property may result, depending on whos toes she hammers!

These people can get MEAN!

Oldiesdude · Post by **Oldiesdude** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 12:42 am

I thought Nat King Coal was a great singer! .... Opps.... Wrong thread.