American Coal Mining | Strip Mines | Fossil Fuels | Appalachian Mountains | 1974
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- FOR OVER 25 YEARS COAL COMPANIES HAVE STRIP MINED THOUSAND OF ACRES OF AMERICAN APPALCHIAN MOUNTAINS. THOUSAND OF ACRES OF COUNTRY ARE LAID WASTE AS WHOLE MOUNTAINSIDE ARE BLASTED AND BULLDOZED TO REACH OFTEN TINY COAL SEAMS. ONE OF THE BIGGEST LAND OWNERS IN THE AREA IS THE BRITISH COMPANY "AMERICAN ASSOCIATION LTD" WHICH FORMS PART OF AN INTERNATIONAL EMPIRE HEADED BY AN EX LORD MAYOR OF LONDON, SIR DENYS LOWSON.
First Shown: 25/07/1974
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16:08, great seeing this after getting interested in Appalachia from a vlogger's video. My favourite part of this video as a Brit, 'able Saxon stock' haha
Strip mining exploded during WWII when with the need for coal the government handed out money enabling many to start their own business of striping coal. In my area of N.W. PA. there were many, many small companies strip mining up until the mid to late1970's.
at the very beginning the insects shown are cicadas, (specifically the 17 year ones, annual cicadas are green not black) not locusts. cicadas are harmless whereas locusts can decimate crops. Anyone from the southern/eastern US knows that background humming sound in the video as a familiar sound of summer. i know this video is quite old but I thought id point that out.
I was born in Fonda Kentucky and the coal minning that my Dad did put food on the table and we all loved it and still do. That is a place we call home.
Bell Co here
@@TheMayorsDaughter Knox Co here
Nice to meet you
are you related to John H. Parks of the Mountain Assembly?
@@InFactScott He worked all over these mountains
I agree the Mountains are being ripped apart
I love seeing an old dozer rip through the woods
Ol D9 G
Look people if you dont like minning then turn your lights off in your house
Your coal industry is dead. Finally! Dirty and depleting...
@Tim Maybe I shouldn't have posted a comment in the fashion of a Trump Twitter post. I said something rather thoughtless with no regards to others and I said it with so much confidence. Coal worked, right? Created jobs, fed people...I get it. What about the long term repercussions? The land is depleted of its clean water and resources, and the people have a job for a few years...then nothing. Used up and forgotten. Instead of creating a reusable system, a clean system, we created a problematic system. A system that projected long term solutions, long term growth, and long term employment. Coal should've been a last resort as we created an infrastructure that considered the problems that coal has created and was known it was going to create. That's the problem with our system; it's shortsighted. Coal work and coal use is DIRTY and it does DEPLETE the people and the land.
@oShane Kasper No, I do hesitate. I also am working on transitioning my home over to renewable energy sources. These jobs are very dangerous, that's for sure! The workers are extremely brave...and I do appreciate what I have...but...it's a system that needs to change. Do you enjoy the outdoors? Rolling hills, mountains, rivers, wildlife, meadows, clean water? A diverse range of flora and fauna? I imagine you do. Would you like to preserve God's Green Earth? Of course you do...I apologize if I'm a bit presumptuous, but why would you not? If you are participating in a system, voluntarily or not, that creates more problems than it resolves, wouldn't you want to change that? It's great to have instant energy...natural gas, coal, atomic, wood...all enabling me to lead a nice and comfy life. What about the hazards? The repercussions of my comfortable lifestyle need to be addressed. As do yours and every other person in this country. It's our patriotic duty.
3 new mines opening in Pennsylvania so fuck you...
Shewww i coal mining its my life and is what puts food on the table and gets the lights and i will love it and even my sons are into mining and they love it to
Proud Coal Strippers Daughter- Proud Oil Field Wife. My dad stripped coal for 25+ years until he couldn't work anymore. It was a hard but honest living. My husband works for a gas & oil company. It has its dangers just like coal but it is a good job now that coal is gone. But I would NOT want my husband working in the coal fields, for his safety. I've seen 1st hand the effects. If you don't like coal, stripe mining, deep mining or any other natural resources don't use electric or buy gasoline!!!!!!!!!
You wouldn’t happen to be from Floyd co by chance?…I am and the name sounds familiar
@@arborist460 Nope Perry County. But my daddy worked Knott and Pike County. He worked developing Mossy Botton in Pikeville and the old Wal-Mart location, now Community Trust Beank Opperations.
District 12?
Yas
Everything is reclaimed and put back in place
Soil erosion causes flooding
Second generation Eastern Ky coal miner here and we're here mining every lump of coal for Consol. You sold your mountains to us so don't need to act like we're here just destroying land and you're not getting rich from it. We put everything back and make excellent use of the land 🇺🇸🇺🇸 TRUMP 2020🇺🇸🇺🇸
The riches of those mountains were for everybody not a handful of rich assholes.
They flat out took resource rich beautiful mountains from these people and left them depleted and destroyed . Land that was in those families for generations, literally robbed them by having the money to do it. That’s sickening.
This sad situation could be resolved by state legislators very easily if they would propose and pass laws to protect the natural resources of this impoverished area. I have been to Tn many times and it is one of the most beautiful states in America. Sad to see it destroyed and its people suffer financial devastation so that a handful of people can grow rich.