Coal In West Virginia: "Slowly But Surely They're Killing Us -- Legally"

A toxic coal ash sludge spill in Tennessee ruined land, homes and lives recently, bringing to the fore an inconvenient truth about coal: it's not clean.

So where is the next sludge spill? Where are the piles of coal ash around the country that are similarly prone? While that information is gathered, here's a look at how non-spilled coal is ruining land, homes and lives, thanks to a 5-part VBS special.

While the entire special is interesting, here's the fifth part, focusing on how chemicals in the water supply are affecting a West Virginia family.

Start from the beginning of the series here

Comments

[CoffeeBreakDMV]

PLEASE take a moment to check this out. WATER is something we ALL have the right to. Yes, I mean CLEAN & CLEAR water!
This reminds me of Erin Brockovich. It's just ...wrong..­..

[jillsond]

Move out now. C'mon, you can start over somewhere else, people do it all the time. Get those kids out of there now.

[DocJerome]

Criminal.

[RTIII]

What I don't understand is why they don't just move.

With what money? Does it matter? Anyplace is better. Try asking a church or the Red Cross for help...

Another thing: What about suing?
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[research]

Leave!

Whatever it takes.

Get the Hel out of that place.

[TMAN]

Has anybody made the connection yet? Does anybody really care about the r^pE they know is presently going on. The corporate ownership of the peoples government? The excuse making on the part of all our representatives.

Remember when the Soviet Union fell, the Romanian dictator and his wife? Their exe cuti on?

We can stop this IF WE HAVE THE WILL. We have less then a decade.

[ashabot]

So "GOD's going to handle it"? Fine. Stop taking the pills then. And stop worrying about your children.

Incredible.

[ddanimal]

That poor family needs to see a naturopathic doctor and stop taking antibiotics and drugs. Those pharmaceutical drugs wont cure anything. They will just kill you, usually it takes a few years or a decade.

They need to take vitamins and chelators to eliminate the heavy metals.

Their doctor is an IDIOT. Their doctor is a conventional MD no doubt.

[themustafa]

yes, conventional MD's and modern medicine kill people every day. Thats why life expectancy has gone up substantially over the last 100 years.

science is science. if you have a suppressed immune system and a bacterial infection, you need antibiotics, or you'll die. its not complicated.

i really can't stand people who think naturopaths are going to cure everything, and modern medicine is bunk. you just dont understand science, and are as ignorant as right-wing conservatives screaming about the destruction of the family structure.

i guess liberal doesnt always mean educated.

[ddanimal]

Coal burning is the biggest source of mercury pollution. All that mercury in your fish and water is there thanks to COAL!

[AngieMom57]

Watch this...

www.zeitgeistmovie.com

[StopGlobalWarmingBeVegan]

That is a lot of pills.