Friday, April 3, 2009
Legislature / Woods Sheryl Crow Leads 'Music Saves Mountains' Campaign
Posted by Jeff Woods on Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:46 AM
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"These stars are asking fans to contact Gov. Phil Bredesen to ask him to back the Tennessee Scenic Vistas Protection Act to ensure the safety of the state's mountaintops. "
Well now if the mountains in question are part of privately owned land, they aren't "the state's" mountaintops in the first place.
If the "stars" don't want some particular mountain to be blown up, they should cough up the cash and buy it themselves at fair market value.
Now Gil, tsk, tsk. This is just not a proper socialist solution to an environmental situation. Why, the very idea--someone, doing what government must do.
Whatever would we be coming to if everybody thought that way?
Mountaintop removal IS an atrocity and a crime against nature. Hoorah for these people who are using their visibility to try to stop it.
Stop raping our beautiful landscape! Join the movement! Check this video out: http://vimeo.com/3586182
I live in the middle, of what is considered "ground zero," the Coal River Valley. I watched our. communities that's been around for hundred's of years, disappear, under attack everyday, with 25 hundred tons of explosives each day. Our water sheds, and water supplies, are being poisoned with heavy metals. An entire culture is being destroyed. I appreciate the stand that Sheryl, Kathy,Emmylou, and Kenny, for speaking out, and Fighting For Appalachia, an American treasure. Thanks
WOO-HOO! For Sheryl Crow and other stars that stand up. I live near strip mining as well and let me say that when the coal industry blasts our mountains with 3 million pounds of explosives daily-it also blasts our homes and sends silica and coal dust all over us, our lungs and property and the blasts damages our property. I believe in property rights too and if the land company allows the coal industry to blast us and poison us then that is an illegal way to use their property.
The land companies rights end when what they do on their property harms me and others downstream or down hill.
Mountaintop removal is a crime and should be treated as a crime.
Not to mention the selenium that is poisoning the streams.
