[Coach_Owens87]

I was reading a report on the meeting in WV, and I came across something really funny. Old school pointed out something not so well spoken by an "environmentalist" at the meeting. Well I came across something spoken by a miner which sounds just as bad.

Here is the quote from the article.

http://www.wvgazette.com/section/Series/...0251?pt=10

John Harden, an electrician at the Hobet 21 mountaintop removal mine in Boone County, said he and his fellow workers are environmentalists who improve water quality with their mining and leave reclaimed sites in good shape and ready for development.

“We like to hunt and we like to fish,” Harden said.

Harden also recalled seeing the Grand Canyon during a motorcycle tour across country this summer.

“I looked at the Grand Canyon and I said, ‘Wow, that looks like my job,’” Harden said. “And it’s a national historic site.”

So their environmentalist who think dumping waste into streams improves water quality, that wiping out forest is good for the environment, and that Appalachia is beginning to look the the grand canyon?

Also any environmentalist would know that the grand canyon is a national park and a world heritage site, not a national historic park.

And as far as development of the land they leave, well thats a joke also, an estimated 2-5% of the mined land is being developed. That just doesn't seem like a lot to me.