Comments on: Spotlight On Prosperity – Lindytown, WV

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:24:47 +0000

http://earthjustice.org/blog/2011-april/ny-times-casts-light-on-lindytown-wv-harms-of-mtr
NY Times on Linytown!

By: Maria Gunnoe

Maria Gunnoe — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:03:02 +0000

For the people that lived there that signed these bogus contracts. THEY ARE ILLEGAL!!
Also no one could stand living there any longer.

Massey didn’t do anyone any favors but themselves…

By diminishing the quality of life in Lindytown MASSEY forced people out!

What is happening to our family cemeteries there is absolutely a human rights issue.

Massey should be ashamed of what they are doing to us.

But they have no shame… They just killed 29 men and since then they have all these stupid commercials talking about their safety record…
I wonder if they trying to convince everyone else or themselves….

By: Maria Gunnoe

Maria Gunnoe — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 13:49:13 +0000

http://www.mtrstopshere.com
Don’t let this happen in Twilight.

This is the next town on RT 26 slatted for total inhalation!

By: Denny Tyler

Denny Tyler — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:51:35 +0000

William – Massey’s own statement about Lindytown contradicts everything you said. I can hardly see traffic as an issue in Lindytown for the simple fact it is located off the main thoroughfare. For you to say the mountaintop removal site over Lindytown causes zero problems for the residents shows me your ignorance on the subject. I would suggest you go over there and talk to those that remain and ask them what their fears are.

As far as hack reporting… I’m not a reporter. Most reporters in West Virginia are friends of coal, you’ll not find that here.

You’re against MTR? I seriously doubt that otherwise you would just know better. These surface mines as you call them cause problems for every community they encroach on. Someone truly against MTR would know that because it is one of the main reasons we fight. If you are against MTR then you need to educate yourself on the issues.

I would suggest if you want to be a mouth piece for the coal industry… find another site to visit from now on.

By: Williiam

Williiam — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:24:46 +0000

Maybe everyone here should realize that the town approached Massey and asked them to be bought out. Massey Energy paid double the amount of each property value and covered the moving expenses. However, the town had a meeting and they were tired of the over sized vehicles that would pass by the homes on a regular basis. There are a few people who decided to stay because the Surface Mines cause zero problem to the rest of the community. Massey basically paid for other underground mines and the traffic they caused.

This is hack reporting at it’s finest and I am too against MTR.

By: ryan burns

ryan burns — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:15:19 +0000

yeah i used to live there in the yellow house in the first pic

By: Dave Rao

Dave Rao — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:01:16 +0000

Never give an inch. IMPEACH BLANKENSHIP!

By: Mountainsaver

Mountainsaver — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:30:49 +0000

You know Denny, I’ve been seeing all kinds of Massey commercials on T.V. recently, about how Massey gives, and how they live here too, wonder how many Massey workers live in Lindytown, and it is obvious, that Massey, rather than gives, most often takes. They take our mountains, they take our homes, they take our water, hell, they even take our cemeteries. What do we have left that they can take. I sure there is a lot more that they take, than I have mentioned. Heart breaking post!

By: David Fields

David Fields — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:06:51 +0000

As a native West Virginian now living in Kentucky, I was very impressed, and distressed, by your articles on Lindytown.

By: Vickie Terry

Vickie Terry — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:09:16 +0000

I just want to cry, this is so wrong, I really would love to be there for John Kennedy Jr & Don Blankenship discussion next year…how does he sleep at night. Thanks for sharing this…..