About Endmtr.com
September 2011
My name is Denny Tyler. I am the owner of Endmtr.com.
By profession I am a master electrician. I have worked on and off as a contractor for the coal industry for 20 years. The three years before quitting in 2008 I worked as a start-up technician specializing in, but not limited to, new coal processing plants. I was the guy that pushed all the buttons for the first time making sure that everything worked properly and troubleshooting it if it did not.
In late 2007 I went to work as a contractor for a subsidiary of Massey Energy called Progress Coal. Progress is a very large mountaintop removal site straddling the Raleigh and Boone county lines here in West Virginia.
One of the first things I didn’t like about the site was the name Progress. All of that destruction and they have the nerve to call it Progress.
Mountaintop Removal
I wasn’t born in West Virginia. Being an Air Force brat I was born in Kansas but raised in West Virginia. I couldn’t comprehend seeing all that destruction to the beautiful mountains of Appalachia with no viable justification. In my mind, nothing could justify the sheer level of devastation brought on Appalachia by way of mountaintop removal for coal, a non-renewable resource.
I couldn’t understand then and still can’t today why there is not more public outrage over mountaintop removal.
I started speaking out about MTR on my Backwoods Drifter blog. Coal industry propaganda was in full swing. Absolutely everything they claimed regarding mountaintop removal was a play on the truth or an outright lie. I had heard and seen enough it was time to take action and Endmtr.com was born.
Mountaintop removal became even more personal when I saw what it was doing to the mountains I grew up in and to the people who live there. Those were my mountains and the people were my friends and neighbors.
Edwight Mountaintop Removal Mine
I started this blog with the help of some friends because I thought folks needed to know and see the truth about mountaintop removal. The blog was meant to be an educational tool with posts being secondary to the links and photos. My intention was to tell you about MTR while providing a lot of links to allow for your own research. I hoped that you would research and form your own opinion based on that.
This blog doesn’t get the traffic that all webmasters yearn for. However, it has been viewed by over 50,000 unique visitors from 200+ countries as of Sept. 2011. The forum attached to this website has had 900,000 page views.
For a nobody from a little hollow in West Virginia that nobody cares about, I would say those numbers are pretty good. If just a few of those folks were motivated to take action as a result of this website or if it helped in their decision to take action I would have to call this website a success.
In Appalachia today we are doing terrible things to the mountains and to the people who live here. Things that the mountains and the people will have a tough time ever recovering from. We are doing it under the guise of progress, prosperity, and energy independence. We are destroying one of our greatest enduring natural resources, the Appalachian Mountains, for a non-renewable resource, coal. It made no sense when I started this blog and it makes no sense now.
STOP Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining!!
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation’s character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us. – Aldo Leopold
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