It’s Our Sacred DUTY to Allow Our Mountains to Be Leveled - Huh?

On WV Public TV’s Outlook, Roger Lilly of Walker Machinery (supplies huge machines to coal industry) seemed to admit the coal industry thinks that southern West Virginia should be a national energy sacrifice zone. Lilly said, "... my daughter lived in Manhattan in New York. Manhattan is an area of 22 square miles. It has 68,000 people per square mile. Boone County is 500 square miles. It has 50 people per square mile. We, we have an obligation to the greater good for the people. We export 70 percent of our coal. We have to, we have to provide electricity and power for this country for our urban brothers and sisters. We, we have a great responsibility here in West Virginia, and we can’t let that go." 

Note that some individual mountaintop removal mines are about 12,000 acres – approaching the size of Manhattan!