What's more important, destroying an entire ecosystem, poisoning the water with arsenic, watching people get black lung and kids get cancer, die a slow and painful death .... or jobs.  There are better, cleaner ways to mine coal that are more environmentally friendly.  And snce we live in our environment, we shoudl take care of it.  Nothing against coal mining and coal miners.  I love WV and the people.  The point is that this is a far too destructive method of doing so.