URGENT: Take action to Save Coal River Mountain!
Take Action Now!
The day we've fought for years has arrived -- Massey Energy has begun blasting Coal River Mountain, and we're joining with local residents to call on our allies across the nation and world to demand an end to the destruction. Massey is blasting the containing ridge of a slurry impoundment that holds 8.2 billion gallons of toxic sludge, with underground mine works running beneath it. If the dam fails, an estimated 998 people could be killed. Blasting also destroys the mountain's wind potential. According to a 2006 study, the Coal River Mountain could be home to the east coast's largest wind farm if Massey Energy doesn't destroy the mountain. Our Coal River Wind campaign to build this wind farm has powerful community support, but the current blasting threatens to destroy the possibility -- and our hopes for a sustainable future.
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Posted by root on Thursday October 4, 2009
The day we've fought for years has arrived -- Massey Energy has begun blasting Coal River Mountain, and we're joining with local residents to call on our allies across the nation and world to demand an end to the destruction. Massey is blasting the containing ridge of a slurry impoundment that holds 8.2 billion gallons of toxic sludge, with underground mine works running beneath it. If the dam fails, an estimated 998 people could be killed. Blasting also destroys the mountain's wind potential. According to a 2006 study, the Coal River Mountain could be home to the east coast's largest wind farm if Massey Energy doesn't destroy the mountain. Our Coal River Wind campaign to build this wind farm has powerful community support, but the current blasting threatens to destroy the possibility -- and our hopes for a sustainable future.
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Tell the Army Corps to Stop Rubber-Stamping Valley Fill Permits!
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be hold public hearings in four coalfield areas Oct. 13-15, about the decision to stop allowing fast-track valley fills permits, called "Nationwide Permit 21," or "NWP 21." Ending nationwide permits will slow mountaintop removal coal mining and give local residents a greater voice in the permitting process, taking us one step closer to ending mountaintop removal altogether. We need to speak out loud and clear at these hearings and make sure Big Coal's voice isn't the only one! If you can, please attend the meeting nearest you. The schedule is below, along with contact people -- please let the contact people know if you plan to attend. If you need a ride, carpooling can be arranged.
* October 13, 2009, 7 p.m., in Charleston, West Virginia at the Charleston Civic Center. Contact Tonya Adkins, Ohio Valley Environmental Citizen Action: 4themountains@gmail.com or 606.286.1442 or 304.522.0246
* October 13, 2009, 7 p.m., in Pikeville, Kentucky at the East Kentucky Expo Center. Contact Kevin Pentz, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC): kevin@kftc.org or (859) 986-1277
* October 13, 2009, 7 p.m., in Knoxville, Tennessee, location TBA. Contact Ann League, State-wide Organizing for Community eMpowerment (SOCM): ann@socm.org or (865) 426-9455 ext 16
* October 15, 2009, 7 p.m., in Big Stone Gap, Virginia at Mountain Empire Community College. Contact Mike McCoy, Appalachian Voices: mike@appvoices.org or (336) 909.0720
Posted by Julia on Tuesday October 2, 2009
* October 13, 2009, 7 p.m., in Charleston, West Virginia at the Charleston Civic Center. Contact Tonya Adkins, Ohio Valley Environmental Citizen Action: 4themountains@gmail.com or 606.286.1442 or 304.522.0246
* October 13, 2009, 7 p.m., in Pikeville, Kentucky at the East Kentucky Expo Center. Contact Kevin Pentz, Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC): kevin@kftc.org or (859) 986-1277
* October 13, 2009, 7 p.m., in Knoxville, Tennessee, location TBA. Contact Ann League, State-wide Organizing for Community eMpowerment (SOCM): ann@socm.org or (865) 426-9455 ext 16
* October 15, 2009, 7 p.m., in Big Stone Gap, Virginia at Mountain Empire Community College. Contact Mike McCoy, Appalachian Voices: mike@appvoices.org or (336) 909.0720
Anti-mountaintop removal arrestees need your help!
We desperately need your donations to help out some climate heroes in need. As you probably know, 30 people -- including NASA Scientist James Hansen, Actress Daryl Hannah and former Congressman Ken Hechler -- were arrested last Tuesday opposing mountaintop removal and a second coal silo at Marsh Fork Elementary school in southern West Virginia. To learn more, see some of the incredible coverage below. You may also know that the brave citizens were charged with block traffic and obstructing an officer. We were forced to block traffic by the Fiends of Coal who had blocked our access to the road -- but no one came near obstructing an officer. We are trying to get the outrageous charges dropped, but as it stands, these trumped up charges may cost each person $500-600!
Most of the 30 were average citizens -- including students, grandmas and grandpas, teachers, and many, many local heroes to the movement-- each fed up enough with the destruction of our mountains and endangerment of children to put their foot down and say, "No More!" No more coal plant dumping toxic dust onto an elementary school, no more blasting apart our mountains and our heritage, and no more fueling climate change.
Posted by staff on Thursday July 4, 2009
Most of the 30 were average citizens -- including students, grandmas and grandpas, teachers, and many, many local heroes to the movement-- each fed up enough with the destruction of our mountains and endangerment of children to put their foot down and say, "No More!" No more coal plant dumping toxic dust onto an elementary school, no more blasting apart our mountains and our heritage, and no more fueling climate change.
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