Take Action – Sierra Club
From the Sierra Club – Sign our petition to Massey Energy and tell CEO Don Blankenship that we must end mountaintop removal mining today. Tell Massey Energy to End Mountaintop Removal Mining — When I first read this take action notice I thought a lot of good it will do to tell Blankenship anything. He [...]
Massey Energy, WV Supreme Court – Fiasco
I had not read these stories from The Wall Street Journal Law Blog until a good friend sent them to me this morning. I had heard quite a bit about Blankenship’s effort to sway the supreme court in a 76.3 million dollar suit against Massey Energy. The links in this post follow the story on [...]
Ravaging Appalachia
I just received this link to the following story and wanted to share it. This is a very good article apparently written with passion. Coal mining ravages Appalachia mountains Prelude -“They’re ripping the tops off mountains in West Virginia coal country to feed our insatiable appetite for power. It’s cheaper that way. And the trees [...]
Visiting Kayford
I had the opportunity to visit Kayford Mountain yesterday. Unfortunately it was extremely foggy and the pictures I have only give an indication of the destruction hidden under a blanket of fog. Although I didn’t get to see the mountaintop removal going on around Larry’s place I did get to listen to him talk to [...]
Cancellation Notice!
Tomorrow’s DEP Oversight Hearing is Cancelled! Committee Chair Senator Jon Hunter had to cancel. We’ll update when it is re-scheduled. Thanks! ———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 [...]
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