Mountaintop Removal – Kayford Mountain, High Resolution
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Gov. Manchin Pushes Renewable Resources??
Aug 9, 2008 Speaking at a Southern States Energy Board meeting Friday, Manchin said more renewable projects will protect West Virginia from criticism as it pushes coal as critical to helping America achieve energy independence. Manchin says using wind, biomass, even waste to generate electricity still leaves West Virginia 75 percent or more short of [...]
Hobet 22, Coal River Wind, and Beyond
I haven’t been doing a lot of writing lately but I have been doing quite a bit of thinking and this post is to kind of catch the writing up with my thoughts. One thing I have been thinking about is the deal just recently made with the Hobet 21 expansion to be known as [...]
A Precarious Position At Best
Judge blocks Hobet mine expansion August 12, 2008 A federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked a permit to expand the Hobet 21 mountaintop removal mine along the Boone-Lincoln county line. U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers issued a temporary retraining order requested by the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition and other groups. Chambers blocked the permit [...]
STOP MTR!!
———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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