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Just a transition away.

I think it is kinda funny. As my grandma was fond of saying – you made your bed, now you have to sleep in it. With the protests against strip-mining in the 70′s and 80′s they should have known then. Did you think people would just lay down for mountaintop removal? If our leaders had [...]

Where once stood mountains…

In this post I have the rest of the photos from my trip to the mountains a couple of days ago. As I stated, the clear-cut mountain in this post, I came up on by accident and was actually attempting to avoid mountaintop removal just for one day. However after taking a GPS reading from [...]

Civil Disobedience & Mountaintop Removal

You better get used to it – I have a feeling you are going to be seeing the two terms that make up the title of this post together a lot this summer. ——— Adding – From WVPubcast June 24, 2009 · Just two days after yet another mountaintop removal protest, the U.S. Senate Committee [...]

It doesn’t take blasting to destroy a mountain.

As protestors were getting arrested yesterday at Sundial, WV – I was on the backside of the mountaintop removal site at the mine they were protesting. Since it seems that every blogger in the state of West Virginia blogged about the civil disobedience action yesterday, I’m not going there… yet. What I am going to [...]

Mountain Aid 2009

I can think of no place I would rather have been. I spent this past weekend at the first annual (hopefully the only one needed) Mountain Aid festival at Shakori Hills, NC. It felt good to discuss mountaintop removal openly without the backlash and the name calling. In other words, without the friends of coal [...]

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