Marsh Fork Elementary – Update
I have written a few times about Marsh Fork Elementary and the battle for a new school, see here and here. Thanks in a large part to my good friend Ed Wiley and his Pennies of Promise campaign the battle for a new safer school has been won. Victory: New School For Marsh Fork Elementary [...]
What did you expect?
I have to wonder what the Army Corp of Engineers could have possibly been thinking holding sensitive hearings concerning mountaintop removal in the coalfields. From all of the articles I have read last night and this morning and after talking with my friend Chuck Nelson the hearings turned out exactly as I expected they would. [...]
A Rare Thumbs Up & the Usual Thumbs Down
Let it never be said that I’m am not one to give credit where credit is due. As much as I have ranted about WV political leaders I have to give some of them credit for finally doing the right thing contrary to what the coal industry, or Massey Energy in this case, would have [...]
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 [...]
Valley of the Damned
I know the title may not seem appropriate but what else could you call it? Progress maybe… If all of the destruction on the upper ridges were not enough – at the base of this monstrosity sits 2.8 billion gallons of coal slurry. The pond in the next 2 photos is the one behind Marsh [...]
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