Exporting Appalachia
U.S. Coal Supply and Demand: 2008 Review – (pdf) Appalachian Region Coal production in the Appalachian Region reversed a two-year declining trend and ended 2008 at 389.8 million short tons, an increase of 3.2 percent, or 12.0 million short tons. The growth in 2008 in coal production in the Appalachian Region was primarily driven by [...]
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 [...]
Governor Manchin Sides With Massey Energy, Allows Blasting to Move Forward On Coal River Mountain
November 25, 2008 Public participation denied; permanent wind energy jobs threatened Manchin could still save Coal River Mountain WHITESVILLE, W.VA. — The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has approved Massey Energy’s revision of a mountaintop removal coal mining permit for Coal River Mountain that will impact over a hundred acres as well as [...]
ACTION ALERT: Massey Coal Company To Begin Destruction
ACTION ALERT: Coal company to begin destruction of major West Virginia wind energy resource Help us ask WV Governor Manchin for “stay of execution” for Coal River Mountain Hey Folks, The residents of the Coal River Valley in West Virginia urgently need your help. While we thought we had months to stop the proposed Mountaintop [...]
Clean Coal, Dirty Extraction
Edwight mountaintop removal mine encompassing Schumate, Clay’s Branch, Drews Creek, and numerous other hollows I don’t know the names of. ———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 [...]
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