Media Hit

07-04-2008 Associated Press (Dawes, WV): "Three groups working to end mountaintop removal coal mining are sponsoring a festival at Kayford Mountain's Stanley Heirs Park near Dawes in Kanawha County.  The two-day Mountain Keepers Music Festival, which begins Saturday, features bluegrass, gospel and country music."

 

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/homepage/x655255137/Mountain-Keepers-Festival-this-weekend

10/26/2007 The Associated Press (Hazard, KY) -- "Environmental groups across Appalachia spoke out at public hearings in four states on a Bush administration-backed proposal to relax restrictions preventing mining activity near waterways. The groups oppose exempting valley fills — in which rubble from mountaintop removal mining is dumped in nearby valleys — from the 20-year-old rule restricting mining activity near streams."

 

http://www.timeswv.com/westvirginia/local_story_298000510.html