Mountaintop Removal

 03/06/08 Florida State University News (Tallahassee, FL): "While many students spend their spring break at the beach or by a pool, students involved in the Mountain Justice Spring Break (MJSB) program will spend it working against the coal industry in the Appalachian Mountains.  MJSB is made up of 12 nationally and locally based organizations, including the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC), the Southern Energy Network and the Energy Action Coalition. The week is spent informing students on the social and environmental impacts of the coal industry."

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

03/06/2008 Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA) -- " Opponents of a proposed coal-fired power plant have some reinforcements -- about 75 college students who arrived to help fight the coal industry in Southwest Virginia.

The students are on an alternative spring break to learn about coal, the region and activism on issues including mountaintop removal strip mining and the power plant Dominion Virginia Power is proposing to build in Wise County, Va."

 

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-03-06-0149.html

2/15/2008 Kentucky Kernal (Frankfort, KY) -- "Instead of flowers and candy, thousands of people gave state legislators something to think about on Valentine's Day.  Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and other environmental organizations rallied yesterday at the Capitol Building in Frankfort to protest mountaintop removal, a form of strip mining where explosives are used to blast the tops of mountains to mine the coal beneath."

 

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