Mountaintop removal mining protests going national
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By: buzztail
Here's a couple of quick updates and actions on the continuing fight to stop the destruction and havoc wreaked by mountaintop removal mining.Nationwide Permit 21 (NWP-21) has been used for years as a way for coal companies to streamline the MTR permitting process, to get quick go-aheads on their projects by bypassing public comment or ...
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Mining company to destroy last mountain in Coal River Valley
By: DelilahStarling
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz.— A subsidiary of Massey Energy has begun mountaintop-removal coal-mining operations on Coal River Mountain in West Virginia, the only peak in Coal River Valley that hasn’t been blasted away for mining. Blasting for the mine is taking place 200 yards from the Brushy Fork coal slurry impoundment, which holds 8 billion ...
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By: danollila
The transportation of coal can easily be witnessed just by waiting for the D-Line of Denver’s Light Rail service. I’ve watched the trains go by every carrying more coal than can possibly be transported by any other transportation system. It’s easy to take for granted that the train full of coal passing by is just how things work ...
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- News Source: Star Tribune | about 1 month agoActivists with Mountain Justice, Rainforest Action Network and other groups planned protests at Environmental Protection Agency headquarters and across the country Friday to demand the end of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia. An online map...
- News Source: The Boston Globe | about 1 month agoPlease try again, or click here to retrieve your password. Existing users
- Blog Source: blog.taragana.comMountaintop removal mining protests going national.
- Blog Source: www.washingtonexaminer.comActivists with Mountain Justice, Rainforest Action Network and other environmental groups are planning nationwide protests demanding an end to mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia.
- Blog Source: www.earth-stream.comThis morning, just before dawn, four individuals chained themselves across a haul road on a strip mining site in Kanawha County, West Virginia to protest mountaintop removal mining. Four more joined them on site in support roles, ...
- Blog Source: understory.ran.orgLast year the state issued permits to conduct mountain top removal on the site, despite protest by local residents. Witnesses saw blasts and smoke on Friday near the Brushy Fork coal slurry impoundment. ... study commissioned by Coal River Mountain
- Blog Source: www.huffingtonpost.comOur state government, led by Governor Joe Manchin, refuses to step in and stop this insanity. We have now reached a true state of emergency in the Coal River Valley. Massey's path of destruction has sought to destroy the Coal River Wind ...
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