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"Mountaintop mining is practically raising the dead, while burying the living." - Larry Gibson, resident of Kayford mountain
In 1986, mountaintop removal operations began near Larry Gibson's home. Over the next 20 years, "the slow motion destruction of Kayford Mountain has been continuous - 24 hours a day, seven days a week." Coal companies have flattened more than 12,000 acres of mountain landscape around his home. Where he once looked up at the peaks of Kayford from his family graveyard, he now looks 300 feet straight down at a blasted and devastated landscape. Read more.
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The story of Kayford Mountain, West Virginia, is one of many that are connected to the power plants on your grid, which are marked on the map below.
The mountaintop removal mines shown in red are connected to the nearest coal power plant on your grid: Dan River, operated by Duke Energy Carolinas LLC.
Click on the mine symbols to take a closer look in Google Maps, or click here for a detailed explanation.
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Click any power plant to see how it is connected to mountaintop removal or any mine symbol to get a close-up view of that mine. The controls on the top left of the map allow you to zoom in closer to the ground or back out to get a broader perspective. Even easier, though, is to navigate with the "hand" tool. Clicking and dragging on the map will move the map in the same direction, double-clicking on a point will center the map on that point and zoom you in a little closer, and double clicking with the right mouse button (ctrl-click for macintosh users) to center on a point and zoom out. |
WHO PROVIDES MY ELECTRICITY?
The Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC service area is part of a larger interconnected electric grid operated by Duke Energy Carolinas.
There are a total of 8 coal-fired power plants on this grid that are connected to mountaintop removal. Following are details on how each is connected to mountaintop removal.
If Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (owned by USCE-Savannah District) is not the company that sends your electric bill, please CLICK HERE to select your electric provider from a list.
If your electric provider is not on these lists, please notify us
Plants on the Duke Energy Carolinas grid that purchase coal directly from mountaintop removal strip mines in Appalachia include:
Appalachian Voices • Coal River Mountain Watch • Heartwood • Keeper of the Mountains • Kentuckians for the Commonwealth
Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition • Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment • Sierra Club Environmental Justice
Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards • SouthWings • Stay Project • West Virginia Highlands Conservancy
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