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What's My Connection to Mountaintop Removal?

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Birchwood Power

OPERATOR: Birchwood Power Partners LP

LOCATION: King George County, VA

CONNECTION SUMMARY: This power plant purchases coal directly from Central Appalachian strip mines. Of the Appalachian communities featured on this site, the one most closely connected to this power plant is Kayford Mountain, West Virginia.

INTERACTIVE MAP: Click any of the mine icons in the map below to get a close-up view of where your power comes from - each mine symbol represents a connection to mountaintop removal for Birchwood Power and for electricity consumers connected to Birchwood Power Partners LP. Direct suppliers of strip mined coal from Central Appalachia are shown in red. See below for the legend and navigation hints.

View this plant's connection in Google Earth

LEGEND:	Birchwood Power, operated by Birchwood Power Partners LP
LEGEND:	Mountaintop removal mines that are connected to your power grid
NAVIGATION HINTS:	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.