Communities, Welcome to Island Creek, Kentucky
Help the People in this Community Stop the Destruction
Friday, October 12th, 2007
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HELP SPREAD THE WORD — Join thousands who are standing up against the destruction of Appalachian mountains and communities and who are helping to spread awareness of the other inconvenient truth about coal: mountaintop removal. |
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THEY’RE BLOWING UP OUR MOUNTAINS AND THERE OUGHT TO BE A LAW! Ask your representative to support the Clean Water Protection Act – a bill that would curtail mountaintop removal and protect clean water for millions of Americans. |
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TELL YOUR ELECTRICITY PROVIDER — “NOT IN MY NAME!” — Click on this link, submit your zip code and choose “Take Action” where you can print out a letter – tailored to your own electricity provider – asking them not to do business with companies engaged in mountaintop removal strip mining. |
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DONATE WHERE IT’S NEEDED MOST — The most immediate way to help the people fighting to save their homes and mountains near Island Creek is to support Kentuckians for the Commonwealth. KFTC works with people to organize in their home communities across Kentucky, helping everyday community members become extraordinary community leaders. Click here to donate to KFTC. |
November 20th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Not that anyone opposed to this needs more motivation, but to know that switching your light on effects for folks like Brenda.
April 14th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
I typed in a zip code of where I use to live in Norfolk VA and discovered that its coal came from where I live in Island Creek now. It totally made me cry and hurt my heart.
May 18th, 2009 at 12:52 am
Please earnestly support S696, HR1310, & HR2169.
Thank you.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
I am so sorry to hear that my electrical company deals with companies that do Mountain Top Removal. I am even more sorry that it took another power company, Old Dominion Electrical Cooperative (ODEC) wanting to build a 1,500MW coal fired baseload coal plant in our tiny town of Dendron, VA (little over 300 souls) where every home in the town of Dendron will be in the ‘stack shadow’ and Surry County schools will be 3 miles from the coal plant before I found out about Mountain Top Removal and what these coal companies are doing to the wonderful mountains that my hubby and I have been camping and hiking in for many years and the people who live there. I have been making sure people know about MTR and the proposed ODEC plant on my blog (BambisMusings.WordPress.com). Our problems may be at opposite ends of the coal spectrum but they are intrinsically laced together.
September 1st, 2009 at 3:15 pm
I am so sorry, and I am working against mountaintop removal with calls and letters and petitions and conversations. Luckily there are many more like me. Maybe we’re making progress. I wish you the best, in surviving first, and then getting help to restore your life after we have won.