Communities, Welcome to Fork Ridge, Virginia
Help the People in this Community Stop the Destruction
Sunday, October 14th, 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 Fork Ridge is to support Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards. SAMS is committed to stopping the destruction of communities by surface coal mining and to help rebuild sustainable communities. Click here to donate to SAMS. |
March 4th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
I hadn’t thought much about my use of coal until recently.
I watched the film “garbage” a couple of weeks ago. I actually didn’t know that coal was an energy source for my home. I always wondered how a power plant makes power!
May 18th, 2009 at 12:47 am
Please earnestly support S696, HR1310, & HR2169.
Thank you.
August 22nd, 2010 at 11:02 am
My father worked the mines in Roda, VA from 1930 to 1942. I am looking for pictures of the mines to pass on to my children. If anyone can assist me it will be greatly appreciated…My father died from Black Lung in 1943. I can be found on Facebook.