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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.
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.
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.
heart DONATE WHERE IT’S NEEDED MOST — The most immediate way to help the people fighting to save their homes and mountains near Buffalo Mountain is to support Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition. OVEC is dedicated to maintaining a diverse grassroots organization for the improvement and preservation of the environment through education, grassroots organizing and coalition building, leadership development and media outreach. Click here to donate to OVEC.

13 Responses to “Help the People in this Community Stop the Destruction”

  1. Jamie Says:

    Thank you for holding strong in the face of all of this. Students are finally mobilizing, and mobilizing quickly, to do something serious to help end our dependence on MTR coal. I grew up hiking in the Appalachians in New Hampshire – they’re the same mountains, and it’s terrible to see them destroyed anywhere.

  2. christin Says:

    It is time to stop the MOUNTIAN STATE from becoming the FORMER Mountain State

  3. C Rupani Says:

    This total disregard for humans & the earth has got to stop!

  4. Erin Says:

    You’ve got one more determined spirit fighting on your side as of today.
    Thank you for telling your story!

  5. Denise Says:

    We are studying about your plight in our university class. Most people do not realize this is occuring.

  6. jennifer pickens Says:

    The most important issue facing West Virginians today.Stop MTR

  7. Kathryn Weddington Says:

    I live nearby in Virginia and used to take my children to Buffalo Creek near Lexington, VA to picnic and play in the small rapids. This story makes me physically ill. How dare our politicians allow corporations to rape our lands as they do. Hillary Clinton was asked what she thought of moutain top removal and this is what she said:

    “I am concerned about it for all the reasons people state, but I think its a difficult question because of the conflict between the economic and environmental trade-off that you have here.

    I’m not an expert. I don’t know enough to have an independent opinion, but I sure would like people who could be objective, understanding both the economic necessities and environmental damage to come up with some approach that would enable us to retrieve the coal but would enable us to do it in a way that wouldn’t damage the living standards and the other important qualities associated with people living both under the mountaintop and people who are along the streams.

    You know, maybe there is a way to recover those mountaintops once they have been stripped of the coal. You know, I think we’ve got to look at this from a practical perspective.”

    Obama on the other hand believes strip mining is an environmental disaster and will heed our demands to end it.

    Perhaps there’s a reason why the word “monster” has come up in this primary.

  8. Usiku Says:

    I grew up on Buffalo Creek and was eight when the damn broke in 1972. The mining industry was not appealing to me even at that age and I dreamed of leaving to pursue something else. I wrote a story called Buffalo Creek Crossing to bring a positive spin to what is possible.

  9. Stan Bartkowiak Says:

    Mountains are unable to grow back, yet we keep destroying the beauty that they hold.

  10. Shannon Says:

    Stay strong and keep getting the message out. I just learned about this and I am telling anyone who will listen. This tragedy has to be stopped. I am writing to President Obama in hopes of drawing more attention to this. There should be a law….destroying natural resources for monetary gain is despicable. What can I do to help? We do care about the mountains and the people who reside there.

  11. Kathy Johnston Says:

    Please earnestly support S696, HR1310, & HR2169.
    Thank you.

  12. Lisa E Gergets Says:

    We are a family of four living in Chicago, currently considering relocating to eastern Kentucky. Now that we’ve found out about the mining and all the destruction, we are at a total loss about what to do.

    I feel for those mountains and the people and animals living in and around them.

  13. Keith Says:

    To any group dealing with ending MTR: I am willing to devote at least the next year of my life to help.

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