Communities, Welcome to the Community of Bob White, West 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 Bob White 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. |
April 15th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Doing a mock policy briefing for my Natural Resource Policy class on mountain top removal
April 24th, 2008 at 9:16 am
what a vicious circle. family bought the land with money from a coal mine only to have that land destroyed by a coal mine.
October 21st, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Just watched “Burning The Future: Coal In America, which was on the Sundance Channel. Makes you want to cry. I want to help but don’t know how.
November 15th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
I am a native of Northern Kentucky,however I have been living in the R.O.C. Taiwan for more than 6 years now. I am studying a masters in ecotourism at the national university of Tainan City Taiwan. My professors have asked me to discuss and introduce nature/ecotourism in the US and naturally I began looking at Kentucky. I considered the recreational use of natural forest resources as an alternative to traditional extraction of primary resources – lumber and minerals – I feel shocked at the magnitude and ruthlessness of the destruction occurring in the Appalachia.
February 8th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
For Maria Gunnoe…
I just saw the film “Burning our Future” on Sundance. I had the pleasure of visiting your area in Nov. ’07. I work with Oak, Birch, Hickory sustainable Hardwood Flooring. I really was awestruck on how beautiful the Appalachian Mountain Range is, when the fall colors were visible. I believe it is completely appalling what is happening to your area. How did the coal industry thrive before leveling mountaintops? By employing hard working men and women through less invasive methods. Maybe the fat-cat execs of the coal industry should worry less about profits and stick to more traditional ways. This would employ more miners as before. Couldn’t your team truck some coal slurry or black well water to their Penthouse’s in New York? If it’s collateral damage, why can’t they share in the experience that you folks in West Virginia are forced to live with? I appreciated your efforts very much and wish you, your family, loved ones, and neighbors the very best. Although I lived and work up here in Washington State, I will be keeping a very close eye on your plight. My e-mail contact is listed and I would be interested in getting any updates or donation information forwarded to will@finishingtouchfloors.com.
Good luck and God bless,
William Dodd
Snohomish, WA
May 18th, 2009 at 12:50 am
Please earnestly support S696, HR1310, & HR2169.
Thank you.
July 14th, 2009 at 9:16 am
I was raised in WV and my family still live there. I love visiting and still call it home. The beauty of the mountains still give me goosebumps and the devastation going on is heart breaking. Please keep up the good work and save the gift that only God could have created.
December 7th, 2009 at 5:24 pm
Another huge benefit to not burning coal is that we can stop decapitating our mountains. I believe this practice to be a heinous act against nature and a scourge to people currently living in those areas and to future generations. Also, we can worry less about all the toxic materials stored in huge retention ponds with earthen dams that have failed many times, releasing the toxic materials into the local environment and water supply.
April 16th, 2012 at 11:10 am
The mountaintop miners say, “show us an alternative”… Grow Olive Tree Bio-Diesel. Plant a tree once, harvest Olives to make diesel for 300-400 years. http://olivebiodiesel.com/
There’s an alternative, but it takes hard work and planning, not just running a bulldozer.
November 5th, 2012 at 1:24 pm
Trying to find a video from Sundance Channel documentary about this topic.
April 19th, 2013 at 10:21 am
We have been installing solar solutions since 1985 and are confused by the dominance of coal since new real time metrics demonstrate solar is practical and affordable. We are working hard to bring and renewable solution to those who really want to be the change and stop the suffering. Sincerely from Michigan.
May 4th, 2015 at 3:50 pm
Return of the Home Land. Let’s deal with getting our land back for the people, the animals, and our claim to the natural resources to stop the destruction. You can make a difference by signing today!! Sign and Share!!
http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/return-of-the-home-land
Principal Chief Randy TwoBears Standing TaTe