Communities, Welcome to the Community of Rawl, 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 Rawl 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. |
November 26th, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Currently, I live in Marquette, MI which is way up north in the Upper Peninsula. Our local power company is Marquette Board of Light & Power and they own the local Shiras Power Plant at the south end of town. Needless to say, I was appalled to learn our power company is purchasing coal produced by the mountaintop removal mining project at Rawl, W. Virginia. I’m currently gathering information so I can send a lettter to the power company, the County Board of Commissioners, our representatives in Congress, and the local newspaper. To make matters worse, the Shiras Power Plant is a technological dinosaur with an intensity index of 2794!
December 30th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
Super, super information on a devestating problem.
thank you.
August 21st, 2008 at 11:57 am
i had no idea! thank you for this information. i LOVE the mountains! i LOVE the trees! we are losing more and more of our natural resources, forests included. we NEED the forests!
let’s keep the coal mining underground where possible.
using the wind for energy … sounds good. i know there are pros and cons to everything. i also think that whoever ‘owns the power’ can practically own the people’s pocket book, and that much of their lives, no matter what the source.
what are ya gonna do, ya know? wind is better than a lot of other sources, but there is still more to ponder.
October 17th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
I am from Bennington, Vermont and in southern Vermont. We get our power from Central Vermont Pub Service Corp. and I had no idea that we get the power from the mountain top removal in Rawl, West Virginia. Without my class at the University of Hartford I would have never known. I can’t believe all the pain and suffering these people are having to deal with just for us to have power. I am so sorry to all of those peoples lives I am hurting everyday.
March 17th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
I live in Norwich Connecticut. We are forming an energy task force here in Norwich and I look forward to ending our use of coal produced by mountaintop removal mining in Rawl, W. Virginia.
May 18th, 2009 at 12:51 am
Please earnestly support S696, HR1310, & HR2169.
Thank you.
January 19th, 2010 at 12:52 am
I think is great to keep people informed about this and other very important environment issues to create sensitivity in our population, which is undoubtely required nowadays when people is selfish and apathic to nature’s and society’s pain. I will e-mail my contacts information about this important issue, i am sure the great majority of our countrymen do not approve these practices.
February 4th, 2010 at 4:59 pm
Where are the pros and cons?
April 7th, 2010 at 9:04 am
I live in Ohio. I have been following the story of MTR destruction for some time and I am a member and supporter of OVEC. I simply wish to offer sincere and heartfelt thanks to the people at OVEC, the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy, and other organizations and people who are joined in opposing MTR, and who wish to bring a better quality of life to the people of this region of the country. I intend to continue to help support this important work.
April 29th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
I live in New Hampshire where we have an old and filthy old coal plant in Bow. I have spoken out against keeping it open at meetings at the state house in Concord. The air pollution and smog in our white mountains is so thick sometimes you can’t even see near by mountains when you are top of them. I have been educating people about the use of coal and MTR for years . This Earth Day I worked with students at Pelham High School. Very few students new about MTR or that we even burn coal in NH for 52% of our energy. We made 6 “Healing Blankets” for the earth. This summer I will be traveling with a group of people from my area and bring them to Larry Gibson’s to see for themselves.
May 14th, 2010 at 8:42 pm
This surprised me, just how close this is to a major feed line into New England. IT goes to show just how close Mountaintop Removal is to everyone.
March 24th, 2011 at 1:23 pm
I lived in Rawl wva from 1972 to 1986.My grandad gave to coal mine all mining rights to our property we did not have running water we had a well and grandad dug a hole on the mountain and ran a water hose to our house we drank the water from both places and the water was cloudy and orange looking back then.I now live in tennessee and i am 38 and disabled i have kidney problems,lung disease,rashes,hives,memeroy problems,and high allergeys its like im alleric to myself.The doctors here have been trying to find out what is causing so maney health problems.we also burned coal.oh and my hair falls out in patches the doctors here thought it may be stress im not sure now,my sister mom brother grandad and step grandmother has the same problems and also cancer my grandad and mom had it and now we watch close to my health and also i to get cysts and boils and now my to kids are having the same health problems.can someone tell me who to contact to see if i to have been exposed to these toxians.
July 13th, 2011 at 9:44 am
This is just awful. If you’re interested in a solution, with blueprints! please examine the venus project; it goes much further than just solving our problems of coal companies destroying our mountains, for what are they really doing wrong? It is a system disorder, and it seems to be fatal. Everything is about profit, instead of the well being of people, this is the major problem and not many people can see that we have the technology to stop using money alltogether and utilize machines to their fullest potential, eliminating the need for people to do unethical things for profit. This IS the future and if we don’t support this and see this put into action, we may very well cease to be. http://www.thevenusproject.com