http://ilovemountains.org/news/38 END MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL COAL MINING IN APPALACHIA! Tue, 18 May 2010 20:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.18 http://ilovemountains.org/news/38#comment-39397 Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:17:25 +0000 http://ilovemountains.org/mountain-near-sylvester/38#comment-39397 The problems in sylvester and the coal river are horrible.My mother grew up in the 1970s and she showed state offials where coal mines where dumping sludge and diesel fuel in the coal river. My gradmother Betty Long has fought with elk run coal man times,mines need to be cleaned up.This is my opinion

]]> http://ilovemountains.org/news/38#comment-38773 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:43:16 +0000 http://ilovemountains.org/mountain-near-sylvester/38#comment-38773 Do you know what drives the WV economy? Do you know why you have lights on in your house? Do you like the dark? ….hate to tell you, but without coal WV would be in poverty. We are already one of the poorest states in the US. No coal would put WV at the top of that list….and you would not have any lights!

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