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Your Voice is Needed to Protect Our Streams
Thursday, July 15th, 2010
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As a parting gift to Big Coal, in late 2008 the Bush administration gutted the Stream Buffer Zone rule, which protected our nation’s streams and waterways from the worst coal industry abuses.
The old rule was a good rule – but it was never properly enforced. Today, however, instead of reinstating and enforcing the old stream buffer zone rule, the Obama administration is proposing totally new guidelines that would regulate how — and whether — America’s streams can be filled with waste from mining operations.
But before they’ll write the new regulations, the administration has decided to gather information for an Environmental Impact Statement. To that end, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) is requesting your opinion on what requirements a new stream protection rule should include.
Click hear to comment today and demand that our streams stay clean of toxic mining waste:
http://ilovemountains.org/stream-protection/
This is a tremendous opportunity to make your voice heard on the kind of protections our streams deserve — before the rule is written.
Please, take just a few minutes today to make sure that your views are taken into account and our streams are protected from the devastation of mountaintop removal coal mining.
Click hear to submit your comments today.
Thank you for taking action.
Matt Wasson
iLoveMountains.org
July 15th, 2010 at 3:04 pm
As I have grown older, I have watched colonial America dig deeper into our homelands and destroy billions of years of geological evolution: eternal disruption. As long as money is spent on non-renewable resources and money accumulates, people will want to tear up the beauty that connects us to life. The Christian-styled mythologies of good and evil continue to evolve among the extremes of our brief lives on this once beautiful earth.
Another near 8,000 acres of land in the historic Saline Valley of southeastern Illinois are slated for doom
beginning as early as August 1, 2010, resources tell me. The cultural history of hundreds of communities, past and present, will be lost forever. This can be stopped, must be stopped. Check in with us on how you may help.
Paselo-be well
July 22nd, 2010 at 1:14 pm
I am happy to report that my radio show is covering this along with telling people about the deadline. I wasn’t sure if anyone was paying attention until Teusday night’s show when a man named Rick Osmon called in to report his findings at the meeting held in Indiana.
You can hear what Rick had to say on our website by scrolling down on the front page to the archive for July 20th. We covered this subject for most of the show.
Matt if your reading this we would love to have you as a guest speaker. The mic is yours for as long as you want it.
Oro and Paula