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Virginia Rising: Rally to save Ison Rock Ridge next Wednesday!
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
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Only one week left until we gather in Washington DC at the Environmental Protection Agency to demand protection for Ison Rock Ridge!
Will you join us on November 16th?
In Wise County Virginia, a mountain known as Ison Rock Ridge is slated to be destroyed by a 1,200 acre mountaintop removal coal mine. Ison Rock Ridge sits above five small communities made up of 1,800 people. If the permit is approved, the quality of life for these people would effectively be destroyed as well.
The proposed mountaintop removal permit boundary calls for mining 300 feet from some community members’ homes as well as the burying of headwater streams that feed the creeks running through their communities.
Your efforts have held this permit at bay for years but now the EPA is close to making a final decision, and the state is siding with the coal companies. We need to make our voices heard louder than ever by showing up at their doorsteps and demanding justice.
On November 16th, we will gather in DC in front of the EPA headquarters alongside community members from Wise County to ask the EPA to Keep Ison Rock Ridge Standing.
I Love Mountains is teaming up with the Wise Energy for Virginia Coalition and others to bring hundreds of people to the doorstep of the U.S. EPA. The EPA’s authority is all that stands in the way of blasting on Ison Rock Ridge but the agency has indicated that it is considering allowing the permit to move forward!
No matter where you are from, please join us in DC for Virginia Rising: the rally to keep Ison Rock Ridge Standing!
When: Wednesday November 16th, 12:00 PM
Where:U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Headquarters, Ariel Rios Building, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW (Federal Triangle Metro)
Click here for the facebook event, invite your friends!
For the Mountains,
Matt Wasson
iLoveMountains.org
November 14th, 2011 at 10:04 pm
I’ll be there! Come stand in solidarity with the people from Wise County to STOP MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL for mining coal. We are very close to losing one more mountaintop!