Comments on: Blessing of Peace and Justice for the Mountains of Appalachia http://ilovemountains.org/news/93 END MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL COAL MINING IN APPALACHIA! Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:04:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.18 By: Jeff Fackenthal http://ilovemountains.org/news/93#comment-58851 Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:04:04 +0000 http://ilovemountains.org/prayers/93#comment-58851 Under the eminent domain law, why not try to build homes or wind turbines to generate jobs and alternative energy on tracts of land owned by the coal minig companies. The way the law has been interpreted is very loose. As long as there is a public good to come out, you can tie them up for years and make caol mining less profitable for them.
Another stategy to employ would be to have the mining companies have to install basic a desedimentation process to preserve the water downstream under the clean water act. I am no lawyer, but am sure there could be suits that could apply to mineral and sediment contamination of drinking water. With the production of sulphuric acid into the air , after electric power generation, if you could show the link to sulphuric dioxide to the contamination of places east of power stations that would be a great benefit to you as well.

]]> By: John Essex http://ilovemountains.org/news/93#comment-30032 Mon, 26 May 2008 11:37:11 +0000 http://ilovemountains.org/prayers/93#comment-30032 “Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth.”

John the Baptist
Luke 3:5

]]> By: Barbara Strangfeld http://ilovemountains.org/news/93#comment-11247 Sat, 12 May 2007 23:16:43 +0000 http://ilovemountains.org/prayers/93#comment-11247 Matthew, I am a member of the ELCA and will be using this beautiful prayer in a presentation I do tomorrow (Sunday, May 13th)for our adult Sunday School Class on Mountaintop Removal Mining.

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