This is a map of the gob piles in Virginia that are listed with the state Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. The gob piles were digitized by Appalachian Voices based on photocopies of 1:24,000 scale USGS quarter-quads provided to Appalachian Voices by DMME in May, 2006. The popup balloons list the USGS quad in which the pile is located as well as the approximate acreage of the pile provided by DMME.
November 15th, 2007 – The following email was sent to over 23,000 supporters of iLoveMountains.org. To sign up to receive free email alerts, click here.
Dear Friend,
For too long, politicians have written off mountaintop removal coal mining as a regional issue — but in truth itÃs a national disgrace
That’s why today we’re launching “My Connection” — a major new campaign and a new online tool that shows how your electric company — and power companies across America — are connected to mountaintop removal.
Click here to see how you’re connected — and learn what you can do to end that connection:
http://ilovemountains.org/myconnection
For years, coal companies have tried to hide the dirty secret behind mountaintop coal — that it comes at the the cost of mountains, communities and even lives.
Yet if you live east of the Mississippi, odds are some of your power comes directly from burning coal from mountaintop removal. And even if you live in California, our tool shows how the money you pay in your electric bill goes into the pockets of mountaintop removal coal companies.
Wherever we live, we all have a connection to mountaintop removal coal mining ñ and that means itÃs up to us to do something about it.
Please, visit My Connection to see how your electricity is connected to mountaintop removal — then take action and demand that your power company stop using mountaintop removal coal:
http://ilovemountains.org/myconnection
In the past year, our efforts to raise awareness about the devastation of mountaintop removal coal mining have made tremendous gains.
Now, with this major new campaign and webtool utilizing Google Maps and Google Earth, we can show how mountaintop removal coal mining affects and involves Americans all across the country — and tell the stories of the families who live in the shadows of these mines.
But we need your help to get the word out. Please, forward this email on to your friends and family and ask them to visit iLoveMountains.org to learn how they’re connected to mountaintop coal.
The coal companies want you to believe that mountaintop removal is just a local issue. But nearly every American is connected to mountaintop removal in some way, and ending this practice is our shared national responsiblity.
So please, visit My Connection, take action, and spread the word:
http://ilovemountains.org/myconnection
Thank you for all that you do to defend our mountains.
Mary Anne Hitt
iLoveMountains.org
PS The My Connection campaign is already attracting national attention. Click here to read today’s story about iLoveMountains in the Wall Street Journal:
Here is the article about the “My Connection” campaign published in the Wall Street Journal on November 15th, 2007:
Activists Start Googling – Activists trying to save the planet are adding Google Earth to their arsenals.
Appalachian Voices, which campaigns against coal mining that removes mountaintops, is among those leading the way. The Boone, N.C., nonprofit and partner of community organizations today will begin directing consumers who enter their ZIP Codes on its site to images of specific mountaintops that have been razed to provide coal for their electricity providers, and potentially for their own homes.
The new service uses the mapping and aerial imagery provided by Google Inc.’s Earth and Maps offerings to show actual pictures of the mountaintops. The Google services are popular for providing free detailed aerial images of most places in the world, allowing computer users to easily zoom in for a peek. Google Maps can be accessed over the Web, and Google Earth requires special software be installed on a user’s computer.
Now those Google programs are making possible efforts to raise the awareness of Americans to the impact of their consumer choices, even if it is felt primarily in other states or across oceans. Google, Mountain View, Calif., says other groups are preparing projects that show consumers their impact on climate change. Some green businesses are developing similar applications as well.
The latest efforts are nascent, and it remains unclear whether they will reach people who aren’t already sold on the underlying causes. But the theory is that consumers will be less likely to buy lumber from clear-cutting operations or jewels from mines that pollute surrounding areas, for example, when confronted with images of the specific impact. Appalachian Voices is providing individuals with links to protest to their legislators or power companies about the mining, which it says is bad for the environment, miners and the local communities.
“When you can show people they have a direct connection to it, it makes it that much more relevant to their day-to-day life,” says Mary Anne Hitt, Appalachian Voices’ executive director.
Using the nonprofit’s new service a person in Washington, for example, might learn that there are four power plants feeding his electricity provider that use coal mined with mountaintop-removal methods. A satellite map shows their locations and the mines they draw from, which the individual can zoom in on. The Appalachian Voices site — ilovemountains.org/myconnection — provides related data, such as photos, videos and information about the mines and local communities. A user can download data about the mines he is connected to and zoom around them in the separate Google Earth software.
Rebecca Moore, manager of the Google Earth Outreach program, calls the Appalachian Voices service “very cutting edge” and says other groups are preparing similar ones. The Earth Outreach program, officially rolled out in June, provides technical advice and training to nonprofits interested in using Google Earth.
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Ms. Hitt says her presentations to legislators, businesspeople and citizens about mountaintop-removal mining gained power last year when she started using Google Earth. Appalachian Voices made available maps and aerial images from Google Earth and Maps on the Web so individuals could navigate the affected areas.
For some, Appalachian Voices’ newest service shows ways in which virtual worlds such as Google Earth and individuals’ experience of the real world will increasingly overlap.” Being able to browse one’s patterns of consumption virtually and the spatial ramifications of them is a particularly thoughtful example of the sorts of things we’ll likely be doing in a variety of ways from the commercial to the philanthropic,” says Nicholas de Monchaux, an assistant professor of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.
Originally published in the Wall Street Journal on November 15th, 2007. Click here to read the entire article. (you’ll need to signup for subscription to Journal online.)
August 15, 2007
A True Hero: 22 years and going strong!
CNN Heroes debuted the story “Larry Gibson: Defending the Planet” on Tuesday, 8/14, during Anderson Cooper 360. It will also be aired this Thurs 8/16 and Sun 8/19 all day ON CNN & CNN HEADLINE NEWS. (2 separate channels). An extended version will be available on the CNN Hero’s website next week.
For more than 200 years, Larry Gibson’s ancestors have lived on Kayford Mountain in the Appalachians of West Virginia. Today, he is fighting to protect his coal-rich land from mountaintop blasting and the consequences he fears it would have for the environment.
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Ansted, WV group fears devastation to local community
November 10, 2007
A preservation group in Ansted sponsored a blessing ceremony Saturday morning as they sought divine intervention to stop what they fear will be devastation in the area between the Gauley River and the New River.
Members of The Ansted Historic Preservation Council Inc. believe the timbering and mining proposed for the area just outside of Ansted will affect a nearly 3,000-acre watershed.
In September, members of the newly formed group testified at a packed Department of Environmental Protection agency hearing, and asked state officials to deny a national pollution discharge permit for Powellton Coal Co. LLC, the company that plans the large mining operation. The company wants to discharge into Rich Creek, a trout stream and a tributary to Gauley River.
At the hearing, they also voiced their fears that the coal seams to be mined will cause toxic levels of selenium to be released into the waters. Several communities use water from the upper Kanawha River for drinking water.
The area to be mined is covered with trees and creates a backdrop for the Gauley Mountain Recreation Area. People in Ansted are also developing a trail system that follows tributaries that could be impacted by water pollution.
Father Roy Crist, who heads the group, will offer the blessing Saturday. He is a Missioner of the New River Episcopal Ministries. He said he wants everyone to know his group does not oppose mining.
“Mining is an honorable profession. We admire and respect those who work in the mines. But mountaintop removal is a crime against man and nature and must be stopped while we still have mountains left. These corporations rip, rape and run, and leave us with unredeemable land, toxic streams and rivers and air pollution which cause illnesses and disease.”
In her communications with DEP officials, Katheryne Hoffman, secretary to the Hawks Nest State Park Foundation, wrote that the connectivity of the streams worries her.
“At Gauley Bridge is the confluence of three rivers, the Gauley, the New and the Kanawha. The New is a National River, the Gauley runs through the Gauley River Recreation Area and both flow into the Kanawha. Rich Creek flows into the Gauley. Bridge Fork, West Lake Creek, Shade Creek and Mill Creek may also be affected in various ways by this operation. That these waters remain as unpolluted as possible is critical to the economic engine now fueling Fayette County, which is not coal, but tourism.”
Although the operation is outside the corporate limits of his town, the mayor of Ansted, R.A. Hobbs, told DEP officials he worried about the company’s plans to use settlement ditches instead of settlement ponds. Hobbs also explained times when Ansted has flooded. He said he feared the increased potential for flooding from the proposed mine ditch system would threaten his town with flooding.
State inspectors have previously cited Powellton Coal for allowing sediment to enter Rich Creek and the Gauley River. Powellton Coal has an 18,000-acre tract located between Ansted, Gauley Bridge and Jodie in Fayette County. A spokesman for the company said Thursday that he could not comment for this story.
Reprinted from the Charleston Gazette
By Susan Williams
See more on the ongoing organizing in the Ansted, WV in the latest Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition newsletter.
Over 100 gathered to pray for an end to devastation from mountaintop removal mining
CABIN CREEK, W.VA. — Over 100 people of all ages and faiths gathered on Kayford Mountain Saturday (Oct. 20) at a prayer vigil for the mountains and people of Appalachia affected by mountaintop removal mining. Religious leaders representing a range of denominations and backgrounds led prayers and hymns honoring the state’s mountains and asking for the healing of people harmed by surface mining.
The vigil, hosted by the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, a West Virginia group fighting mountaintop removal, brought together families, college students and faith-based groups from across the state and region with attendees from as far as Michigan and South Carolina. The gathering came on the heels of last week’s Council of Churches statement condemning mountaintop removal as “unprecedented and permanent.”
“We organized this event to help connect religious communities in the region and hope it will compel people of faith to tell the story of what mountaintop removal is doing to our people,” said Rev. Robin Blakeman, a Presbyterian minister and OVEC volunteer who organized the event.
Throughout the vigil, people directly impacted by this extreme form of mining shared their experiences, including Pauline Canterberry of Sylvester, one of the famed “Sylvester DustBusters.” She explained how coal dust covers the inside of Sylvester residents’ homes, clogging indoor air filters and in some cases causing black lung disease in people who have never entered a mine.
Brenda McCoy of Mingo County held up jars of dark red and black water from people’s homes in her community and explained how their water was poisoned by the underground injection of coal sludge, a waste product from coal preparation plants. People in Mingo County just recently won access to city water from the state after their water was declared toxic. Other communities with similar water issues are also facing unusually high levels of cancer and organ trouble, according to OVEC.
“I think we are looking for a transformation of the heart, to care and weep for God’s creation, and become instruments of healing for the earth and justice for people,” said Allen Johnson, coordinator of Christians for the Mountains, an organization working to rally Christians for solutions to mountaintop removal.
After prayers led by Presbyterian, Unitarian, Episcopal and United Methodist pastors, and testimonies from directly impacted residents from all over southern West Virginia, the group walked to a spot on Kayford Mountain from which they could overlook part of the 12,000 acres of mountaintop removal operations that are consuming the mountain.
“I was blown away that something like this could happen in the United States. It looked like a scar on the land, like a huge bomb had been dropped in the mountains,” said Briana McElfish, a Marshall University student from Putnam County. “We have to look for different ways to get energy. Our country’s coal dependence affects us the most, so we, more than anyone else, should be looking at alternatives. We should be leading the way in renewable energy and efficient technologies, creating jobs and protecting our people.”
“So many children and families are harmed by mountaintop removal in this state. I hope the faith community gets more organized and aware and acts from a deep theological place making this one of the primary moral and ethical concerns for people of faith in our area,” said Blakeman.
In mountaintop removal, coal companies raze forests, then use explosives and giant machines to scalp hundreds of feet off the tops of mountains, in order to get to thin seams of coal. Central Appalachia’s forests are some of the most biologically diverse temperate forests on earth, and studies show mountaintops-removal-mined forests may not recover for centuries.
Hundreds of millions of tons of rubble from the blasted mountaintops is pushed into nearby valleys, burying streams and creating valley fills. In West Virginia, over 1,200 miles of biologically crucial headwaters streams have already been buried or impacted by valley fills.
Concerned citizens say mountaintop removal not only destroys water and forests, but that it also erodes mountain culture. Some people are driven away, and those who do stay see their property devalued and their water wells ruined. The noise and silica-laden dust from blasting at the mine sites adversely impacts people’s health. Studies have shown that valley fills mountaintop removal exacerbates flooding during storm events.
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Photos by Liz Veazey. See more photos here
Description: On the border between Kentucky and Virginia, about one mile away from Pardee, in Wise County, VA
Home is defined as “a place where a person can find refuge and safety; it is a place to live in security.” Appalachia, Virginia residents Dennis Davidson and his wife Cindy Davidson, worked hard to provide a home for their two sons, Jeremy and Zachary. Despite their efforts to create both security and safety for their boys, the Davidson’s home was destroyed on August 19, 2004.
Jeremy, their youngest son, was asleep in his room when a half-ton boulder plummeted through his bedroom wall. The dislodged boulder, which had fallen 649 feet, flattened a path across the bed where Jeremy lay. In an instant, the boulder killed young Jeremy’s future and crushed his parents’ and many Virginians’ hearts. Jeremy was three-years-old.
The A&G Coal Corp, a strip mining operation, was responsible for the displaced boulder. According to officials, a bulldozer operator working the night shift for A & G Coal Corp unknowingly knocked the boulder loose. The employee was working above and directly behind the Davidson’s home to widen “a road to handle 18-wheel coal hauling trucks at a mine called Strip Number 13.”
Accidents do happen, but a heartbroken family and a mass of angry Virginians concluded that this accident cost too much to go unnoticed. Many Virginians continue to be outraged by the effect that strip-mining has on their communities and lives.
“The death of an innocent child, who had nothing to do with what’s going on, has brought us together,” said Carl “Pete” Ramey, a coal miner turned anti-strip-mining activist. “I think a lot of people feel guilty they didn’t do something before.”
However, due to the United States escalating demand for coal, the population of strip mines continues to increase in regions of Virginia and West Virginia. Such demand has made neighborhoods, like the Davidson’s, land mines for locals to live in.
Click here to learn more about Black Mountain, VA and the communities that live nearby.
Summary contributed by Angie Delynn Ryan courtesy of Appalachian Voices.
In this study, the authors found that the volume of coal mining has a significant impact on hospitalization risk, particularly for hypertension and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The findings of this study showed the odds for hospitalization for COPD increased 1% for each 1462 tons of coal produced and the odds of hospitalization for hypertension increased 1% for every 1873 tons. Both of these conditions are related to exposure to particulates and other pollution associated with coal mining. The authors also point out other effects of the production and consumption of coal including air pollution, occupational hazards, and global climate change.
Hendryx, M., M. Ahern, and T. Nurkiewicz. (2011) “Hospitalization Patterns Associated with Appalachian Coal Mining.” Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Part A, 70: 2064-70.
iLoveMountains is being recognized nationwide as one of the most innovative advocacy sites on the web.
* CNET pointed to the National Memorial for the Mountains as an example of the tremendous power of Google Earth to change the real world.
* A blogger on NetSquared included iLoveMountains in his 2006 list of Best Internet Marketing for a Cause.
* In December, the iLoveMountains.org website was discussed on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show, and she posted a link for her listeners.
* Worldwatch Institute has helped spread the word by covering mountaintop removal and iLoveMountains.org.
In their article “Hi-Tech Advocacy in Action” the editors of FundraisingSuccess magazine featured iLoveMountains as one of the best examples of using the web to involve and connect with thousands of new supporters. According to the article:
Thanks to cutting-edge technology, online advocacy campaigns are not only possible, but they can bring an issue located hundreds or thousands of miles away right to constituents’ backyard in ways that direct mail can’t.
The “I Love Mountains” campaign is a perfect example of this. A collaboration by local, state and regional organizations across Appalachia working together to end mountaintop removal, a type of coal mining where the tops of mountains are removed and mined for coal, I Love Mountains is operated through iLoveMountains.org, a site produced by Boone, N.C.-based environmental organization Appalachian Voices. It uses cutting-edge technology to inform and involve visitors in their efforts to save the mountains.
How does it do this? One of the coolest involvement features of the site is the pledge sign-up. When visitors fill in their name and contact information pledging to help stop mountaintop removal, they’re taken to a “personal impact page” that displays each person who has pledged as a dot on a map of the United States. A pledger can pass the word on to friends and invite them to pledge, and then their page will chart the number of friends that have been invited to support the campaign, and the number of friends their friends have invited. The personal impact page also shows the top 10 most active participants and the number of friends they’ve passed the word on to. These names link to each pledger’s personal impact page and, from there, connect to the personal impact pages of any of the friends they’ve invited.
“You can actually see the network of your influence spreading throughout the country” Mary Anne Hitt, executive director of Appalachian Voices, says.
An Associated Press Story on the National Memorial for the Mountains printed on November 4th has been picked up by newspapers and television station websites across the country. The story was written by Kentucky-based AP Writer Samira Jafari and puts the devastation caused by mountaintop removal in a human context. The story leads from the perspective of Benny Campbell, a resident of the Kentucky coalfields:
Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets his porch and car if a few days go by without rain. His electricity goes out repeatedly when the coal miners accidentally knock down power lines.
But the worst thing of all, he says, is that the mountain peaks that once loomed over his lifelong eastern Kentucky home have been flattened by dynamite and bulldozers.
“When I was young, it was a really pretty place,” said Campbel, 53, who lives in a hollow called Bull Creek near Vicco. “Now it’s just a rock pile. You can’t do nothing with it.”
The story goes on to tell how iLoveMountains.org uses new technologies – particularly Google Earth – to lift the cloak of secrecy that has allowed mountaintop removal to continue.
Now environmentalists have found a way to let the rest of the world see what mountaintop coal mining has done to Appalachia: They have started a Web site that uses the Google Earth database to enable people to see aerial reconnaissance photos of the scarred countryside.
“The point is mountaintop removal has gone on under a cloak of secrecy,” said Mary Anne Hitt, executive director of Appalachian Voices, one of a half-dozen environmental groups involved in the Internet campaign. “Unless you have the experience of flying over the region in a small plane, it’s hard to understand the scale of mountaintop removal.”
Below is a list of media outlet websites currently running the story:
| NEW VIEW: Google maps show impact of mining Winston-Salem Journal (subscription), NC – Nov 4, 2006 AP. Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets his porch … |
| Groups use Google program to show effects of mountaintop mining WTVF, TN – Nov 4, 2006 VICCO, Ky. Environmentalists in eastern Kentucky are using a computer program to boost their case against mountaintop mining. They … |
| Environmental Groups Use Online Satellite Maps To Show Destruction All Headline News – Nov 4, 2006 Vicco, KY (AHN) – Mountain top mining in rural Kentucky, which uses dynamites and bulldozers to level land in order to find mineral deposits, has irked … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight USA Today – Nov 5, 2006 By Samira Jafari, AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Online Maps Aid Eco Mine Fight Wired News – Nov 5, 2006 AP 10:40 AM Nov, 05, 2006. VICCO, Kentucky — Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight San Jose Mercury News, USA – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight CBS News, New York – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI AP Writer. (AP) Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight Salon – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI AP Writer. November 04,2006 | VICCO, Ky. — Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Environmentalists use Google Earth to fight mountaintop mining San Francisco Chronicle, USA – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer. Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps In Mine Fight Guardian Unlimited, UK – Nov 4, 2006 From AP. AP Photo KYSJ601. By SAMIRA JAFARI. AP Writer. VICCO, Ky. (AP) – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight FOX News – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight Washington Post, United States – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI. AP. VICCO, Ky. — Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight San Francisco Chronicle, USA – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer. Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight Los Angeles Times, CA – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer. VICCO, Ky. — Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Environmentalists use Google Earth to fight mountaintop mining San Jose Mercury News, USA – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight Forbes, NY – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI 11.04.06, 2:07 PM ET. Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Houston Chronicle, United States – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI AP Writer. © 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Ky. man laments mountaintop mining, others sing its praises Wilmington Morning Star, NC – 5 hours ago By Samira Jafari,. AP. By Samira Jafari,. AP. Vicco, Ky. | Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed rattles … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Ottawa Recorder, Canada – Nov 6, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer Sat Nov 4, 10:43 PM ET. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Jackson News-Tribune, WY – Nov 6, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer Sat Nov 4, 10:43 PM ET. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Prescott Herald, AZ – Nov 6, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer Sat Nov 4, 10:43 PM ET. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight The Kindred Times, Utah – Nov 6, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer Sat Nov 4, 10:43 PM ET. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight The Benton Crier, Iowa – Nov 6, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer Sat Nov 4, 10:43 PM ET. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Dunton Springs Evening Post, Colorado – Nov 6, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer Sat Nov 4, 10:43 PM ET. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Brocktown News, USA – Nov 6, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer Sat Nov 4, 10:43 PM ET. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Pierceland Herald, Canada – Nov 6, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer Sat Nov 4, 10:43 PM ET. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Hinesberg Journal, Canada – Nov 6, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer Sat Nov 4, 10:43 PM ET. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Jordan Falls News, Iowa – Nov 6, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer Sat Nov 4, 10:43 PM ET. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Sky Valley Journal, USA – Nov 6, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer Sat Nov 4, 10:43 PM ET. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Akron Farm Report, NE – Nov 6, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer Sat Nov 4, 10:43 PM ET. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight White Rock Reviewer, SD – Nov 6, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer Sat Nov 4, 10:43 PM ET. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight New Hope Courier, Oklahoma – Nov 6, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer Sat Nov 4, 10:43 PM ET. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight The Westfall Weekly News, Canada – Nov 6, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer Sat Nov 4, 10:43 PM ET. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Ely Times, USA – Nov 6, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer Sat Nov 4, 10:43 PM ET. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Olberlin, KS – Nov 6, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer Sat Nov 4, 10:43 PM ET. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Meadow Free Press, ID – Nov 6, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer Sat Nov 4, 10:43 PM ET. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight Today’s THV, AR – Nov 6, 2006 Vicco, KY — Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Environmental groups use Google Earth to illustrate effects of … PlanetSave.com, ME – Nov 6, 2006 VICCO, Ky. (AP) _ Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight Wyoming News, WY – Nov 6, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI Monday, November 06, 2006. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Herald News Daily, ND – Nov 5, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer Sat Nov 4, 10:43 PM ET. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Leading The Charge, Australia – Nov 5, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP Writer Sat Nov 4, 10:43 PM ET. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight MyFox Washington DC, DC – Nov 5, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI. AP Writer. VICCO, Ky. — Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| News briefs from around Kentucky at 5:58 am EST Kentucky.com, KY – Nov 5, 2006 AP. BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Hundreds of friends, family and fellow law enforcement officers paid tribute Saturday to a south-central … |
| Groups use Web to show aerial effects of mining Bradenton Herald, United States – Nov 5, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Mountaintop-removal opponents state their case with Google images Kentucky.com, KY – Nov 5, 2006 By Samira Jafari. AP. VICCO – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray … |
| Critics Say Mining Makes Molehills Of Mountains Tampa Tribune, FL – Nov 5, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI AP. VICCO, KY. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Anti-mining group pins hopes online Myrtle Beach Sun News, SC – Nov 5, 2006 By Samira Jafari. AP. VICCO – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed rattles up to several times a day from blasting. … |
| Google Program Used To Show Effects Of Mountaintop Mining WCPO, OH – Nov 4, 2006 Reported by: AP. VICCO, Ky. (AP) — Environmentalists in eastern Kentucky are using a computer program to boost their case against mountaintop mining. … |
| Group fights mining of Ky. mountaintops Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription), TN – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI, AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed rattles up to several times a day from blasting. … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight The State, SC – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Centre Daily Times, PA – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Environmental groups use Google Earth to illustrate effects of … San Diego Union Tribune, United States – Nov 4, 2006 By Samira Jafari. AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Environmentalists use Google Earth to fight mountaintop mining North County Times, CA – Nov 4, 2006 By: SAMIRA JAFARI – AP. VICCO, Ky. — Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Contra Costa Times, CA – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight The Ledger, FL – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI. AP Writer. Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight The Times and Democrat, SC – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray … |
| Environmentalists use Google Earth to fight mountaintop mining San Diego Union Tribune, United States – Nov 4, 2006 By Samira Jafari. AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Groups Use Google Program To Show Effects Of Mountaintop Mining WAVE, KY – Nov 4, 2006 (VICCO, Ky.) — Environmentalists in eastern Kentucky are using a computer program to boost their case against mountaintop mining. … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight Sun-Sentinel.com, FL – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI. AP Writer. VICCO, Ky. — Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps In Mine Fight WRAL.com, NC – Nov 4, 2006 VICCO, Ky. — Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Kansas.com, KS – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight The Casper Star Tribune, WY – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI Saturday, November 04, 2006. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight Baltimore Sun, United States – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI. AP Writer. VICCO, Ky. // Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Activists Survey Mountain Mines With Google Earth CBS 5, CA – Nov 4, 2006 (AP) MOUNTAIN VIEW Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight Carlisle Sentinel, PA – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight Wyoming News, WY – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI Saturday, November 04, 2006. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Environmentalists use Google Earth to fight mountaintop mining Monterey County Herald, CA – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Environmentalists use Google Earth to fight mountaintop mining Fresno Bee (subscription), CA – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI,. Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Belleville News-Democrat, IL – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight Worcester Telegram, MA – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI. AP Writer. VICCO, Ky.- Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Myrtle Beach Sun News, SC – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Monterey County Herald, CA – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight Town Hall, DC – Nov 4, 2006 Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets his porch and … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Wilkes Barre Times-Leader, PA – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Environmentalists use Google Earth to fight mountaintop mining Press-Enterprise (subscription), CA – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI. AP. Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight MLive.com, MI – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI. AP. VICCO, Ky. (AP) – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Environmentalists use Google Earth to fight mountaintop mining Times Daily (subscription), AL – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI. AP Writer. Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight Newsday, NY – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI. AP Writer. VICCO, Ky. — Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Environmentalists use Google Earth to fight mountaintop mining San Luis Obispo Tribune, CA – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight OregonLive.com, OR – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI. AP. VICCO, Ky. (AP) – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Charlotte Observer, NC – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Times Picayune, LA – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI. AP. VICCO, Ky. (AP) – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Biloxi Sun Herald, USA – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Miami Herald, FL – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Bradenton Herald, United States – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Kansas City Star, MO – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight Tuscaloosa News (subscription), AL – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI. AP Writer. Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Penn Live, PA – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI. AP. VICCO, Ky. (AP) – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Pioneer Press, MN – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Contra Costa Times, CA – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Environmentalists use Google Earth to fight mountaintop mining Contra Costa Times, CA – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight Times Daily (subscription), AL – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI. AP Writer. Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Centre Daily Times, PA – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight Wilmington Morning Star, NC – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI. AP Writer. VICCO, Ky. | Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Kentucky.com, KY – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Eco Groups Use Online Maps in Mine Fight KSL-TV, UT – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI. AP Writer. VICCO, Ky. (AP) – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. … |
| Eco groups use online maps in mine fight Fort Wayne News Sentinel, IN – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed is rattled by the blasting. Gray dust blankets … |
| Groups use Google program to show effects of mountaintop mining Florida Times-Union, FL – Nov 4, 2006 By SAMIRA JAFARI. AP Writer. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed rattles up to several times a day from blasting. … |
| Groups use Google program to show effects of mountaintop mining Kentucky.com, KY – Nov 4, 2006 AP. VICCO, Ky. – Benny Campbell experiences mountaintop mining day and night. His bed rattles up to several times a day from blasting. … |
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