SAVE A SURFACE MINER - SHOOT A TREE HUGGER (spotted on a car on US-119S)

 

Or, we could band together to destroy the coal companies that are pillaging our homeland, and in so doing, save the mountains that have given both the surface miner and the tree hugger's ancestors clean water to drink, abundant food, and a breathtaking landscape for eons.   Yes, there was life (and happiness) before coal..  What will be left when the strip miner has worked himself out of a job?

Tree Sit Halts Blasting on Coal River Mountain!

My heart sings! 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JANUARY 21, 2010
MARFORK, W.Va. – Protestors associated with Climate Ground Zero and Mountain Justice halted blasting on Coal River Mountain today with a three-person tree-sit.  David Aaron Smith, 23, Amber Nitchman, 19 and Eric Blevins, 28 are on platforms approximately 60 feet up two tulip poplar trees and one oak tree.  They are located next to where Massey Energy is blasting to build an access road to the Brushy Fork Impoundment on its Bee Tree Strip Mine.  Their banners state: “Save Coal River Mtn.,” “EPA Stop the Blasting” and “Windmills Not Toxic Spills.”
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Breaking: Mountaintop Removal Begins on Coal River Mountain -- Help Needed Now

BREAKING NEWS: Reports are coming in from residents of West Virginia's Coal River Valley that Massey Energy has begun mountaintop removal mining operations on Coal River Mountain. Sprawling across thousands of acres of diverse and pristine hardwood forests, this mountain is home to the tallest peaks ever permitted for destruction in the state of West Virginia. The mountain also became a powerful symbol of hope for a better future in the Appalachian coalfields after a study showed those peaks and ridges have wind resources as high as "Class 7," which is the highest rating on the scale.

Read more here and here

THE PERMIT AREA FOR THIS MINE IS COVERS OVER 6,000 ACRES.

All of the shaded area in this photo will be leveled and destroyed if it isn't stopped.

 

Blockade at Massey Regional Headquarters

JULIAN, W.Va.—Four concerned citizens are locked arm-to-arm across the road to Massey Energy’s regional headquarters off of Corridor-G in Boone County, W.Va. The four men, ranging in age from 22 to 81 years, are halting all traffic coming into the corporate office in an act of protest against Massey Energy and their use of mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining.

 continued..

Massey continues sleep deprivation tactics through tree-sit’s sixth day

PETTRY BOTTOM, W.Va.—Massey-hired security guards continued harassing the tree sitters with bright lights, air horns and loud bangs, all day and all night. Someone also brought out a chainsaw to the area of the tree sit. Aside from these sleep deprivation and scare tactics, the sitters are alive and well and. Still, no blasting has occurred above Pettry Bottom.
-from http://www.climategroundzero.org/
another video here

Regarding another Mountain State Disaster of slightly greater consequence - "Mountaintop removal protesters take to the trees"

This is unrelated to our house adventures but much more relevant to our lives... this happened today at the

 edge of the Edwight MTR mine down in Raleigh county.

Here's the story.
and a video.