Abolishing mountaintop removal Coal mining NOW before it's to late. Bringing social justice to the mountain communities that have given all to our country. There is 4 million pounds of explosives a day used in West Virginia alone to blast apart our mountains to get to the coal seams. The mountains are being blasted into rubble and pushed over into adjacent valleys to create valley fills. This destroys our streams and poisons our water table. There are many Sludge dams in our mountains this is where the coal companies store the coal waste water. This is full of heavy metals and chemicals and there is lakes of it being stored behind earthen dams throughout Appalachia. These sludge dams have been known to break. We work to bring emergency evacuation plans into the communities that are affected by these sludge dams. Warning systems have been put into place in Mingo County due to the diligent work of local OVEC volunteers. Boone Co is now working on putting into place the code red system which is operated by satelite. We fight the destruction of our way of life. Simple down home living in the mountains of southern WV is what all want. Maybe a show of respect for our God given human rights. Renewable resources of energy is the only way that our children will have a planet to live on. Coal Kills! It's not clean or green no matter what you do to it, YOU CAN NOT MAKE COAL CLEAN!
Like minded folks who want to help us stop the attack on our Appalachian Mountains and culture.If you Ever loved a mountain you should see what they are doing to the Appalachians!Oh yeah I'd also like to meet Al Gore and Hillary Clinton. Maybe they can help us stop this MADNESS.
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