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Coal River Mountain Watch

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The mission of Coal River Mountain Watch is to stop the destruction of our communities and environment by mountaintop removal mining, to improve the quality of life in our area and to help rebuild sustainable communities. MySpace Layouts by Grabalayout.com

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My Interests

renewable energy, net metering, wind farms, solar energy, geo-thermal energy, stopping mountain top removal, clean elections, green energy, sustainability, community,

I'd like to meet:

activists, people in support of stopping mountain top removal and other environmental injusticesMOUNTAINJUSTICESUMMER.ORG [email protected]
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Music:

Danny Dolinger, bluegrass, T. Paige,

Movies:

Sludge, Mucked, Buffalo Creek, The Appalachians, Kilowatt Hours, A Piece of Heaven (coming soon),Black DiamondsRise Up! West VirginiaMountaintop RemovalBurning The Future: Coal in America

Television:

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Books:

To Save the Land and People, Night Comes to the Cumberlands,

Heroes:

Mother Jones, Granny D, Laura Foreman, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr.,those willing to stand up for the rights of others.

My Blog

The Crime of Mountaintop Removal Mining

With the West Virginia primary tomorrow, and Kentucky next week, coal and coal mining become more visible as issues. I wrote about this in April at Quick Political Note  Coal and the Candidates. The...
Posted by Coal River Mountain Watch on Tue, 13 May 2008 10:02:00 PST

Strip mine jobs are temporary, destructive (LTE-RH)

http://www.register-herald.com/letters/local_story_130211409 .html?keyword=topstoryMr. Hudson's letter published in this paper on March 16 was pure old rotten bologna.As a disabled underground miner,...
Posted by Coal River Mountain Watch on Sat, 10 May 2008 10:30:00 PST

Coal is finite; sun, wind infinite

http://www.wvgazette.com/Opinion/Letters/200805070289 Editor: A recent article said "world coal market hits home" and the price of coal-fired electricity is rapidly rising and becoming very ex...
Posted by Coal River Mountain Watch on Fri, 09 May 2008 08:24:00 PST

Coal reps, protesters clash at conference

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08128/879633-113.stmWednesday , May 07, 2008 By Don Hopey, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteAshley Lauth, 23, of Washington, D.C., and a member of Greenpeace, encourages a motoris...
Posted by Coal River Mountain Watch on Wed, 07 May 2008 11:47:00 PST

Rahall and Manchin ignore public’s will

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/opinions/x1805090259   I want to admit a mistake I made for voting for Nick J. Rahall for U.S. House of Representatives. I didn't know he had obsession for ...
Posted by Coal River Mountain Watch on Tue, 06 May 2008 08:52:00 PST

Greenpeace report labels carbon capture ’false hope’

May 5, 2008 http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200805040220   Coal operators and their supporters are offering the public false hope when they promote pumping carbon dioxide underground to solve t...
Posted by Coal River Mountain Watch on Mon, 05 May 2008 01:29:00 PST

On TV: Burning the Future: Coal in America

On TV Burning the Future: Coal in America Sundance Channel, May 13, 9:35 p.m. (ET/PT); May 16, 10:35 p.m. (ET/PT); May 18, 3:35 p.m. (ET/PT) DVD available mid-May at www.burningthefuture.org. By 19...
Posted by Coal River Mountain Watch on Mon, 05 May 2008 01:21:00 PST

New DEP Secretary Expects To Make The Tough Decisions

New West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Randy Huffman is the first one to admit he doesn't have all the answers, but he says he'll work to get them. Huffman took over as th...
Posted by Coal River Mountain Watch on Mon, 05 May 2008 01:15:00 PST

LTE: A big THANKS to the WV Young Democrats...

Group thanked for courage http://www.wvgazette.com/Opinion/Letters/200805040225?page=2 &build=cache Editor: A big thanks to the West Virginia Young Democrats for having the courage to b...
Posted by Coal River Mountain Watch on Mon, 05 May 2008 01:07:00 PST

Gibson Foundation Sponsors Natural Resources Defense Council’s Eco Salon

http://www.modernguitars.com/archives/004379.htmlPress release Source: Gibson Guitar(L to R) John Adams, Founder NRDC; Frances Beinecke, President, NRDC; Dave Berryman, President Gibson Guitar Corp.; ...
Posted by Coal River Mountain Watch on Mon, 05 May 2008 12:44:00 PST