Save Appalachia! Stop Mountain Range Removal!

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Hey thanks for letting me join the group. Just wanted to pass this

information on for all interested. You may want to check out

www.crmw.net for more info on Mountain top/range removal, and make

sure you catch the info and links at the bottom of the post about

Mountain Justice Summer.

Thanks,

Moon(*

 

 

 

Please forward far and wide:

 

Down with King Coal! Save Appalachia - Stop Mountain Range

Removal!

 

Take Action on February 10th!

 

There is an institution near you complicit in mountain range

removal coal mining. A coal company, an electric utility, a

government office, a bank, a lobbying firm.

 

This is a call for a simultaneous day of action against

mountain range removal across Appalachia, the US and the

world. Be as loud as you can in protest of watershed

destruction!

 

Protest! Demonstrate! Make some phone calls! Send some

email!

Turn off the lights! Take direct action!

 

Our demand is simple – stop mountain range removal and all

forms of destructive strip mining for coal.

 

The Appalachian Mountains are among the oldest mountains in

the world. They contain the most biologically diverse

temperate forest and freshwater aquatic ecosystems on the

planet. Two hundred million years of wind, water, and ice

have eroded the Appalachian mountains to about half of their

original height. Massey Energy Co., Arch Coal, National Coal

and other corporations have decided that that was much too

long and are trying to get the other half in only a few

decades. Greedy multinational corporations, with support

from corrupt government agencies, are perpetuating the

greatest ecological crime in history: the destruction of

water producing mountain ranges.

 

Groups and individuals across Appalachia are rising in

united protest against the increasing cultural and

environmental devastation caused by this most destructive

form of mining. Mountain range removal results in loss of

life, loss of employment, destruction of homes, and

elimination of communities throughout the coalfields.

 

In West Virginia alone, three million pounds of explosives

are detonated every day, over 600 square miles of mountains

have been reduced to barren wasteland, and more than 40,000

mining jobs have been eliminated. Valley fills have buried

over 1,200 miles of Appalachian streams forever. Billions of

gallons of chemical-laden sludge, restrained only by leaky,

failure-prone earthen dams, loom above our communities and

schools. Mountain range removal has expanded beyond West

Virginia and Kentucky and is a growing problem in Virginia

and Tennessee. Meanwhile, dirty politicians grant the coal

industry its every desire. Such a condition can no longer

be endured and will no longer be tolerated. It used to be

called mountain top removal but so many mountains have been

destroyed that it is now referred to as mountain RANGE

removal. It is a war against the earth.

 

Massey Coal Corporation is an evil mountain leveling

corporation and we need your help confronting this company

and King Coal in general. Massey busts unions, destroys

mountains and buys politicians. They are wrecking southern

West Virginia and eastern Kentucky. They are owned by the

billion dollar Fleur Corporation. Massey deserves your

attention on February 10th.

 

Here's what you can do:

 

If you're good at picketing-picket. If you're good at

guerilla theatre, do it. If you can chalk, call, email or

take direct action - whatever you do best – do it. Call

your representatives (ick!), go to a nearby area doing an

action, see who is evil in your town, protest in front of

your federal building, issue press releases, protest your

utility company and demand they not buy coal from companies

involved with mountain range removal, protest your

university if they are using coal, picket Peabody, Massey,

National Coal, and lots more. Contact us if you're in a

major city and need some suggested locations - there are

plenty. See the contact list below for websites, addresses

and other info. You can use the companies' websites to

find out who they are, where their directors are from, where

their offices and mines are, etc… A google search on many

of these companies will also turn up whotheir investors are.

 

Do whatever you do best, but do it on Feb 10th. Our theme is

" as Massey as you wanna be " to express solidarity with

our friends in West Virginia. Don't be limited though,

there are many different tentacles to the mountain devouring

corporate robber barons, so pick your target and give `em

some grief.

 

For the Mountains!

 

Appalachian Mountain Preservation Council

Ministry of Propaganda

 

Please let us know about your action. If you need more info,

please email:

annebonnylives

johnjef

bamsterman

edge37343

 

Good websites with lots of mountain top removal info:

www.ohvec.org, www.appvoices.org

 

Coal Contacts:

 

Feel free to contact the following and express your

disapproval of mountain range removal and all other forms of

destructive surface mining.

 

Massey Energy (destroyer of mountains, waterways and

communities in WV and KY, also viciously anti-union)

Massey Energy Company - 4 North 4th Street, Richmond,

Virginia 23219

Phone: 888-424-2417, 804-788-1824

http://www.masseyenergyco.com

Massey.Hotline

Some of Massey's top managers:

katherine.kenny,

john.parker,

michael.allen,

steve.sears,

gary.smith,

gary.temple,

tom.kielty,

thomas.dougherty

 

A & G Coal Corporation (This is the VA company that killed a

little boy last fall with a runaway boulder)

Phone (276) 328-3421

 

National Coal Corporation (leading the charge for

destruction in TN)

National Coal - 8915 George Williams Rd. Knoxville, TN 37923

Phones: 865-769-3749, 865-690-6900, 866-703-COAL (toll Free)

Fax: 865-691-9982

Email: info,

investorrelations, sales,

jdavis

 

Crestview Capital Funds (an institutional investor in NCC)

95 Revere Drive, Suite A, Northbrook, Illinois, 60062 Phone:

847-559-0060 Fax: 847-559-5807

http://www.crestviewcap.com Email: lisa

 

Cunningham & Company (a public relations firm working for

NCC)

730 W. Randolph St., 6th Floor Chicago, Illinois, 60661

Phone: 312-876-1070 Fax: 312-454-0261

http://www.cunninghamcomp.com, Email:

info

 

West Virginia Coal Association (lobbying group) P.O. Box

3923, Charleston, WV 25339

http://www.wvcoal.com Phone: 304-342-4153 Fax: 304-342-7651

Staff of the WV Coal Ass:

President - Bill Raney - braney, Senior VP -

Chris Hamilton - chamilton

VP - Dan Miller - dmiller, Regulatory Affairs -

Jason Bostic - jbostic

Administrative Assistant - Sandi Davison -

sdavison

 

Friends of Coal (another industry front group)

P.O. Box 3923 Charleston, WV 25339 1-866-982-2625

http://www.friendsofcoal.org

 

 

Just in case you hadn't already heard – folks are

organizing for Mountain Justice Summer 2005. This will be a

coordinated effort to bring attention to the destruction

caused by mountain range removal and to confront the

corporate and government entities involved.

 

Please visit www.mountainjusticesummer.org for more info.

 

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