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jen63

(813 posts)
Sat Sep 13, 2014, 12:56 AM Sep 2014

Mountain top removal mining

Last edited Sat Sep 13, 2014, 03:55 PM - Edit history (1)

Published on Mar 24, 2014
Country music legend Willie Nelson is joining the fight in Congress to protect Appalachian communities from the impacts of the devastating mining practice of mountaintop removal. In a new music video that depicts mountaintop removal operations in Appalachia and their ruinous consequences, the American icon sings "America the Beautiful" to highlight opposition to giving coal companies free rein to blast the tops off mountains and dump dangerous pollution into surrounding streams and creeks. Learn more and act now at http://www.musicsavesmountains.org/
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THIS MUST STOP!!!!


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Mountain top removal mining (Original Post) jen63 Sep 2014 OP
Thanks very much! theHandpuppet Sep 2014 #1
Great post. Thanks! greatlaurel Sep 2014 #2

theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)
1. Thanks very much!
Sat Sep 13, 2014, 12:04 PM
Sep 2014

I'd also like to point folks to a website dedicated to activism against mountaintop removal mining:

The Alliance for Appalachia: a regional coalition with goals of ending mountaintop removal mining, putting a halt to destructive coal technologies, and supporting a sustainable, just economy in Appalachia.
http://theallianceforappalachia.org/

greatlaurel

(2,004 posts)
2. Great post. Thanks!
Sat Sep 13, 2014, 12:08 PM
Sep 2014

You should cross post in GD, since we get so little exposure here in Appalachia.

Great link, HP. Thanks

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