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Save Historic Blair Mountain from Devastating Mining
- Posted to iLoveMountains.org by Kate Rooth
To: President Obama, Governor Tomblin, Nancy Sutley, Ken Salazar
Blair Mountain, the most important historic landmark in Appalachia is slated for destruction from mountaintop removal coal mining and you have the ability to permanently protect it.
Coal mining behemoths Arch Coal and Alpha Natural Resources have plans to conduct mining on the Spruce Fork Ridge...
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Help spread the word about this video.Historic Blair Mountain, the site of one of the largest labor uprisings in U.S. history, in 1921, is under assault by the coal industry.
Coal companies have plans to literally blast Blair Mountain off the map through a process called mountaintop removal mining -- the most destructive form of coal mining there is.
President Obama and West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin have the power to save Blair Mountain, but the coal industry has a powerful lobby, so they have yet to do so. We need to make this a national issue. Please sign this petition and share with all your friends and family. Together we can save Blair Mountain and the rest of Appalachia from mountaintop removal, once and for all.
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Blowing up a mountaintop to extract a thin vein of coal is a wise and responsible as removing the top of one's head to extract a tooth. Can we STOP being so egregiously stupid and irresponsible?
not the best way to say things but.......i guess it does get the point across.
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Dirty deeds,,, done dirt cheap. Lobbyists have had their way with our public offocials, who are nothing but whores apparently. Nobody should have the right to pollute the earth on the massive scale described here. Nobody should even have the right to call a mountain their property to destroy. But these are the realities. We must come up with ways to fight this insanity quickly because too much has already been lost. And the momentum already established could ruin the entire planet. This is urgent!
How would you like mount Rainier to look like mount St. Helens.
good one Dave.
please save our land or we are all doomed.
No way you tree hungers .you will abort a helpless unborn child . But don't touch a Mountaintop . Something wrong with your thinking . Coal is this country's most plentiful natural resource our people are miners what are we going to do to raise our family's
coal mining is a dirty industry..for greed destroying natural land, animal habitat is a crime! like coal pollute the land and the air,, so dose greed! polluting the heart of man..
I have followed I LOVE MOUNTAINS for years - keep up the great work! Momma Nature
Did you visit http://www.facebook.com/MountainInNepal.
Both Democrats & Republicans, are Sociopathically hypocritical.. when it comes to saying, they care about such things - while demonstrating by their INACTION, they worship the "almighty dollar". Corporate / Industry Lobbyists - - have always been the TRUE power, in D.C.
I haven't gotten to see this mountian yet... I have heard of it ofcourse, and I wish to see it also, to take away what is freely given is Mother Natures true beauty. God gave us everything to use not Pepole we are to love everyone How can you love someone who wants to destroy all before you OBAMA Answer this one FOOL.
I cant find it in my friends list where do I look for this sight Jasmine Heavenly page
We need to stop distroying the planet that we live on before it is to late.