Beth Wellington on Stopping the Removal Appalachian Mountains
I am a poet and journalist living in Roanoke, Virgina. In October 2006, Bob Henry Baber, Adam Brown, Laura Treacy Bentley, Katie Fallon, Diane Gillam, Denise Giardina, Chris Green, Jeff Mann. Sam L. Martin, Irene McKinney. Rob Merritt, Delilah F. O'Haynes, Edwina Pendarvis, Kathy Pleska, John Van Kirk and I gathered in the heart of West Virginia to hear testimony and witness first hand the grievous effects of mountaintop removal.
*To read what we learned and my commentary, "Stripmining on Steroids," see http://www.llrx.com/extras/mountaintopremoval.htm
*To send a message to our writers group, email: Appalachias_Last_Stand-owner@yahoogroups.com
*To read entries on MTR at my website, see: http://360.yahoo.com/beth_blog
*To join this campaign, create your own page: http://action.earthjustice.org/stopmtr/join.html?community=t
* For even more impact, send a follow-up email, letter or fax directly to your members of Congress or telephone them. Thanks!
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The Bush administration has been trying to eliminate some of the most important environmental safeguards meant to protect waters from being buried by mountaintop removal waste.
Water protections are being repealed because the coal industry wants no environmental interference with their unlimited destruction of streams, mountains, forests, and communities. We need your help: Support the Clean Water Protection Act!
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has oversight of mountaintop removal permits. Send a letter to John Paul Woodley, Jr., Assistant Secretary for the Army, and urge him to protect the people and the mountains of Appalachia from the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining!