Today, organizations across the nation are joining forces with iLoveMountains.org to send a powerful message to the Obama Administration that blasting on Coal River Mountain needs to stop now. More than 500,000 people across the country are being asked to contact the 4 decision-makers in the Obama Administration that can put a stop to the blasting on Coal River Mountain. This could be the largest day of action on mountaintop removal ever, and we need your help to make history.
Will you take a moment to send a message to these decision-makers today?
http://www.iLoveMountains.org/CoalRiver
Last week, we told you about how residents in southern West Virginia have been promoting a plan that would save the last remaining mountain in the Coal River Valley from mountaintop removal coal mining - through wind power. Your response to our appeal to contact the President was incredible. Reports came back from the White House of a deluge of calls, and in less than a week more than 1,500 new people joined the movement to end mountaintop removal coal mining.
But local reports of blasting on the mountain have continued to come in, and we need to redouble our efforts. Blasting is occuring directly next to the Brushy Fork slurry impoundment, a dam which holds 8.2 billion gallons of toxic coal slurry. Every day that blasting continues, more than 1,000 people are in danger of being overtaken by a 50-foot high wall of coal sludge should the dam fail.
The fate of Coal River Mountain is still uncertain, but its implications for our energy future are clear. Will we continue down the path of destroying our nation's oldest mountains for a few years worth of coal, or seize the opportunity to produce clean wind power for 85,000 homes and generate green jobs and a new energy economy?
Help make history today- and help save Coal River Mountain for the future. Ask the Environmental Protection Agency, Army Corps of Engineers, Department of the Interior and the Council of Environmental Quality to stop the blasting on Coal River Mountain.
Thanks for all that you do,
Matt Wasson
iLoveMountains.org
