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Coal River Valley Residents Rally to Save Their Last Mountain

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Tuesday, February 3, 2009   

Pettus, WV – It's the last mountain -- so don't blow it up. That's the rallying cry today (Tuesday) to try to stop Massey Energy's plan for removing Coal River Mountain to get to the coal.

Coal River Valley residents will gather today (Tuesday) at the Marfork Coal Company gate in Pettus, in an attempt to save their last mountain. Bo Webb is one of several local residents who plan to deliver a letter to Massey, demanding that it halt operations.

"In the Coal River Valley, we have one mountain left, and that's Coal River Mountain. They've destroyed all our other mountains, and we're trying to hold on to this last one."

According to Webb, the group also will ask the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection to suspend the mining permit because of concerns about a 9-billion-gallon coal waste sludge dam nearby. They've filed a petition because, if the sludge breaks through, thousands of people could be killed downstream.

Webb says they want to see a windfarm atop the mountain instead, and that members of his family have testified before the state multiple times about how mountaintop removal methods affect them.

"Their operations are causing us a lot of grief, a lot of health problems. We have children here, we have generations that have lived here, and we're going to protect it."

Massey Energy has said all safety precautions are in place, and that procedures have been followed to secure the permits to start removing the mountain. Leveled mountains are also promoted as new sites for development once the mining is done.



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