Join fellow mountain activists this Monday, Dec. 7, to travel to the West Virginia Dept. of Environmental Protection headquarters in Charleston, WV for a rally and protest to save Coal River Mountain.

We’ll be traveling in a van from the Appalachian Voices headquarters in Boone to join local residents from Coal River Mountain for the rally in Charleston. The van leaves Boone at 8:45am for the 2 pm rally; we will return to Boone by 10pm or so.

This rally is of urgent importance. Massey Energy is actively blasting and mining on Coal River Mountain in southern West Virginia. The blasting is taking place only a few hundred feet away from the Brushy Fork impoundment dam, which holds over 9 billion gallons of toxic coal sludge above the Coal River Valley. This blasting is happening despite studies that show Coal River Mountains has the highest and most productive potential for wind power generation in the Appalachian Mountains.

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection needs to see that Virginia residents support a clean energy future — not the dirty energy and destructive practice of mountaintop removal.

Please join us:

Where: Appalachian Voices Headquarters, 191 Howard St, Boone, NC Click here for directions.

When: Monday, December 7th, 8:45am

For more information and to RSVP, please contact Austin Hall, austin@appvoices.org, 828.262.1500.

We hope to see you there! 

Matt Wasson

iLoveMountains.org

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