Support Wind, Save a Mountain! « It’s Getting Hot In Here

You have the amazing opportunity to be part of a totally radical, but just plain practical new project: Getting wind farms on potential Mountaintop Removal sites. After a mountain has been blown to hell, well, it’s not so good for wind. But if we can prevent the destruction of the mountain, we can fuel our country while stopping dirty coal. This wind farm would power 150,000 homes, provide 200 construction and more than 50 permanent jobs, and prevent 6,600 acres of mountaintop removal coal mining destruction.

The only thing cooler would be to find a way to harvest the hot air put out by coal companies trying to convince us that coal is chock full of “Clean.”Go to www.coalriverwind.org to sign the petition and learn how you can help more, and then email all your friends.

I am totally inspired by this truly grassroots effort to get some economic and energy alternatives in their community — Sign the petition, volunteer, donate, join our mailing list, conserve energy in your own home and learn how you can support this landmark alternative to mountaintop removal mining at www.coalriverwind.org.

This would save Coal River Mountain for wind development, protect more than 10 miles of streams, and help to reduce global warming by preventing the release of over 80 million tons of CO2 over the next twenty years. Unfortunately, a major Appalachian coal company, Massey Energy, has already applied for 4 permits to mine this land for coal using the dirtiest and destructive form of coal mining known - Mountaintop Removal.

This is our chance to be part of a landmark decision — a decision against global warming, for clean water, for a new and healthy energy economy and against the destruction of an entire mountain. Community members are working together to inform local and state government about how wind power stands as a better option. They are meeting with local leaders, union leaders, churches, and in the near future, the state and even national government in order to ask them to support Wind Energy and deny the mountaintop removal mining permits on Coal River Mountain.

Please help us save one of West Virginia’s finest mountains.

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Dana works on the national council of the Student Environmental Action Coalition in Charleston, WV Visit www.seac.org. She likes to make papier mache stuff with five year olds. She likes mountains that haven't been blown all to hell. She likes communities that fight back when their mountains have been blown all to hell. She doesn't like coal, or blowing up mountains. She especially doesn't like (not so) Clean Coal (no such thing) and thinks Carbon Sequestration is a bad deal for communities and kids. And really, who else matters?

3 Responses to “Support Wind, Save a Mountain!”

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1 CFKS Aug 20th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

Rock it out, kids!
2 Julia Bonds Aug 21st, 2008 at 4:54 pm

Green jobs–not jails—

This is the answer–the future for our kids—solar/wind/ enrergy conservation
3 Rod Adams Aug 23rd, 2008 at 9:58 am

Not everyone shares your belief that wind turbine installations “save” mountain ridges. Some of us like the mountains the way they are, with trees, birds and bats.

http://www.windaction.org/news/13203

I am no fan of mountain top removal either - it is far easier and cheaper to use uranium instead of coal to produce heat for steam or gas turbines.