Category Archives: Mountaintop Removal

Morning Awful: Coal Country

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Coal Country”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailI keep saying that West Virginia is in deep capture to the kind of disaster capitalism we normally associate with places like Nigeria. Last week, activists and citizens opposed to mountaintop removal mining attempted … Continue reading →

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Share the ACHE: Stop Mountaintop Removal

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Share the ACHE: Stop Mountaintop Removal”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailForget saving mountains. Forget “Mother Earth.” Ultimately, environmentalism is about saving the humans from the consequences of commercial resource exploitation and extraction economics. This new video from ACHEact.org puts the focus squarely … Continue reading →

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The Last Mountain for Best Documentary

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “The Last Mountain for Best Documentary”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailEveryone who’s seen it agrees: this is not just a great documentary about mountaintop removal mining, it’s an unexpectedly entertaining and uplifting film about Americans living in Third World corporate disaster-capitalism hell. … Continue reading →

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Forget Truth, We Want Controversy

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Forget Truth, We Want Controversy”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailOne of my friends in the community of mountaintop removal activism found a hole in his gas tank this weekend. Someone had taken a drill to the plastic, leaving a large puddle of … Continue reading →

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Kentucky Agency Lets Big Coal Poison Kentuckians

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Kentucky Agency Lets Big Coal Poison Kentuckians”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailFor years now, Appalachian Voices has been calling foul on the monthly water contamination reports from below mountaintop removal sites, claiming that industry reports were insufficient. This year, the EPA required … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Mountaintop Removal

Posted on June 14, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Mountaintop Removal”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailMountaintop removal mining threatens children. The kids of Marsh Fork Elementary will drown in toxic coal slurry if the dirt dam above them gives way — but there’s plenty of blasting going on. Coal … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Mountaintop Removal

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Mountaintop Removal”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailMountaintop removal mining destroys communities. A toxic moonscape is not a good place to find a job, build a house, or start a business. Flooding from valley and stream fills can wipe out whole … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Mountaintop Removal

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Mountaintop Removal”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailMountaintop removal destroys property. Maria Gunnoe tells about her near-death experience after bad drainage at a mountaintop removal site flooded her land. She was lucky: she survived, and earned a Goldman Prize with which … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Mountaintop Removal

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Mountaintop Removal”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailMountaintop removal mining erases history. There’s a march this week in West Virginia to commemorate the events at Blair Mountain. Unfortunately, that event also embodies another problem in the liberal coalition: the split between … Continue reading →

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Activists to EPA: “We’ve Got Your Back”

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Activists to EPA: “We’ve Got Your Back””FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailToday I’m in Washington, DC embedded with a group of human rights activists determined to save their homes from the predators of Big Coal. Live coverage below at 10:30 EDT; I’ll … Continue reading →

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Morning Awful: Mountaintop Removal

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Matt Osborne

Share the post “Morning Awful: Mountaintop Removal”FacebookTwitterGoogle+PinterestLinkedInDiggStumbleUponE-mailYesterday I said that mountaintop removal mining was a crime against the future. This is what I meant: mountains are renewable resources of wind energy. Spread over a region, windmills can make a powerhouse … Continue reading →

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