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Virginia Mountain Justice
Friends,
On Jan 28th folks from Harrisonburg, Charlottesville, Norfolk, Nelson County, Louisa and Ferum attended a meeting to form an organizing group for Virginia to join with the ongoing Mountain Justice campaign. Those of us in Hampton Roads can help organize in our area and take part in this struggle to stop the destruction of the mountains and the people who live and work on them.
www.mountainjusticesummer.org |
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The Unite-Resist-Reclaim Collective will have a table set up on MTR at some of the events during GaiaFest.
We will also be having a workshop on the issues that link this destruction to our local area, capitalism, and industrialization. This is still in the works and should be finished by SWAMPFEST. |
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What is mountain top removal- link to the steps of MTR from Mountainjusticesummer.org |
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the " overburden" is dumped into the valleys, leveling the landscaped |
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Lockdown at the entrance of the Zeb Mountain site TN Aug 2003 |
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The coal is washed and treated before it is loaded on trains. The excess water left over from this process is called coal slurry or sludge and is stored in open ponds, or coal impoundments, like this one. Coal sludge is a mix of water, coal dust, clay and toxic chemicals such as arsenic mercury, lead, copper, and chromium. Coal impoundments are held in place by mining debris, making them very unstable. In 2000, a coal impoundment broke and spilled 250 million gallons of sludge that is more than 20 times the amount of oil lost by the Exxon Valdez |
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