Tuesday, March 24, 2009

I'd Rather Go Naked Than Burn MTR Coal: Abolitionist Movement Grows

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers/id-rather-go-naked-than-b_b_178152.html

It is time to abolish mountaintop removal mining, not regulate it. That is the fervent message being spread from community to community, and state to state, now that scores of ANFO explosive-packing mountaintop removal permits stand at the doors of the Army Corps of Engineers, ready to be issued after the recent 4th Circuit Court ruling.

Three million pounds of ammonium nitrate fuel oil explosives are being detonated daily in Appalachia.