http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/05/thinking-about-spills/ Place. Limits. Liberty. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:38:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/05/thinking-about-spills/#comment-47810 Rob G Sat, 22 May 2010 00:39:15 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=10911#comment-47810 That conservatives have mostly ignored that crime which is mountain-top removal mining is a scandal. In 2002 I drove to southern West Virginia with my bandmates to play in a benefit concert for a fellow named Larry Gibson, who was trying to preserve his family's ancestral mountain homestead from acquisition by the coal companies. I had heard of the problem but had no idea what I'd find when I got there --- thousands and thousands of acres that look like the freakin' moon. Absolutely appalling. That conservatives have mostly ignored that crime which is mountain-top removal mining is a scandal. In 2002 I drove to southern West Virginia with my bandmates to play in a benefit concert for a fellow named Larry Gibson, who was trying to preserve his family’s ancestral mountain homestead from acquisition by the coal companies. I had heard of the problem but had no idea what I’d find when I got there — thousands and thousands of acres that look like the freakin’ moon. Absolutely appalling.

]]> http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2010/05/thinking-about-spills/#comment-47573 Cecelia Fri, 21 May 2010 03:40:29 +0000 http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/?p=10911#comment-47573 mountain top removal for coal, coal ash in our rivers streams - we are nuts! mountain top removal for coal, coal ash in our rivers streams – we are nuts!

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