Here is a slideshow and article <http://www.alternet.org/story/70475/> about the practice of mountaintop coal extraction in the Blue Ridge mountains of West Virginia. Tucked away from our experience, but so close to us still, these pictures speak volumes.
A friend of mine works (pushing coal) at the Milliken Station power plant on Cayuga Lake and says that we consume 1 train car an hour 24 hours a day every day of the year - I'm not sure, but I'd guess that that coal comes from West Virginia. When people say they don't want to see windmills on the horizon or hydro disturbing our waterways in Tompkins County, I think of the West Virgina mountains with their tops blown off and wonder about the consequences of perpetuating the out-of-sight out-of-mind status quo of energy production. -- Katie Q-J -- _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
