DN! Tree-Sitting Activists Shut Down West Virginia Coal Mine

Tree-Sitting Activists Shut Down West Virginia Coal Mine

In West Virginia, three environmental activists have shut down a mountaintop removal site run by the mining giant Massey Coal. The three activists are perched atop platforms on trees at the Bee Tree Strip Mine on Coal River Mountain. On Thursday, Democracy Now! reached protester Eric Blevins. Eric Blevins: Right now I am sitting on a platform that is hanging in a tree, attached to the tree, probably about sixty or seventy feet in the air. Im not sure exactly. Fifty yards away or so, theres a bunch of holes where Massey Energy has been drilling to put explosives so they can blow up Coal River Mountain, the last mountain in the Coal River Valley area of West Virginia that has not been destroyed by mountaintop removal. And they actually just started blasting on the mountain within the past year.

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[Mudwiggler]

You need to warm your ass in the winter, so they got to dig up the coal,chain saw would soon bring you pricks down,QUICK as.

[wvufanngarner]

Fucking morons. It's gonna happen, get used to it.

Chances are the power running your computer now is coal generated.

Look at the land that has been mined and reclaimed. It may not be exactly like it was but there are roads to use. The land is usable for development. Tree huggers need to get over it.

[MrDocmurdock]

mine coal i like a nice warm home in the winter and cool in the summer .....thank you hard working coal miners for my power ......

[rayofminneapolis]

YES!! SHUT IT DOWN FOREVER. It's to bad more people had to die, in the recent explosion.

SHUT DOWN MASSEY.