Treesit Halts Blasting On Coal River Mountain

Protestors associated with Climate Ground Zero and Mountain Justice halted blasting on Coal River Mountain today with a three-person tree-sit. David Aaron Smith, 23, Amber Nitchman, 19 and Eric Blevins, 28 are on platforms approximately 60 feet up two tulip poplar trees and one oak tree. They are located next to where Massey Energy is blasting to build an access road to the Brushy Fork Impoundment on its Bee Tree Strip Mine. Their banners state: Save Coal River Mtn., EPA Stop the Blasting and Windmills Not Toxic Spills. http://climategroundzero.net/2010/01/treesit/

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• cgz
• mountaintop removal
• MTR
• coal
• Blankenship
• Climate Ground Zero
• climate change
• Massey
• Mountain Justice
• Coal River Mountain
• RFK JR
• EPA
• WVDEP
• Lisa Jackson
• West Virginia
• non-violent direct action
• treesit
• Brushy Fork Impoundment

[xylemtg]

You folks rock -- thank you for the profoundly important work you are doing. I am doing what I can to support it....

[Snicki1946]

I'm so proud of these kids.

[SereneiBE]

coal sludge is extremely toxic.

[amandaking77]

they are stupid and liars who will go to hell stopping a working man from doing his job they are not peaceful have been throiwng rokas at us coal truck drivers thank god judy bond is dead

[toynazi]

those kids are not even from west virginia. wtf?

[toynazi]

if they are so serious about the mountains. then buy a bunch of candles. move out of the house you live in. and make the mountain a home! good luck to you.

[cannibol]

climate ground zero saved me from depression as they are willing to go to jail to stop mountain top removal. our river, the mud river, in lincoln co. has been destroyed by the hobet mine in boone co. appalachia's largest mountain top removal wasteland. it is running with selenium and toxic metals and the fish are turning up deformed and mutated.

thanks rock creekers!

[willgudmundsson]

There's a special place in hell for Don Blankenship and his thugs at Massey.

[gholstein80]

Like the old man the last mountain. God more lies millions of pounds of explosives. Climate Change Good god go to other states you need to figure out where you belong. Climate change will never cease because the folks like you. The problem is that this is never gonna change climate change. The girl from Chicago lol go there this city is bred from pollution. That is right they know everything. Pollution smog greenhouse gas from cars alone destroy more life then strip mining has ever done.

[01psd]

no problem

[warth7]

@01psd okay sorry about that man

[01psd]

@warth7 I'm not a tree sitter, I'm pro coal