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Article: In West Virginia, citizens battle mining firms carving off their mountaintops.
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- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA)
- Article date:
- February 26, 2006
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Byline: Diana Nelson Jones
Feb. 26--CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Maria Gunnoe's voice echoed beneath the West Virginia Capitol rotunda. A small woman with cascading hair, she stood almost on her toes.
"Please listen up," she said. "Our wells, our land, our homes, our culture, our very lives are being threatened. Will it take a tragedy for us to be heard?"
She was preaching to the choir. It was E-Day, Feb. 14, and Ms. Gunnoe was speaking to more than 150 people from West Virginia environmental organizations that for years have rallied, protested and sued to fight mountaintop coal removal.
The main benefit of coal mining is obvious -- ...