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Article: Union won't fight mountaintop removal -: UMW staying out of mountaintop removal debate
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- August 20, 1998
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Though some environmentalists want to team up with union miners to
fight mountaintop removal mining, the United Mine Workers plans to
watch the debate from the sidelines.
The international leadership has remained silent on the
controversial mining technique.
Local mining leader Teddy Hapney said the union will continue
listening to both sides.
Environmentalists fighting mountaintop removal, a strip mining
technique that uses explosives and skyscraper-sized shovels to remove
the rock covering coal seams, say the fight doesn't pit jobs against
the environment.
"It's an issue we should be able to work together on," said Laura
Forman, an organizer with the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition. ...