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Article: Mountaintop removal fight expands to courts
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- October 1, 2009
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MORGANTOWN - The fight over mountaintop removal mining in
Southern West Virginia's coalfields has expanded to a second front -
the courtroom.
Virginia-based Massey Energy has filed three lawsuits so far this
year against environmental activists who have staged more than a
dozen acts of civil disobedience to pressure the nation's fourth-
largest coal company to abandon the destructive form of strip
mining.
Massey did not immediately comment on its cases Wednesday, but
court filings suggest the protesters are having a measurable, if
minor, impact on the bottom line: In one lawsuit, Massey claims a
single action - the 31/2-hour occupation of a dragline at Progress
Coal's Twilight mine June 18 - ...
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