Clean Coal? Not.

Greetings All,

I know the big Wall street bailout is all the media is talking about right now but there is something else going on in the world, my home, the Appalachian mountains . I know you have all seen the new advertising campaign from big daddy coal on your televisions lately and I would like to take a moment to tell you what they are not mentioning in their ads about their so called "clean coal technology".

The picture you see here is the result of what is known as mountain top removal coal mining. This desolate and sterile piece of land used to be a beautiful mountain, like the one I live on right now. This location is less than a hundred miles from my home and they are littering the landscape of the Appalachian mountains more and more these days.

Many more of these beautiful mountains are on a list to be decimated in the same manner. You won't see the destruction that "clean coal" is delivering in their television commercials but you will at I Love Mountains.org.

Big daddy coal is not just destroying the earth, they are taking historical places down with her.

Blair Mountain, West Virginia is steeped in the cultural and political history of Appalachia. Historic markers tell the story of the confrontation, and on the battlefield the artifacts from both sides of the armed standoff still lie where they fell. Watch this short video and hear from one guy who is fighting big coal and could really use your help.

Yet all of that history is under threat -- as are the beautiful hardwood forests and the mountain itself -- because Big Coal has plans to blow up Blair Mountain as part of a massive mountaintop removal coal mining operation.

That's why Blair Mountain is the latest addition to the list of America's Most Endangered Mountains.

Please take a moment and lend your voice to help Kenny and all of us working to save the mountains. We have other means of generating power but these mountains will be gone forever if we don't act now to end this horrible and destructive mining methodology.

Speak Out and Help Here

Your efforts to help us spread the word are critical -- and they make a tremendous difference. In the last year alone, you've helped us:

• Reach a total of 92,000 views of the America's Most Endangered Mountains video series

• Recruit more than 600 bloggers for the iLoveMountains Bloggers Challenge, who are helping everyday to get the word out about the dirty secret behind "clean coal"

• Recruit more than 31,000 supporters at iLoveMountains.org

And what have we achieved by growing iLoveMountains.org and helping to spread the word about the devastation of mountaintop removal coal mining?

Despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent in PR and advertising by the coal industry, your actions-- and the actions of tens of thousands of other activists working across the country -- have delivered major setbacks to Big Coal's plans. In the last year, people like you have:

• Stopped a proposed Coal-to-liquid fuels plant in West Virginia

• Halted plans for the construction of over a hundred new coal power plants around the United States

• Led the way in proposing positive alternatives to mountaintop removal coal mining through the Coal River Mountain wind power project

• Helped us reach a record 150 co-sponsors in Congress for the Clean Water Protection Act, which would sharply curtail mountaintop removal coal mining

Big Coal has been dealt setback after setback by the combined actions of thousands of people like you who love our mountains. Citizen action is the only thing that will stop this. We cannot rely on a government that gives away the right to destroy our wild places to corporations to be the one who protects them.

Together, we can save Blair Mountain -- and help turn this country toward a clean and sensible energy future.

Thanks for taking just a minute and helping, y'all.
My mountain and Kenney's mountain thank you too.

Peace Y'all
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