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On a wind and a prayer

Posted on August 21, 2008

By Kate Sheppard Coal River Mountain is one of the last mountains in West Virginia's Coal River Valley that hasn't been destroyed by mountaintop removal coal mining. Massey Energy is planning to mine a 10-square-mile area of the mountain, but activists in the area are hoping to intercede with a plan to instead harvest the mountain's wind potential. Massey Energy has a number of mountaintop removal (MTR) operations in place in the area around Coal Mountain, but they plan to blast this last untouched reserve. Their plans call for at least 14 valley fills to deposit the debris, which is like...

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