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Thousands rally to support coal
Posted on October 14, 2009
It got ugly in West Virginia and Pikeville last night, with coal supporters shouting down opponents of mountaintop removal mining at Army Corps of Engineers hearings:... hundreds of coal supporters repeatedly jeered and shouted down mountaintop-removal opponents, drowning out most of the speakers who showed up to support the plan. Corps District Engineer Col. Robert Peterson, dressed in camouflage alongside agency staffers in business attire, gently waved his hands and politely asked coal supporters to behave themselves. But Peterson refused several requests that the corps ask local police or ...
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