It’s been awhile since I’ve had time or anything to write about here. However I also am an author at the Stop Mountaintop Removal blog and I wrote a post about wind power.
Visit One Alternative to Mountaintop Removal - Wind to read more on the subject.
Pennsylvania is doing quite good with funding renewable, green [...]
Denny over at The Backwoods Drifter has another report on the damage being done by Massey Energy and the likes in West Virginia.
… brought to you by the coal industry.
The more I talked with people in Drews Creek the more it became obvious they didn’t have a clue about the new mountaintop removal site. [...]
I received an email today from David Masur over at Penn Environment asking me to write my state senator to support House Bill 1281, the Pennsylvania Appalachian Trail Act. It seems that the trail in our state is being threatened by expanding development. According to Penn Environment :
One of Pennsylvania’s [...]
After seeing the pictures Denny posted on his Stop Mountaintop Removal blog about acid mine drainage, I decided to take some similar pictures from my area. The effects from mining coal last for decades and possibly 100 or more years. These pictures are of runoff from the Sagamore Mines in Armstrong County, PA. [...]
I’ll start this post with 2 of my nicest pictures. To me, these 2 pictures define what I thought the “country life” was all about when I still lived in the city. The views around here never fail to amaze me! Sometimes I wonder how I ever lived in the city [...]
While the effects of mountaintop don’t directly affect us in this region, some of the environmental effects are the same. In our area, our drinking water supply is contaminated from another byproduct of Coal.
In this area, CCW(coal combustion waste), the leftover ash produced from burning coal is being disposed of by placing it [...]
Denny at The Back Woods Drifter is blogging about the fight to end mountaintop removal and the long term effects it causes. He just started up Stop Mountaintop Removal, to focus on that fight.
It seems the negative effects of our dependence on coal to supply the growing demand for electricity are getting worse. [...]
