Posts Tagged with "Boone County"

West Virginia Court Violates 8th Amendment Rights

Monday, May 24, 2010

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The injustice coming out of Appalachia these days is deafening. And disturbing. In fact, it’s bat shit crazy. On May 17, two Climate Ground Zero activists, EmmaKate Martin, 18, and Ben Bryant, 23, stopped traffic into Massey’s West Virginia headquarters with a lockdown device known as a tripod. The cops showed up got them out [...]

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NASA Photos Reveal True Impact of Mountaintop Removal Mining

Saturday, March 13, 2010

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Satellite photos recently released by NASA illustrate the real impacts of mountaintop removal (MTR) mining in Appalachia. They were taken between 1984 and 2009 at the Hobet mine site in Boone County, West Virginia. You can see through the time lapse the scale of the deforestation that has taken place, followed by the leveling of [...]

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