BECKLEY —
State Police arrested four members of Climate Ground Zero Wednesday as they continued their ongoing protest against mountaintop mining.
Sgt. D.W. Bennett said State Police received a complaint from Marfork Coal Co. in western Raleigh County, saying that protesters had chained themselves to a highwall miner on the property. The mine is a subsidiary of Massey Energy.
When Trooper 1st Class J.L. Mitchell responded to the complaint he observed two people, Kathryn Huszcza and Colin Flood, chained to the miner and two others, Sophie Kern and James Tobias, standing in support, Bennett said.
Mitchell ordered the two protesters to free themselves; they refused.
Bennett said Mitchell then arrested Kern and Tobias and transported them to the Whitesville detachment and then to Southern Regional Jail.
Huszcza and Flood were separated from the miner and transported to the Whitesville detachment by Massey security, according to Bennett.
He said all four were charged with trespassing, obstructing, conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor and littering.
All four remained in SRJ Thursday afternoon, Flood and Huszcza on $2,500 bond each and Kern and Tobias on $3,500 each, according to jail records.
According to Climate Ground Zero, the four engaged in Wednesday’s protest to bring attention to the many local resources that will be lost if blasting on Coal River Mountain continues.
— Dawn A. Dayton
Local News
July 16, 2010
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