CHARLESTON — Several groups say they will expand their protest against an Massey Energy mine in southern West Virginia through e-mail.
The groups, which include The Sierra Club, Alliance for Appalachia and Greenpeace, say they will send more than 500,000 e-mails to individuals Thursday and Friday to press their campaign to halt Massey’s mining operation on Coal River Mountain.
The groups say the mountain should be preserved as a wind farm and not mined for its coal reserves.
They want President Barack Obama and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to step in and stop the mining.
Gov. Joe Manchin has said he won’t interfere because Massey has valid state permits to mine the mountain.
State News
November 5, 2009
Groups plan e-mail campaign to protest mine
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