Category Archives: Press Release
Activists Disrupt Arch Coal Corporate HQ
UPDATE 4:41 pm CST: All activists have been removed after disrupting business as usual at Arch Coal for over 6 hours. We are still waiting on final confirmation of bail and charges. What a great day! UPDATE: 3:27 pm CST: One activist is still locked down. The corrected bail amount is $1,000. UPDATE 2:51 pm [...]
Release: Largest MTR mine shut down!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 28, 2012 Contact: Charles Suggs, 304-449-NVDA (6832), [email protected] Talking Points document: http://rampscampaign.org/key-messages-of-mountain-mobilization/ “Mountain Mobilization” shuts down Lincoln Co. strip mine Call for end to strip mining and a just transition for the region’s families Charleston, W.Va.—More than 50 protesters affiliated with the R.A.M.P.S. Campaign have walked onto Patriot Coal’s Hobet mine [...]
Pro-Mountain Activists Block MTR Haul Road; Board Barge; Arrests Made
Five arrested blocking coal barge shipment with $10k bail, none arrested blocking haul road EPA, DEP, USGS make surprise visit to Kayford Mountain and haul road blockade FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 24 May 2012 Contact: Robert Livingston, 304.731.1740 http://action.mountainjustice.org Twitter: @CoalIsFilthy UPDATE: Joseph, Loeb and MacDougal were charged with trespass asked to leave and obstruction, both [...]
Pro-mountain activists board coal barge and blockade Kayford strip mine haul road
Follow coverage at http://action.mountainjustice.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, May 24, 2012 Contact: Robert Livingston 304.731.1740 http://action.mountainjustice.org Note: Photos available within 1 – 2 hours. KAYFORD, W.Va. –Mountain Justice and RAMPS activists blocked coal transport in two locations Thursday morning protesting mountaintop removal. Five boarded a barge on the Kanawha River near Chelyan, with a large banner that read “Coal leaves, [...]
Activists Block Duke Coal Shipment, link Mountaintop Removal to iCloud
CHARLOTTE, NC—This morning, activists from Greenpeace, RAMPS (Radical Action for Mountain People’s Survival), Katuah Earth First!, Mountain Justice and Keepers of the Mountains Foundation blocked a coal train en route to the Marshall Steam Station, a Duke Energy coal-fired power plant, and branded the cars with the iconic Apple logo. Four activists, including leaders from [...]
Tree-sit Concludes After Thirty Days of Blocking Work on Coal River Mountain
RAMPS Campaign Vows to Continue Fighting to Save the Mountain Marfork, W.Va.–Catherine-Ann MacDougal is descending her oak tree on Coal River Mountain that she has lived in for the past month in protest of strip mining, and police have been notified. MacDougal, an activist with the RAMPS Campaign, had been in the oak tree on [...]
Tree-Sit Halting Blasting on Coal River Mountain Enters Eighth Day
Sitters Call for End of Strip Mining in Coal River Watershed Marfork, W.Va. – Catherine-Ann MacDougal and Becks Kolins, two protesters associated with the RAMPS Campaign, continue to occupy trees on the Bee Tree surface mine, where they have been stopping work on the mine site since last Wednesday. Their direct supporters, Elias Schewel and [...]
Activists Block Mining Operations on Coal River Mountain
MARFORK, W.Va. – Two protesters associated with the RAMPS Campaign halted blasting on a portion of Alpha Natural Resources’ Bee Tree mountaintop removal mine on Coal River Mountain today by ascending two trees. Catherine-Ann MacDougal, 24, and Becks Kolins, 21, are on platforms approximately 80 feet off the ground within 300 feet of active blasting [...]
Coalfield Residents Meet with CEO of Alpha Natural Resources
Abingdon, Virginia Eight residents from coal mining areas of southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia met this afternoon with Alpha Natural Resources CEO Kevin Crutchfield. These citizens had requested the meeting with Alpha because of Alpha’s pending takeover of Massey Energy, the leading producer of coal from mountaintop removal mining. Residents discussed the devastating impact [...]
Release: Coalfield Residents Deliver Letters to Alpha Energy: Cease Mountaintop Removal Operations
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Coalfield Residents Demand Alpha Energy Cease Mountaintop Removal Operations Press contact: Kim Ellis, 304-860-5041 [email protected] UPDATE: Second letter added, this one from Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards at the bottom of this page. ABINGDON, Va.—Coalfield residents and allies from West Virginia and Virginia are traveling today to the headquarters of Alpha Natural Resources [...]