“Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.”
As I type this email from our office in Richmond, my computer is getting electricity from Dominion-owned “Cogentrix of Richmond power plant. I just learned that this power plant burns coal from mountaintop removal mined just across our border in West Virginia. The Potomac River power plant in Alexandria burns coal from a mountaintop removal site in Wise County, Virginia. Where does your coal come from?
But the least we can do it vow to now make it worse. Dominion’s plans to build a new coal-fired power plant in Wise County will exacerbate mountaintop removal coal mining, and its time we say no!
HELP GET THE WORD OUT
You know the usual. “Tell your family and friends, write to your legislature, sign the petition”. If you want the next step, we are asking that everyone write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper to say NO to mountaintop removal and the proposed Wise County Power Plant. We need to get the word out, to preach beyond the choir. Below are some simple talking points.
TALKING POINTS
- Flooding and water pollution caused by mountaintop removal is also destroying the quality of life and the economy of Wise County, which is now one of the poorest counties in the Commonwealth. Wise County needs real economic solutions, not more mountains destroyed.
- People can find their own
