Coal River Mountain, WV: Coal River Wind Project

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America’s Most Endangered Mountains – Coal River Mountain, WV Pledge to Help End Mountaintop Removal. Visit: www.iLoveMountains.org – - – COMMUNITY STORY – - – “We don’t live where they mine coal. They mine coal where we live…. Our concern today is our homes, our environment, and the sustainability of the environment.” Lorelei Scarbro’s house in the little community of Rock Creek, West Virginia is the same house her husband built with his own two hands when they were married, on land handed down to him from his parents. They raised their children in this house. Lorelei watches the deer in the field below, enjoys a fresh mountain stream running by the property and says that her granddaughter takes particular delight in the wild turkeys that frequent the neighborhood. Her husband, a coal miner for 35 years who died of of black lung, is buried in the family cemetery next to their home. Lorelei’s property in Rock Creek borders Coal River Mountain, one of the most beautiful mountains in the Coal River Valley of West Virginia, and one of the few untouched mountains in the region. Miles of pristine creeks and waterfalls, horseback trails and stunning vistas are often overlooked as a prime eco-tourism location. Now Coal River Mountain is slated for a mountaintop removal coal mine. If the coal company’s plans go through, nearly 10 square miles of the mountain will be destroyed, and 18 valley fills will devastate the Coal River watershed. But residents in the Coal River Valley

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Amory Lovins, Chief Scientist at the Rocky Mountain Institute, on energy efficiency

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