One year ago President Obama was elected and my hopes for a clean energy future soared. However, just two weeks ago, that hope began to be blown away in West Virginia when Massey Energy began dynamiting Coal River Mountain—the site of a proposed 328-megawatt wind farm—to prepare for a massive mountaintop removal coal mining operation.
But today, organizations from across the country are coming together to demand that President Obama’s Administration be a leader for both clean energy and communities and stop the blasting on Coal River Mountain. In fact, it’s the biggest online action to stop mountain top removal coal mining in history.
Can you take a moment right now to tell the Obama Administration to not blast away our clean energy future?
Here’s what’s at stake:
-The homes, healthy air, streams and ecosystems of the local residents of Coal River Mountain.
-A Coal River Mountain wind farm that would provide 85,000 households with electricity, 700 long-term green jobs, give back $1.7 million in annual county taxes and stand as a model for clean energy across the region.
-The health of the climate as when burning the coal pumps tons upon tons of carbon into the atmosphere of an already dangerously warming planet.
The EPA has the power to either protect the climate and the communities of Coal River Mountain, or it can allow the creation of a 6,000-acre dirty energy wasteland.
You can make a difference today by taking one minute right now to tell the Obama Administration to support clean energy and save Coal River Mountain.
With your help, we can make the clean energy revolution a reality. As my colleague from Rainforest Action Network, Scott Parkin, says
“Coal River Mountain must become our line in the sand. We can no longer allow fossil fuel interests to build more pipelines, belch out more pollution, and destroy more mountains that could become clean energy wind farms. If we can stop the blasting on Coal River Mountain we can stop talking about a clean energy future and start living in a clean energy present.”
