Please stand with me and thousands of others today to stop destruction of Ison Rock Ridge in southwestern Virginia. If a mountaintop removing mining permit is approved there, the mountain communities of Inman, Andover, Derby, and Callahan Avenue and Ridge Street in the town of Appalachia would be at risk for more damage to the health of people and nature.
The permit area is huge: over 1200 acres of this awesome mountain ecosystem would be deforested and blown apart, disrupting the natural processes that must be kept intact to support human beings and other species who know this place as home.
Google Earth image of the permit area. See this image and more information at Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards website.
I Love Mountains has a page that will help you ask President Obama, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, Nancy Sutley of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and EPA Regional Administrator Shawn Garvin to deny the permit. If another mine is permitted here, it will only compound the destruction by mountaintop removal coal mining that Wise County's land, air, water, wildlife and people have already suffered.
Here's a great video that will let you hear from folks in Wise County, in their own words:
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