[SustainableTompkins] Slideshow from W. Virginia

[Katie Quinn-Jacobs]

Here is a slideshow and article <http://www.alternet.org/story/70475/> 
about the practice of mountaintop coal extraction in the Blue Ridge 
mountains of West Virginia.  Tucked away from our experience, but so 
close to us still, these pictures speak volumes.

A friend of mine works (pushing coal) at the Milliken Station power 
plant on Cayuga Lake and says that we consume 1 train car an hour 24 
hours a day every day of the year - I'm not sure, but I'd guess that 
that coal comes from West Virginia.

When people say they don't want to see windmills on the horizon or hydro 
disturbing our waterways in Tompkins County, I think of the West Virgina 
mountains with their tops blown off and wonder about the consequences of 
perpetuating the out-of-sight out-of-mind status quo of energy production.

-- Katie Q-J



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