FLASHPOINTS - EARTH MATTERS - Mountain Top Removal

by Amanda Bellerby (mndbliss [at] yahoo.com)

Mon, Oct 16, 2006 11:36PM

Interview with Erik Reese, author of "Lost Mountain - A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness" about the radical form of strip mining coal known as Mountain Top Removal. Erik spent a year on the doomed Lost Mountain, documenting what he saw, watching it get torn apart, watching the people lose their land, lives, health, and spirit. MP3, 14:21. Includes song, "Company Town" artist unknown. (please email me if you know!)

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§Company Town, stop mountaintop removal photos, websites

by Vivian Stockman (vivian [at] ohvec.org)

Wed, Oct 18, 2006 4:36AM

"Company Town" is by Andrew McKnight, and featured on Moving Mountains, a CD which benefits some groups and individuals working to end mountaintop removal.
http://www.fallingmountain.com/mtr.html.

If people want to see pictures of mountaintop removal, see
http://www.ohvec.org/galleries/mountaintop_removal/index.html

Also see
http://www.ilovemountains.org, http://www.stopmountaintopremoval.org.

Links at http://www.ohvec.org include many groups working to end MTR. In Kentucky, where Reese is from, it's Kentuckians for the Comonwealth.

--Vivian

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