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Please keep up the pressure about Mountaintop Removal / Valley Fills!
April 1 Protest and Stop Mountaintop Removal Meeting
Valley Fill Call-in Day Summary and NEW Call-In Day!
April 1 Protest: Check out the ads about our protest running today, Thursday and Sunday in the Charleston Gazette and the Huntington Herald Dispatch.
As you know, the protest is Monday, April 1. We assemble at 11:30 a.m. Take I-64 to the Hal Greer Blvd. Head off the exit ramp towards downtown Huntington, towards Marshall University. Keep going straight until you come to 3rd Avenue. When you get to 3rd Avenue, it is a one-way street going west. Get in the left turn lane. (Calamity Cafe is on your left and Smith Hall is on your right). Turn left. Stay in the left lane. Go 8 city blocks to 8th Street. The Civic Center is on the Northwest corner; the Bazaar is on your left. Turn left at 8th Street. There's a parking garage on your right where we recommend that you park. Wait for us on the corner of 8th St. and 3rd Ave. We'll all walk to the Corps together. The Corps is just 2 blocks south on the corner of 8th Street and 5th Avenue.
More info here.
Post-Protest Meeting: Please come to the post-protest meeting. Lunch is provided by OVEC. We'll discuss the stop Mountaintop Removal Campaign. The meeting begins about 1 p.m. at the Cabell County Library, 459 9th St., Huntington, Rooms 1 & 2, on the 3rd floor.
Protest Sign Ideas: What's a protest without signs? Please take some time over the weekend to pen a sign. Some suggestions:
- Stop Valley Fills!
- Corps: Stop burying our future!
- We can't drink $…Save our Water!
- Corps: Stop fooling with our Future!
- Corps: Keep your "minimal impact" out of our streams!
- No life without water!
- Only fools bury streams!
- Nature: Our finest engineer
- Don't legalize illegal valley fills!
- Corp: Leaving CORPSes where once was life!
Valley Fill Call-In Day Summary: Wow! What a wild day March 20, national call-in day on valley fills, was! We called to protest a proposed Bush Administration rule change that would legalize illegal valley fills and could also have grave implications for waterways nationwide. Our calls jammed the phone lines at the Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on Environmental Quality. We don't know for sure how many calls came in, but the guess is thousands! The message definitely got through -- the public opposes this rule change. BIG THANKS to all who called! Many of you got the run around, getting transferred from person to person. Others only got an answering machine or a busy signal. Some of you got calls back from an EPA "technical" person saying this rule change really wouldn't make any difference. That is pure bunk! So…state and national groups have decided we need to revisit the EPA with more calls. We ask your help again on this!
New Call-In Day: We're baaaaack. Please mark your calendars for a follow-up call-in day to the EPA for April 3. We want EPA to know that citizens aren't fooled by their ruse and we won't tolerate having our calls shunted around. When you call, please be polite, but firm. Let the person you are speaking with know you do NOT want to talk to Wetlands or any other EPA division. You want your message delivered directly to Ms. Whitman. State your name and where you are from.
Call Christine Whitman, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at 202-564-4700. If you can't get through there, you can also leave a message for her with Linda Fisher, Deputy Administrator at 202-564-4711 or try the Office of her Chief of Staff, Eileen McGinnis, at 202-564-6999.
Your message could be: --The Administration must not allow the Corps of Engineers to permit the burying of our nations streams and wetlands in mining waste." or --"I am calling to register my opposition to the proposed rule that would allow mountaintop removal coal mining to bury streams." or --"Please do not change Clean Water Act rules to allow the Corps to permit companies to dump waste in waters of the US."
If the person answering the phone says they are not taking messages, which may happen, remind them that you are a taxpayer/member of the public and it is important that, as a public agency, they deliver your message to Ms. Whitman.
More info at in previous action alerts, March 15 and March20.
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