OVEC Action Alert - July 22, 2003

All About the EIS-We Need You!

Tune In Tomorrow--United Mine Workers President to Debate Massey Energy President

JULY 24--WE NEED YOU AT MTR EIS HEARING! 

Even if you don't plan to speak, please come out on Thursday, July 24 to the public hearings on the draft Environmental Impact Statement on Mountaintop Removal. There are two hearings Thursday, one from 2 - 5 p.m. and another from 7 - 11 p.m., both at the Charleston Civic Center, Little Theater, 200 Civic Center Drive, Charleston (Quarrier St.).

Kentucky note: There is also a hearing going on right now, Tuesday July 22, and this evening in Hazard, Kentucky at the Forum at the Hal Rogers Center, 101 Bulldog Lane. (2 - 5 p.m. and 7 - 11 p.m.)

We got several options for your hearing-attendance pleasure:

1. Meet us at 5:45 p.m. sharp at the Interstate underpass, on Quarrier and Pennsylvania. We'll quickly hand out "Stop Mountaintop Removal" buttons, and then begin our march. If you have a relevant T-shirt such as "I (Heart) Mountains," please wear that. Coal River Mountain Watch should also have their brand new "Stop Mountaintop Removal" T-shirts available. We plan to march the two blocks to the Civic Center doors by 6:05.

2. Meet us at the Civic Center doors at 6:05. We'll be outside for a bit before we go in together.

3. Find us inside and sit with us.

Once inside, you can sign up to speak. If you don't want to speak, but would like to participate in making a statement in a creative way, please talk with Judy Bonds, Patty Sebok, Janet Fout, Bill Price, Bill McCabe or me (Vivian Stockman).

LAST CALL FOR A FREE RIDE TO THE HEARING
There are still spaces on the vans leaving from the Whitesville area and Huntington. To ride on the Whitesville van call Coal River Mountain Watch ASAP at 304-854-2182. This van is sponsored by the Environmental Justice Program of Sierra Club. To ride the Huntington van, sponsored by OVEC, call 304-522-0246 ASAP.

CALL FOR YOUR COMMENTS --DEADLINE EXTENDED
Thanks to all of you who have sent in your comments about MTR to be included in one big mega-comment on the cultural/social effects of MTR. FYI, we got the most responses ever to any Action Alert! request for feedback. For those of you who didn't make the first round, we got ourselves an extension for compiling the comments, So now there's a new deadline-please get your comments in by July 30. For background, see our July 7 Action Alert.  Everything is the same, except for the new July 30 deadline.

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TUNE IN TOMORROW--UNITED MINE WORKERS PRESIDENT TO DEBATE MASSEY ENERGY PRESIDENT 

Turn on that radio and tune in 10 a.m. tomorrow, Wednesday, July 23 as United Mine Workers of America president Cecil Roberts debates Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship on Hoppy Kercheval's statewide "Talkline" show. In the Charleston area the show will air on WCHS, 580 AM on your radio dial. You can bet Cecil Roberts will run circles around Donnie Blankenship and his union-busting, environment-destroying ways.

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