Stop Massey's Mountaintop Removal Madness
May 18, 2004
Photos by Vivian Stockman
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Rally Outside Massey Energy's Annual Shareholder Meeting
As the greedheads who make up the Massey Energy board of directors
and stockholders held their annual shareholders' meeting in Charleston,
W.Va., about 100 people gathered outside the meeting to protest Massey's
terrible environmental record. Three coalfield residents, Freda
Williams, Pauline Canterberry and Marry Miller, all angry with Massey
Energys behavior in their communities, had proxies and were able to address
the shareholders. EarthCop "arrested" activists who were parodying Massey Energy executives and
board of directors, citing them for practicing mountaintop removal
mining, the most destructive method of coal mining.
For decades, Massey Energys mountaintop removal mining has left
Appalachian communities at risk from dangerous blasting, increased
flooding and faulty slurry impoundments.
Blast by blast and flood by flood, Massey Energys irresponsible
mining practices are destroying Appalachia, said Pauline Canterberry
of Sylvester, a member of Coal River Mountain Watch, who addressed the
shareholders. Massey Energy is blasting away our peaks, burying our
streams in mining waste and covering our communities with toxic slurry,
and the Bush administration is letting them get away with it. Instead of
making a fast buck on the backs of Appalachians, Massey Energy needs to
be a good neighbor and clean up its act.
We hope our protest today sends a message loud and clear to Massey
Energys stockholders: Massey Energy's destruction of Appalachia is
not only a crime against the people and the earth, but it's also
economic insanity, said Canterberry.
Friends of the Mountains organized the protest. The Ohio Valley Environmental
Coalition plays a major role in FOM. Member groups include Appalachian
Voices, Coal River Mountain Watch, Citizens Coal Council, Delbarton
Environmental Community Awareness Foundation, Sierra Club-West Virginia
Chapter, Stanley Heirs Foundation, West Virginia Citizen Action Group,
West Virginia Environmental Council, West Virginia Highlands
Conservancy, and West Virginia Rivers Coalition.
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EarthCop calls the EPA (the Earth Police Academy) to
report Massey Energy's terrible environmental practices.
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Victims of Massey come out to let shareholders know the truth. |
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Another victim of Massey puts the shareholders on notice.
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From just a few months old, to over 80, people upset with Massey Energy
made the trek to Charleston to protest outside the shareholders' meeting.
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EarthCop reads the list of Massey violations.
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Massey's logo, slightly modified...
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