The Masses Amass Against Maniacal, Messy Massey

On May 18, as the greedheads who make up the Massey Energy board of directors and stockholders held their annual shareholders’ meeting in Charleston, WV, about 100 people gathered outside the meeting to protest Massey’s terrible environmental record.

Three coalfield residents, Freda Williams, Pauline Canterberry and Mary Miller, all angry with Massey Energy’s behavior in their communities, had proxies and spoke the truth about Massey to the shareholders.

EarthCop visited our protest to "arrest" activists who were parodying Massey Energy’s executives and board of directors, citing them for practicing mountaintop removal mining, the most destructive method of coal mining.

For decades, Massey Energy’s mountaintop removal mining has left Appalachian communities at risk from dangerous blasting, increased flooding and faulty slurry impoundments. 

Friends of the Mountains (FOM) organized the protest. OVEC 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.

If It's Messy, It Must Be MASSEY

EarthCop (center) holds up a skeletal fish – something to be on the look out for in streams near Massey coal sludge impoundments.

EcoCrimes seems to fit Massey rather well.		One of Massey’s "stockholders," jailed for acts of eco-terrorism.

Just a few of the folks who disagree with Massey's corporate policies.

Massey Energy Co. : Raping Our Homeland - the big banner that got the police really excited at one point.