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Winds of Change Newsletter, December 2008 See sidebar for table of contents
OVECs Cemetery Protection Campaign
Larry Gibson and his familys efforts to keep their
ancestors from being dug up were not successful. A number of graves in
their Stover cemetery were damaged or destroyed.
As a consequence of the mad rush to blow up mountains
and dump them into valleys to get the coal out as quickly as possible,
family cemeteries all over the coalfields are disappearing or
threatened, such as the one pictured at right, with a mountaintop
removal mine advancing in the background. Its time to pass a law that
will protect them.
Were working on introducing a bill for the 2009
Legislative session. We welcome your suggestions, questions, information
and involvement call Robin Blakeman at the OVEC office, (304)
522-0246.
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