FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Friday, July 25, 2014 Rabel Says No to Mountaintop Removal Mining Independent candidate for Congress, Ed Rabel, kicks off his campaign on Saturday, July 26 by condemning “those who blow up our mountains.” Rabel plans to castigate mountaintop removal when he visits Kayford Mountain in southern West Virginia, one of the worst examples of Big Coal’s practice of blasting off the tops of the state’s precious hills to get at the coal. At least 500 mountains in West Virginia have been destroyed already by mountaintop removal. “I am making this mountain the starting point of my campaign because as this mountain falls, so does our future, and the future of West Virginia’s children, and their children,” Rabel plans to say. “We must put an end to mountaintop removal here and now.” Rabel chose Kayford Mountain because it is the prime example of a peak gone, flattened out of existence. Meanwhile the residue – toxic by-products – mercury, lead, copper, arsenic, chromium – are burying communities, sickening the people, fouling the streams, and devastating forest and wildlife. Despite the shocking moonscape that Kayford Mountain has become, Big Coal wants to shatter the last remaining part of it to get to a thin seam of coal. “This mountain, like our state and its inhabitants, is fighting for its very existence,” Rabel will say. “That is why I pledge to save this mountain, and every other mountain like it, in the name of West Virginia, its people, and our shared future.” -0- Editors please note: Rabel plans to arrive at Kayford Mountain at about 3:30pm on Saturday, July 26. He will be accompanied by campaign workers and Elise Keaton, executive director of the Keeper of the Mountains Foundation.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 19:48:50 +0000
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