From the Kanawha Forest Coalition CALENDAR ITEMS: -Our next Kanawha Forest Coalition meeting will be this Thursday, July 31, 5:30 pm at the Kanawha United Presbyterian Church (1009 Virginia St E, Charleston). Come on down and help us plan the petition delivery and other upcoming actions and events. -The final Surface Mine Board hearing on our appeal will be Monday August 11, 8:30am at the DEP building in Kanawha City (601 57th St SE). We will meet in the main lobby and they will escort us back to the hearing room. It would be great to have a good turnout there. If the SMB fails to rule in our favor at this hearing, we will be filing a lawsuit the following week. UPDATES: -LEGAL: We Filed a Motion for Stay with the Surface Mine Board (SMB) and that hearing took place last Thursday. We were asking the SMB to stop work on the KD2 mine until the August 11 hearing. This Stay request was based on the likelihood of imminent harm to endangered bat habitat. We also discovered that the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) had never signed off on the permit as required by WV Code Chapter 22, Article 3, Section 22(d)(2). The SBM denied our request for stay. Final hearing is August 11th, as noted above. -PETITION: The petition calling on Governor Tomblin to rescind the KD#2 permit now has nearly 3,500 signatures. Help up make the final push to 5,000 and thanks so much to all of you who have already sent signatures in! Remember you can download and print the petition forms at tinyurl/kfcfiles You can scan your full petitions and email them to kanawhaforestcoalition@gmail OR You can mail your petitions to: Kanawha Forest Coalition PO BOX 722 Charleston, WV 25323 -YARD SIGNS: Another batch of yard signs has arrived! They can be picked up from: Company Bicycle - 1607 Kanawha Blvd W, Charleston, WV 25302 ph#(304) 744-7433 and Charleston Bicycle Center - 409 53rd St SE, Charleston, WV 25304 ph#(304) 925-8348 during business hours (call ahead to make sure they still have signs). Signs are FREE. If you have the financial resources to make a donation it would be greatly appreciated. $5 will cover the cost of a sign and you are certainly welcome to contribute as much or as little as you are comfortable with.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 17:52:23 +0000
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