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From our Partners at Appalachian Voices
Act now to help Appalachian Voices and WV Highlands Conservancy protect the pristine Cherry River in West Virginia!
Our public lands are places of refuge for people and wild creatures, and they deserve protection! But in West Virginia, South Fork Coal Company has released heavy metals and sediment into the pristine Cherry River — a key tributary of the world-famous Gauley River — at least 80 times since 2019. This pollution is facilitated by an illegal coal-haul road that operates within the Monongahela National Forest.
Protect the Monongahela National Forest!
After grassroots complaints brought this issue to light and succeeded in temporarily shutting the company’s illegal haul road down, South Fork Coal is now requesting an after-the-fact exception to the well-established, decades-old prohibition on most mining activity within the national forest.
Speak out today! Tell the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement to reject this renegade company’s assault on our public land and protect the Cherry River, the Gauley River watershed and the Monongahela National Forest from South Fork Coal Company’s irresponsible, destructive and polluting operations. Send your letter to federal regulators!
The Monongahela Nation Forest is very important for the critters and for us, the people. Sometimes it is important for us to have a place to go to to get away from all that is going on and have a pleasant time with nature.
The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement must reject the renegade company’s assault on OUR public lands.
We ask you, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement to reject this renegade company’s assault on our public land and protect the Cherry River, the Gauley River watershed and the Monongahela National Forest from South Fork Coal Company’s irresponsible, destructive and polluting operations. Wild, Wonderful West Virginia should not become a blighted area as other wild areas have become due to exploitive behavior of fossil fuel extraction companies. They take the minerals from the ground and leave pollution in their wake. Local governments that are unable to provide needed services to their populations are unable to deal with the waste the contaminates the land and waterways.