Why Mountain Justice?

Mountain Justice Summer is a call to action and a request for help from the people of the Appalachia mountains for help in saving our mountains, streams–and forest from greedy coal companies. But why are we asking for help?

Over 1200 miles of stream have been buried and destroyed and countless mountains and ridge tops have been blown up–gone for all eternity. Additionally, under the Bush administration, laws have been altered to encourage and accelerate the destruction. The price of coal has doubled and the destruction of our watersheds is accelerating and spreading out like cancer, not slowing down. Our state and federal agencies charged with protecting our environment are liquidating our mountains.

We are losing. And our loss is not only for our own generation–but for future generations as well. Where now there are barren scraped biologically dead toxic wastelands there used to be water producing mountains. Water is going to matter to the future generations more than coal. You cannot drink coal. The Pentagon has predicted than many of the future wars on our planet will not be fought over coal or oil–but for water. The lack of clean drinking water is already a global problem for humanity, as our population increases it will only get worse. A mainstay of supermarket shelves across North America is water. The destruction of water producing mountains is not only a crime of the present–but is a very real attack on the future generations–you cannot drink coal.

We cannot afford to continue losing this struggle. A few already rich executives in coal companies are getting wealthier at the expense of us all. The acceleration of mountain top, side and ridge removal is a curse on the future–and present generations. We need your help.

We can use anything you can offer. If you would like to come defend the mountains with us, please join us! To learn what we've been up to all summer, look at our previous actions. To learn more about mountain top removal, just look at the facts.