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• Urgent: Fax or Call Today for Coal River Mountain

• Free: Your Own Sneak Peek DVD of Coal Country

• WOC On(line)

• Another Chance to See Mountain Top Removal on WV PBS

 Urgent: Fax or Call Today for Coal River Mountain
Massey Energy has begun blasting on Coal River Mountain! Nearby residents are calling for a commercial wind farm on this mountain, instead of the permanent destruction resulting from mountaintop removal. Studies show, that in the long run, the wind farm would provide far more tax revenue to local government and far more permanent jobs than would mountaintop removal. The wind potential only exists as long as the mountain remains intact, at full elevation. 

Please take action to stop the blasting! Please fax President Obama today at 202-456-2461. Implore him to direct his agencies, and to use his influence with West Virginia politicians, to stop the destruction of Coal River Mountain immediately.  If you'd rather, you can call in your comments to 202-456-1414, but faxes are preferable, as you can be certain your comments are recorded just as you made them.

Here's some of the blogosphere's writings on what is happening:
Breaking: Mountaintop Removal Begins on Coal River Mountain -- Help Needed Now
WVDEP confirms: Blasting starts on Coal River Mountain
Urgent Action Need: We Face a National Security Threat on Coal River Mountain
Blasting begins on W.Va. mountaintop where enviros want a wind farm
Battle at Coal River Mountain Explodes: Green Jobs Vs. Big Coal Showdown (EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS)

Please spread the word about what is going on. Please write letters to the editor or blog, and help generate more faxes to the Whitehouse. Thank you! 

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 Free: Your Own Sneak Peek DVD of Coal Country
As mentioned in our latest newsletter, OVEC and other grassroots groups are partnering with the Sierra Club to offer you your own free sneak peek DVD of  Coal Country when you sign up to host a house party. The deadline for signing up is November 1, so take action soon!

Watch Coal Country on Planet Green, November 14, 15, 19 and 20.

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 WOC On(line)
The October issue of OVEC's Winds of Change newsletter is now online.  Dues-paying OVEC members should have already received the print version of the newsletter, unless they have indicated they prefer to save paper by reading the newsletter online.

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 Another Chance to See Mountain Top Removal on WV PBS
Nov. 2: 8 p.m. Haw River Film's feature documentary Mountain Top Removal, directed by Michael C O'Connell, will be re-broadcast on West Virginia PBS digital channel 2. This broadcast is timely, as the Raleigh County school board recently voted to move for approval for building a new school to replace Marsh Fork Elementary in the Coal River Valley. West Virginia resident and grandfather Ed Wiley and Marsh Fork Elementary are central characters in the film.

Underwriting for the film's national PBS distribution was provided in part by OVEC. In April of 2008 Mountain Top Removal received the Reel Current award form Al Gore at the Nashville Film Festival.

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