On January 19th, The GCV Board of Directors voted unanimously to support Senator Patsy Ticer’s bill, “The Streamsaver’s Bill,” (SB 564) to end mountaintop removal, the devastating coal mining practice in Southwest Virginia that destroys mountains, pollutes headwater streams, eliminates biodiversity, and adversely impacts the health and welfare of area residents.

Support for this atrocious practice is gaining support by the day thanks to you and people like you who are willing to go that extra mile. My friend and I will be going to Washington in March to help lobby against mountain top removal. Something I am very excited about as it will be our first time actually “taking action”. It is beyond me how the people can’t see what is happening to them. To me it would be like knowing that someone was putting a pillow over my child’s face or putting poison in their water and I stood by and did nothing so that I would not lose my job. It’s exactly the same thing. I think most people if they actually had to choose right at that moment their child’s life or their job would choose their child. The coal companies are killing our children. It’s just that the way they are doing it is so slow and covert that many people can’t see it. Again thank you.