From the WV Gazette:
“More than 30 people — including actress Daryl Hannah and NASA climate scientist James Hansen — were arrested Tuesday in the latest protest in a growing civil disobedience campaign against mountaintop removal in Southern West Virginia.
Thirty-one protesters were charged with obstructing officers and impeding traffic after they sat down in the middle of W.Va. 3 outside Massey Energy’s Goals Coal preparation plant in Raleigh County.”
“We have to phase out greenhouse emissions over the next 20 years,” Hansen said during an interview before his arrest. “Where should you start? Well, mountaintop removal is producing only 7 percent of the nation’s coal, and it’s a dangerous practice.”
In a brief speech to the rally, Hannah addressed the miners in the crowd.
“I’d like to thank all of the miners for all of the work you’ve done powering America,” she said. “But there is no need to destroy our planet to power our future.”
Read the rest of the article: Daryl Hannah, scientist among 30 arrested at W.Va. mine protest
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