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Dominion's Connection To Mountain Top Removal

What is mountain top removal? What is the connection Dominion's plan for a new power plant?

Kathy Selvage, Vice President of Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards, says it best:

"In 2005, a coal company named Glamorgan Properties LLC came to my community. Our community was a narrow valley sitting between two high lush green mountain ridges. They decapitated and rearranged one of those until it was not recognizable. What they left was heaps of rubble and a large barren hillside. On the face of these steep hillsides lie the boulders, rocks, and soil that are blasted from the top and then shoved downslope. Then, the company left abruptly and filed for bankruptcy in a federal courtroom in Texas, leaving their environmental disaster behind. Even today, after the permit has been revoked and the state is in supervision of the reclamation, the blasting continues.

"Someday, I may be forced to leave because my mind and my eyes can no longer stand to look at the disaster I see every day. It was my Mother’s custom to have her early morning Bible reading on her front porch with the trees, the birds singing, and the mountain ridge she faced as she was contemplating what she had just read. She was forced to move inside because she could no longer stand the noise, dust, and smell that was invading her “Morning with the Lord”. I wonder by what miracle this land and this mountain could be restored. I do not believe it can be. It’s just another one gone--gone forever. If the new proposed power plant is built in Wise County, I know that many more of the beautiful lush mountains will give way to heaps of rubble in order to supply the fuel for the plant. That is what brought me here today!"

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