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Posted: Sat 12:57 PM, May 23, 2009
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Reporter: WSAZ News Staff Email
Updated: Sat 12:58 PM, May 23, 2009

Activists Chain Themselves To Mine Equipment

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Police removed 11 people demonstrating against Coal Sludge Dams and Mountaintop Removal Saturday morning.

Six people have locked themselves to mining equipment on a Patriot Coal-owned mountaintop removal mine on Kayford Mountain.

Another team of activists has spread a banner 60-feet-long on the surface of Massey Energy’s Brushy Fork coal slurry impoundment near Pettus, W.Va.

The activists are part of a coalition that includes Mountain Justice, Climate Ground Zero and other concerned individuals. These protestors are against Mountaintop removal.

At noon, more protesters converged at the gate to the Brushy Fork dam with hundreds of pairs of shoes to represent the number of immediate deaths should the dam fail.

State Police are aware of the protesters and are checking on the situation.

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