NO MORE COAL event sponsored by Environmental Council at UW-La Crosse
What: Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Demonstration
When: 11:00AM on Thursday, February 18
Location: Wittich Field west of UW-La Crosse coal-fired heating plant, east of Wittich Hall.
UW-La Crosse students, faculty and staff are invited to gather around a large pile of snow mimicking a mountain next to the campus coal-fired heating plant to demonstrate against the devastating impact of “mountaintop removal” coal mining occurring in the Appalachian Mountains. The mountain of snow will be dramatically destroyed by a student who will represent coal buried inside the snow pile.
UW-L and 14 other state-owned plants currently burn coal supplied through a contract with Massey Energy and Alpha Natural Resources, companies that use mountaintop removal methods that damage natural areas, ecosystems, rivers and streams, and people and communities of Appalachia.
Information on Mountaintop Removal: http://www.sierraclub.org/coal/mtr/
Contact:
Elizabeth Ward, UW-L Environmental Council member
Mobile: (608) 445-4489
Email: ward.eliz@students.uwlax.edu
