All Hands on Deck for Virginia!

Larry Bush, Pete Ramey, and Kathy Selvage; Citizens of Wise County and founders of the Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards

One week from today, citizens of Wise County, Virginia, will deliver a mile-long petition to Dominion Resources opposing their plans for a dirty coal fired power plant in Wise County. If you don’t know the background of this campaign yet, click here to learn more.

As you can see from the petition-meter on the right, we still have a lot of petition signatures to gather, and this is where you come in. We have done our best to make it easy for you to organize your networks in support of the people of Wise County who are fighting this terrible threat. Here’s what you can do:

Click here to add the NO DIRTY COAL PLANT! Petition to your facebook profile. But don’t just add it, tell your friends about it and encourage them to sign the petition and put a meter on their own profiles.

Click the “Adopt a Yard” button on the petition meter on the right, and it provides instructions on how to put a meter on almost any website.

people can sign the petition by going to: https://www.appvoices.org/index.php?air/vapetition
and they can learn all about the campaign at:
https://cleanenergyva.org/?p=44

Thanks for your help and we’ll keep you updated on the campaign.

About Matt Wasson

As Appalachian Voices' Director of Programs, Matt has worked on all aspects of the "coal cycle" — from mining, transportation and combustion to the disposal of power plant waste — and is a nationally recognized authority on mountaintop removal coal mining and coal economics. Matt has testified before Congress and appears frequently on expert panels.