In West Virginia, fourteen anti-coal protesters were arrested Thursday when they attempted to scale a 150-foot-high excavating machine at a mine owned by Massey Energy and unfurled a huge banner that read “Stop Mountaintop Removal.” The piece of equipment, known as a dragline, can remove house-sized chunks of blasted rock and earth. The protest shut down Massey’s Twilight Mine for several hours.
14 Anti-Coal Activists Arrested at West Virginia Mine
HeadlineJun 19, 2009