The Drake presentation is in Olin Hall, room 206, at
3:00 on Friday.
Thanks,
Jane
Clark
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Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 2:22
PM
Subject: Mountain Top Removal Road Shows This
Week
> Mountaintop Removal Mining for Coal-to-Liquids Madness
>
presented by Dave Cooper, Sierra Club, Lexington, Kentucky.
>
> At
these locations this week--please see details at the end of this
message.
> Oct 23 Iowa State Univ
> Oct 23 Dubuque Iowa Sierra
Club
> Oct 24 Cornell College, Mt Vernon Iowa
> Oct 24 Univ of
Iowa
> Oct 24 Iowa City Public Library
> Oct 25 Upper Iowa Univ,
Fayette IA
> Oct 25 Univ of Northern Iowa
> Oct 26 Iowa State
Univ
> Oct 26 Drake Univ, Des Moines
>
> Mountaintop
Removal
>
> The Mountaintop Removal presentation includes a
stunning 22-minute slide
> show about the impacts of mountaintop removal
on coalfield residents,
> communities and the environment, and features
traditional Appalachian
> mountain music and shocking aerial photos of
decapitated Appalachian
> mountains.
>
> In West Virginia,
Virginia, Tennessee and eastern Kentucky, coal companies
> blast as much
as 600 feet off the top of the mountains, then dump the rock
> and debris
into mountain streams.
>
> Over 300,000 acres of the most beautiful
and productive hardwood forests in
> America have already been turned into
barren grasslands. Mountaintop removal
> mining increases flooding,
contaminates drinking water supplies, cracks
> foundations of nearby
homes, and showers towns with dust and noise from
> blasting.
>
> There is no charge for the presentation; however donations and
honorariums
> to defray gas and travel expenses are gratefully
accepted.
>
>
> Iowa State Univ.
> Where:Ames
Iowa
> When:Oct 23 12:40 PM
> Notes:Tara Clapp [log in to unmask]
> 515 290
9713
> College of Design
>
> White Pine Sierra Club
Group
> Where:Dubuque Iowa
> When:Oct 23 7:00 PM
> Basement of
US Bank
> Kennedy Road & Wacker on Dubuque's west end
>
>
Cornell College, Mt Vernon Iowa
> When: Oct 24 12:00 PM
> The
Commons Student Union - Hedges Lounge
> 319 895 4306
>
> Iowa
City Iowa
> Where:Public Library
> When:Oct 24 7:00 PM
>
Notes:[log in to unmask] 319 594 6453
>
> Upper Iowa
Univ.
> Where:Fayette Iowa
> When:Oct 25 12:00 PM
> Notes:Dr
Katherine McCarville
> [log in to unmask]
>
Baker Hebron Science Hall 101
>
> Univ. of Northern Iowa
>
Where:Waterloo Iowa
> When:Oct 25 7:00 PM
> Notes:Dr Kamyar
Enshayan
> [log in to unmask]
> UNI
Center for Energy and Env Education
>
> Iowa State Univ
>
Where:Ames Iowa
> When:Oct 26 12:00 PM
> Notes:Dr James Pritchard
[log in to unmask]
> 515 294
8830
> Science II room 135
>
> Drake University
>
Where:Des Moines Iowa
> When:Oct 26 3:00 PM
>
Notes:[log in to unmask]
> Biology and Env. Science Seminar
>
515 271 2920
> location TBD
>
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