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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