Mountain top removal mining address:http://www.stopmountaintopremoval.org/ Being this effects the lands of many of my ancestors it just broke my heart. I thought with strip mining outlawed this was behind us. Thought our group might be interested in this subject. Sadly this affects the land of many of our ancestors, cemeteries, our people and the environment. NC has laws banning this....Lois Mountaintop Removal Mining A form of strip mining that has grown increasingly notorious for laying waste to mountains and their forests, streams and wildlife, and for the consequences inflicted on people who live nearby: flooding, desecration of cemeteries, round-the-clock explosions that damage wells and houses and shatter nerves, and loss of the family "homeplace" and mountain culture. With Mountaintop Removal, Even the Dead Can't Rest in Peace address:http://westvirginia.sierraclub.org/newsletter/archives/2007/11/a_011.h tml Imagine forcing family members to sign release forms before they can go visit family cemeteries on land bought up by the coal companies. The old mountaintop cemetery, covered with daylilies shaded by maples, sassafras, basswood and many other hardwood tree-species, is an oasis surrounded by over 12,000 acres of active and "reclaimed" mountaintop removal mines. Laws require mountaintop removal operations to relocate cemeteries from mining, or to not mine within 100 feet of cemeteries and to give people access to cemeteries remaining on otherwise mined land. . Life isn't about how to survive the storm but how to dance in the rain.