Thursday, October 15, 2009

Mountain Top Removal Hearing


Cameron Martin of Whitesburg, Ky. holds daughter Makenna Martin, age 4, while waiting outside of the Eastern Kentucky Expo Center with his son Logan Martin, age 7. Martin is a miner and works for Nally and Hamilton in Whitesburg.


Dwayne Caudill holds son Braxton while waiting outside the Eastern Kentucky Expo Center for a hearing about Nation Wide Permit 21. Caudill is a miner and works for Nally and Hamilton in Whitesburg, Ky.


Chuck Baker and Ariana Sizemore wait outside the Eastern Kentucky Expo Center for a hearing about Nation Wide Permit 21. Baker is a miner and works for Nally and Hamilton in Leslie County, Ky.


Cari Moore of Garner, Ky. debates against mountian top removale with a couple of miners before the hearing on Nation Wide Permit 21. Moore said, "When their kids are grown there is not going to be coal to mine and theres not going to be anything."


Greg Capillo a Western Kentucky University student and activist came from Bowling Green, Ky. to Pikeville, Ky. to attend the hearing on Nation Wide Permit 21. Capillo is known at WKU for his anti-mountian top removal activism.

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