Three Remain in Jail Following Anti-Coal Resistance

Yes­ter­day, four indi­vid­u­als halt­ed blast­ing on Coal Riv­er Moun­tain. They are now charged with tres­pass­ing, con­spir­a­cy, obstruc­tion, and lit­ter­ing; bail has been set at $2,000 cash-only per-per­son.

Yes­ter­day, four indi­vid­u­als halt­ed blast­ing on Coal Riv­er Moun­tain. They are now charged with tres­pass­ing, con­spir­a­cy, obstruc­tion, and lit­ter­ing; bail has been set at $2,000 cash-only per-per­son.

Ear­ly this morn­ing, we were able to bail Nick Mar­tin out of jail. He glad­ly gave his thoughts on the action, “I’m proud to have been part of some­thing that suc­cess­ful­ly stopped blast­ing. This act of non­vi­o­lent civ­il dis­obe­di­ence is only a small piece of a resound­ing call to save Coal Riv­er Moun­tain.”

The pow­er­ful actions of our friends did not go unno­ticed by com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers. Bo Webb, a res­i­dent of Nao­ma said, “The peo­ple of the Coal Riv­er Val­ley who are threat­ened by this sludge dam fail­ure are appre­cia­tive, at least I am very appre­cia­tive, and proud of these folks to risk arrest of them­selves in order to pro­tect this com­mu­ni­ty.”

In light of his return home, Nick fur­ther stat­ed, “I am glad to be out of jail and back in a lov­ing com­mu­ni­ty of friends, thanks to every­one who sup­port­ed us dur­ing this action. I can’t wait to see the oth­ers and I hope we can bail them out soon.”

Lau­ra Von Dohlen, Grace Williams, and Dea Gob­lirsch will remain in jail until we can gath­er enough dona­tions to bail them out as well.

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