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Mountain-Top Removal Protest

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Published February 15, 2012 at 5:23 PM EST

Mickey Inez, right, Thomas Madison, center, and Lisa Abbott carry the mountain's as they protest mountaintop removal Tuesday at the Capitol. The mountain, covered by pinwheels, was placed on the Governor's Mansion lawn.

For the last several years on Valentine’s Day, hundreds have gathered at the Capitol to protest mountaintop removal mining, saying the process pollutes Kentucky’s waterways and causes health problems. Now they say they can prove it. “We finally have the peer-reviewed studies to back what we’ve been saying all along, that mountaintop removal’s been killing our people,” said Teri Blanton, a Berea resident and member of Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, as she prepared for Tuesday’s rally at the Capitol.

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