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Coal mining is an important issue among Catholics as indicated in the October 2007 issue of the Saint Anthony Messenger feature article “The Tragedy of Mountaintop Removal” By Karen Hurley. Father John Rausch, director of the Catholic Committee of Appalachia is working with interfaith leaders to expose the full cost of coal-generated electricity.
http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/Oct2007/Feature4.asp Fr. Rausch has been leading tours for several years to call attention to a devastating method of coal extraction called mountaintop removal. A tour last May [2007] ended on a mountaintop in Eastern Kentucky where an assortment of interfaith leaders signed a joint statement calling their respective faith communities to act now to stop the practice of mountaintop removal.
These leaders pledged to examine how their own lifestyles are driving this environmental disaster—and global warming—by the constant demand for cheap electricity from coal.
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