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Associated Press - October 8, 2009 11:15 AM ET
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Eight environmental activists over age 50 are marching 25 miles to protest mountaintop removal mining in southern West Virginia.
Led by 81-year-old military veteran Roland Micklem of Savannah, N.Y., the group left Charleston after a rally Thursday morning at the Capitol. About a dozen younger supporters marched with them.
Other supporters will join them periodically as they make their way to Richmond, Va.-based Massey Energy's Mammoth mine in eastern Kanawha County by Monday afternoon.
There, they plan to engage in an unspecified act of civil disobedience.
Climate Ground Zero is organizing the march with Mountain Justice, Intergenerational Justice and Christians for the Mountains.
On the Net:
Climate Ground Zero: http://www.climategroundzero.org
Massey Energy: http://www.masseyenergyco.com
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