Dear Friend,

Big Coal is about to build a gargantuan mine in Alabama, and they were doing their best to hide it from you.

The Rosa Mine would be 3,255 acres, and would be within 100 feet of the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River, the main source of water for the Birmingham area. If approved, this mine would dump millions of gallons of toxic sludge into a river millions of people get their drinking water from every single day.

It gets worse. The only way citizens of Alabama found out about this monstrosity? Because someone who lived near by heard bulldozers and went to check it out. Big Coal was keeping it quiet so that we couldn’t speak up.

The Alabama Surface Mining Commission is only taking public comments until August 1st, so we have to act today to stop this massive dirty mine.

I just signed a petition to tell the Alabama Surface Mining Commission to reject the permit for the giant dirty Rosa Mine. I hope you will, too. Please have a look and take action.

I agree with Mr. Mullen that we need to fight this thing…all the way.

Concerned citizens should stand behind the Warrior Riverkeepers – they keep the gloves on.

We can hope in this case Mr. Peabody’s coal train will not be able to haul Blount County away.

But some kind of jobs are needed around here, and that alone may cause opposition to be weak.