July 20, 2010 I filed a citizen's complaint on Mountainside Coal OSM permit # 3058 for having run off water bypass a sediment pond for over a year now which illegal with discharges directly into Straight Creek. I also filed a citizen's complaint on a black water spill the occurred on 7-19-2010 into Rock Creek most likely from the Marion Coal Tipple or associated mining activity in the area.
July 20, 2010 I faxed in information to help set up tabling at the Great Smokey Mountains National Park for this coming weekend.
July 20, 2010 I attended a meeting about Story Corps at Unitarian Universalist Church at 6PM
July 20, 2010 I attended the United Mountain Defense volunteer meeting at 7PM at Barley's and typed up and sent out the volunteer meeting notes to the local UMD email listserve.
July 17, 2010 Jordan and Ollie did tabling at Market Square during the Market Square Farmer's Market 9am-2pm.
July 17, 2010 Ollie and I did tabling at Cutthroat Shamrock Irish Punk Rock show at Barley's in Knoxville, TN.
July 16, 2010 I participated in a conference call of the monthly Mountain Justice meeting in Coal River, West Virginia for about 5 hours.
July 16, 2010 Ollie and I did tabling at the Knoxville Museam of Art Live After Five with Blue Mother Tupelo.
July 15, 2010 Jordan and Ollie tabled at the New Harvest Farmer's Market 4PM-6PM Knoxville.
July 14, 2010 Ollie and Jordan tabled at the Market Square Farmer's Market 11am-2pm.
July 13, 2010 I communicated with UMD intern Peter Murrey who is working on GIS mapping of coal mines to figure out if coal mines are going outside of their permit boundaries. Peter has already found at least 4-5 coal mines that have broken their boundaries. I will help instruct Peter in how to file citizen's complaints and will be accompanying him on site visits to the coal mines.
July 13, 2010 Mary Gibson and I attended a public meeting about Kopper Glo Straight Creek Surface Mine in Caryville, TN. We learned a lot of valuable information and requested an audio copy of the public meeting from TDEC.
July 12, 2010 Jordan and Ollie tabled at Preservation Pub.
July 9, 2010 Jenny and Ollie table at the Bijou Theater.
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