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Biomass Incinerator withdraws permit application in Indiana
The Concerned Citizens of Crawford County have just announced that
Liberty Green Renewables LLC (LGR), the company proposing to build a 32
megawatt biomass incinerator in Milltown, Indiana, has withdrawn its
permit application to discharge wastewater from the plant on-site,
effectively signaling a successful conclusion to an eighteen month
organizing effort to stop the incinerator.
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Heartwood Mini-Grants—Apply Now!
The purpose of the mini-grant program is to provide funding for activists who need it. The mini-grant program seeks to provide funding for creative efforts and ideas fomented by Heartwood members and member groups. Efforts and ideas could range from Heartwood's roots as a forest protection organization to current efforts to stop mountaintop removal and biomass projects to ideas we have not considered at this time.
Download the MiniGrant Guideline & application document (PDF).
Coal Country Music
Mountaintop Removal CD
Heartwood partnered with singer/songwriter Jason Wilber, guitar player for John Prine, to produce a compilation CD of music by nationally known recording artists, to raise awareness about and help stop the tragedy of mountaintop removal coal-mining.
Coal Country Music is the companion CD to the award-winning documentary Coal Country by film-makers Mari-Lynn Evans and Phylis Geller whose previous documentary, The Appalachians, was widely shown on PBS. Coal Country Music includes liner notes by Ashley Judd and Woody Harrelson and information about the Alliance for Appalachia. All proceeds from the sale of the CD will be used to support the work of the Alliance for Appalachia of which Heartwood is a member and be used to STOP mountaintop removal coal-mining.
For more information, contact Andy Mahler, 812.723.2430
