Daryl Hannah Arrested During West Virginia Mountaintop Protest
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Darryl Hannah is arrested by West Virginia State Police following a mountaintop removal mining protest in Naoma, West Virgina on June 23, 2009
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Darryl Hannah speaks at a mountaintop removal mining protest in Naoma, West Virgina on June 23, 2009
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Darryl Hannah is arrested by West Virginia State Police following a mountaintop removal mining protest in Naoma, West Virgina on June 23, 2009
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FIRST PUBLISHED: June 23, 2009 5:19 PM EDT
NAOMA, West Virginia --
Actress Daryl Hannah, NASA scientist James Hansen and more than two dozen other mountaintop removal mining opponents have been arrested during a protest in southern West Virginia.
State Police said about 30 people were charged Tuesday afternoon after they blocked State Route 3 near a Massey Energy subsidiary’s coal processing plant in Raleigh County.
They were among several hundred protesters who held a rally outside an elementary school that sits about 300 feet away from the plant’s coal storage silo.
After the rally, the crowd marched quietly to the plant and attempted to enter the property. They were blocked by several hundred coal miners chanting “Massey.”
Hannah, Hansen, former Rep. Ken Hechler and 27 others then sat on the road and were arrested on misdemeanor charges of obstruction and impeding traffic.
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