What's My Connection to Mountaintop Removal?
The price of your power: Black Mountain, Virginia
This accident cost too much to go unnoticed.
Jeremy, Dennis and Cindy Davidson's youngest son, was asleep in his room when a half-ton boulder plummeted through his bedroom wall. The dislodged boulder, which had fallen 649 feet, flattened a path across the bed where Jeremy lay. In an instant, the boulder killed young Jeremy's future and crushed his parents' and many Virginians' hearts. Jeremy was three-years-old. Read more.
You are connected to mountaintop removal. Your electricity provider, ComEd - Commonwealth Edison Co, buys coal from companies engaged in mountaintop removal
The story of Black Mountain, Virginia, is one of many that are connected to the power plants on your grid, which are marked on the map below.
The mountaintop removal mines shown in red are connected to the nearest coal power plant on your grid: Fisk Street, operated by Edison Mission Energy.
Click on the mine symbols to take a closer look in Google Maps, or click here for a detailed explanation.
View your connection in Google Earth!
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1. Join the 42,787 people that have already pledged to help end mountaintop removal.
2. Tell others about this page
3. Tell your power company to stop supporting mountaintop removal
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Click any power plant to see how it is connected to mountaintop removal or any mine symbol to get a close-up view of that mine. The controls on the top left of the map allow you to zoom in closer to the ground or back out to get a broader perspective. Even easier, though, is to navigate with the "hand" tool. Clicking and dragging on the map will move the map in the same direction, double-clicking on a point will center the map on that point and zoom you in a little closer, and double clicking with the right mouse button (ctrl-click for macintosh users) to center on a point and zoom out. |
The closest power plant on your grid that is connected to mountaintop removal: 
Other coal-fired power plants on the Commonwealth Edison Co grid that are connected to mountaintop removal
Coal suppliers to your grid that are not mountaintop removal mines, but which are owned by companies that operate mountaintop removal mines in Appalachia
Mountaintop removal mines that are connected to your power grid
Explain my Connection
WHO PROVIDES MY ELECTRICITY?
There are a total of 8 coal-fired power plants on this grid that are connected to mountaintop removal. Following are details on how each is connected to mountaintop removal.
If ComEd - Commonwealth Edison Co is not the company that sends your electric bill, please select your electric provider from the list:
You may also find your utility in the following list:
If your electric provider is not on these lists, please notify us
Plants on the Commonwealth Edison Co grid that do not use mountaintop removal coal directly, but purchase coal from companies that operate mountaintop removal mines in Central Appalachia include:
- Joliet 29 , operated by Edison Mission Energy -- located in Will County, IL
- Crawford , operated by Edison Mission Energy -- located in Cook County, IL
- Joliet 9 , operated by Edison Mission Energy -- located in Will County, IL
- Powerton , operated by Edison Mission Energy -- located in Tazewell County, IL
- Waukegan , operated by Edison Mission Energy -- located in Lake County, IL
- Will County , operated by Edison Mission Energy -- located in Will County, IL
- Fisk Street , operated by Edison Mission Energy -- located in Cook County, IL
- Corn Products Illinois , operated by Corn Products International -- located in Cook County, IL
