Gov. Don Siegelman spent 57 days in ''The Hole''

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23. This issue goes beyond the political

This is truly the effects of the corporate take over. I met Siegelman and his wife about fifteen years ago at an wilderness event. They were there and very open to conversation. The Governor did evade serious talk about the clear-cutting and strip-mining interest. His wife did not hold back. She made it clear that the Governor was not making any friends among those people.

Who am I talking about -

Lets look at two

Drummond Company, Inc. is a privately owned company based in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, involved in the mining and processing of coal and coal products as well as oil and real estate.

BOGOTA, Colombia – A former contractor for the U.S.-based coal company Drummond Co. has been convicted of murder and sentenced to nearly 38 years in prison as the mastermind of the 2001 killing of two union leaders.

The trial judge also ordered prosecutors to investigate Drummond's U.S.-based president and three current and former employees to determine whether they might also be responsible.

The killings are the subject of a U.S. lawsuit and have drawn considerable attention because several witnesses, including the convicted man, Jaime Blanco, allege senior managers of Alabama-based Drummond ordered them.


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Burkes Mechanical Hammermill Division at 601 County Road 78, Selma, AL 36703

Hammermill Paper Co is a superfund site located at 294 Mill St, Centreville, AL 35042.

Hammermill Paper Company Lake Dam is a Dam in Bibb County, AL

Hammermill Papers Group
River Rd, Selma, AL 36701
National Priorities List: No
Status: Archived
Hammermill Papers Group is a superfund site located at River Rd, Selma, AL 36701. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identifies sites such as Hammermill Papers Group because they pose or had once posed a potential risk to human health and/or the environment due to contamination by one or more hazardous wastes. Hammermill Papers Group is currently registered as an Archived superfund site by the EPA and does not require any clean up action or further investigation at this time.


I can not even begin to describe the damage done by these two companies to the environment in alabama. They are after the last little bits of the protected land in alabama.

this is what they are after

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