{"id":727840,"date":"2010-05-17T14:57:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T18:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=84950"},"modified":"2010-05-17T14:57:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T18:57:24","slug":"court-sets-bail-for-mountaintop-mining-protestors-at-100000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/727840","title":{"rendered":"Court Sets Bail for Mountaintop Mining Protestors at $100,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two young activists arrested this morning for protesting mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia will have to come up with $100,000 in bail if they want to leave jail any time soon, a West Virginia court ruled today. The Associated Press <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wtop.com\/?nid=111&amp;sid=1958994\" >reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Chief Sheriff&#8217;s Deputy Chad Barker says 18-year-old EmmaKate Martin and 23-year-old Ben Bryant were charged with trespassing, conspiracy, obstruction and littering.<\/p>\n<p>He says they left garbage near their platform over the road in Julian.<span id=\"more-84950\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The irony of the last charge certainly won&#8217;t be lost on Appalachian environmentalists and community groups, who&#8217;ve been screaming for decades about the polluting effects of mountaintop removal, mostly to deaf ears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two young activists arrested this morning for protesting mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia will have to come up with $100,000 in bail if they want to leave jail any time soon, a West Virginia court ruled today. The Associated Press reports: Chief Sheriff&#8217;s Deputy Chad Barker says 18-year-old EmmaKate Martin and 23-year-old Ben Bryant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2763,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-33lm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}