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The Mountain That Lost Its Top

                   
clipmarks.com
May 20, 2008
        
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clipped by: papananookclipper's remarks: The devastation being wrought on Appalachia is best appreciated from the air. An organisation called Southwinds offers people an eagle-eye view of the carnage, not readily appreciated from the road. Another way to see what’s going on behind the ridge-line... [read full story]                    

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The Environmental Crime No Politician Will Confront

 alternet.org May 21, 2008
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The mountain that lost its top

 independent.co.uk May 19, 2008
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The Environmental Crime No Politician Will Confront

alternet.org
May 21, 2008
        

Why neither Barack Obama nor Hillary Clinton have dared to challenge "King Coal" while campaigning. That was before the coal industry began blowing up the Appalachian Mountains as a cheap way of getting at the black stuff below, behaviour decried by the environmental group Appalachian Voices as...

Kentucky coal

andrewbartlett.com
May 21, 2008
        

Kentucky is fleetingly in the news today because of the US Presidential primaries, but I wish there was more attention being paid to the extraordinarily destructive coal mining that has been going on in that state day after day. There is a lot of debate about how to reduce coal consumption and...

The Mountain That Lost Its Top

worldproutassembly.org
May 21, 2008
        

Daniel Boone’s road is now the Hal Rogers Parkway, named after one of the Kentucky coal industry’s closest friends in Washington, a Republican Congressman of 34 years. It passes through a mountain range older than the Himalayas and is blanketed in broadleaf forests rivalled only by the Amazon...

Mining Mountaintop Removal

wordpress.com
May 20, 2008
        

The act of destroying a million-year-old mountain has several distinct stages. First it is earmarked for removal and the hardwood forest cover, containing over 500 species of tree per acre in this region, is bulldozed away. The trees are typically burnt rather than logged, because mining...

                   

The coal industry and the environment

wordpress.com
May 20, 2008
        

We know how the coal industry is contributing heavily to global warming---more than any other industry. That was before the coal industry began blowing up the Appalachian Mountains as a cheap way of getting at the black stuff below, behaviour decried by the environmental group Appalachian Voices...

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