seriously, wtf is wrong is with the nutter liberals who have posted in this thread. start your own thread, this thread is about america the beautiful, why in the world would you want to shit on that with your blatant hatred....
Hatred? What kind of twisted mind do you have Yurt. If you love America the beautiful, WHY is it you right wingers never call out the polluters and dirty energy cartels who destroy what you 'claim' to love?
Razing Appalachia
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Mountaintop removal mining is the practice of blasting off the tops of mountains so machines called draglines can mine coal deposits. Coal mining companies dump the mountaintops into nearby valleys and streams to create "valley fills," converting mountain landscapes covered in hardwood forests into fields of sparse grass. Coal companies are stripping off the tops of mountains in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia. Tennessee has three inactive mines.
The U.S. is responsible for 22.3 percent of the world's coal-related carbon emissions.
Over 1000 miles of streams have been buried by strip mine waste in Appalachia.
In 1950, West Virginia employed 143,000 miners. By 1997, that number was down to 22,000.
75 percent of West Virginia's streams and rivers are polluted by mining and other industries.
300,000 acres of hardwood forest in West Virginia have been destroyed by mountaintop removal mining.