End Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in Virginia

Mountaintop removal coal mining is destroying our mountains and streams, but Virginia residents have an opportunity to stop it this year.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• mountaintop removal
• coal mining
• virginia legislation
• SB 564
• Wise Energy
• Sierra Club

[Magnuspictor79]

@CAT5230EXCAVATOR

Also, read my posts before you make stupid comments. Just because you claim God put something somewhere, doesn't mean he intended on us messing with it. I'm sorry I can't make it any simpler for you. Anyways, believe what you want, but there is only one truth. I won't reply anymore to your immature misinformed silly comments. I just ask that you actually do some research on the topic and you will see what surface mining is doing to our great land and its people.

[Magnuspictor79]

@CAT5230EXCAVATOR

They plant fescue grass and honey locust trees, because it's cheap and about the only thing that will grow back on a strip job. I know because I live right beside a reclaimed strip job and there's plenty more around this area. It looks like crap and it isn't close to being what was originally there. Basically, they reclaim these sites to look like a half-ass prairie with sediment ponds. Don't talk to me about stuff you barely understand. I live in the middle of these messes.

[Magnuspictor79]

@CAT5230EXCAVATOR

Also, please learn to spell. I know you're just a kid, but a well thought out sentence with no spelling mistakes really helps when you're trying to make a credible point. Also, you may want to research the subject you're arguing, before you make bold shallow statements that really offer no constructive input at all.

[Magnuspictor79]

@CAT5230EXCAVATOR

He didn't put it there. It is the result of long dead animals and plants and he didn't intend for us to destroy his entire creation to get at it. God also put the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden of Eden, but we didn't handle that situation too well either, did we? Read the bible kid. We are meant to be good stewards of his creation, not reckless greedy heathens that destroy our own selves and the land we live on for the sake of progress.

[Magnuspictor79]

@CAT5230EXCAVATOR

and it has already had to have parts of the roof replaced several times due to its location and stronger than average winds. God didn't intend for people to build on top of mountains, plain and simple. Reclamation is a joke as well, because nothing will grow back on these sites because of the toxicity of the soil, except for fescue grass and honey locust. Nowhere near the dense hardwood forests that were originally on these sites. These mountains are our legacy, not coal.

[Magnuspictor79]

@CAT5230EXCAVATOR

We can't tear the whole damn world up trying to get the last piece of coal, it just isn't smart. You may argue that the land created by mtr is more usable, but most of these surface mining sites are up the head of a holler. No business is going to build in the middle of nowhere. Plus, the land that is created from the fill process is unstable and susceptible to high winds and flooding. An example is the SYKES building in Vansant, VA. I worked for the company that built it...

[Magnuspictor79]

@CAT5230EXCAVATOR

This isn't real coal mining. My father, grandfather, and great grandfather were underground miners, but they had respect for the land. You have to have clean water, clean air, and trees to live. "Tree huggers" as your kind like to put it, aren't trying to save every tree in the world. They just want to create a way of life that allows for the sustainable use of natural resources. Coal, whether you want to admit it or not, is nonrenewable, and one day it will all be gone.

[GreenMoonArt]

Most Virginians have not even heard of mountaintop removal. Thank you for helping to get the word out.