Mountaintop Removal

DID YOU KNOW

More explosives are used every week in the extraction of coal in Appalachia, than were used in the first gulf war, and the Afghanistan war combined?

Close to 2.8 billion gallons of toxic sludge, produced by cleaning coal before burning it, lies behind an earthen dam just a few hundred yards upstream of an elementary school in West Virginia?

Over 2000 miles of streams have been buried and 500 square miles of mountains supporting one of the worlds most bio diverse temperate forests have been destroyed by Mountain-Top Removal coal mining in West Virginia alone.

According to the West Virginia Coal Association, a little over 50 years ago, over 100,000 miners were employed in West Virginia, In 2003, that number was fewer than 15,000. Meanwhile, far more coal is being mined.

TO FIND OUT MORE, CHECK OUT


www.sludgesafety.org
www.appvoices.org
www.ohvec.org
www.crmw.net

www.mountainjusticesummer.org

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Mountaintop
• Removal
• MTR
• Coal
• Massey
• Valley
• Fill
• Slurrey
• Pollution
• Reclaim