Mountain Top Mining

They're ripping the tops off mountains in West Virginia coal country to feed our insatiable appetite for power. It's cheaper that way. And the trees and the animals and the flooding? It may not be pretty, but we've got all those dishwashers to run

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• coal
• climate
• change
• mining
• carbon
• power
• generation
• electricity

[steveorama1978]

well, i hope the government will rehouse us and send us more jobs after they do away will all the coal mining because our communities here will definitely crumble, coal built these small towns all over this place....people don't realize that coal jobs are the ONLY good paying ones in the appalachian mountain region

[reinerg100]

@clayr6

keep fucking up the country

the us is the biggest waste society

[clayr6]

oh give me a break! its a way of life for most and thats reality, you better get used to it!

[roger25865]

yes thank you almighty savior messiah obama for seeing 42 of the 48 MTR permits passed this day 5-15-09 praise almighty obama...pathetic

[lumoto]

Thank you!

Sen Barack Obama voted against MTR and is said to have said:

"We have to find more environmentally sound ways of mining coal than simply blowing the tops off mountains."

Sen Hillary Clinton voted for MTR and is reported to have said:

"Maybe there's a way to recover those mountaintops..."