Changing Habitats!
Matthew Burns © March 21, 2008
The effects of mountaintop removal on the environment have brought about many changes to the landscape and to the various habitats in the areas where this practice takes place. There are many aspects of these changing habitats that run the gamut from forest fragmentation to complete and total obliteration [...]
Matthew Burns ©March 2008
With all the hub-bub being touted by Walker Cat Machinery that “Life Is Thriving on Mountain Top Mines”, I thought everyone might find the following of interest.
One of the most unique game animals in West Virginia is the wild boar (Sus scrofa). It occurred only in the southernmost portions of the [...]
What is the one thing I could do to convince you coal is good for America’s future? The answer - convince you that we can clean it. Convince you we can remove the carbon.
The friends of coal’s propaganda machine rides heavily on the back of “clean” coal technology that has not been proven in power [...]
In the battle against mountaintop removal coal mining, sometimes the fight has to be taken outside the coalfield boundaries. Although the destructive practice of mountaintop removal occurs in the Appalachia’s, the coal from MTR coal mining is used across the country. In order for us to support stopping mountaintop removal coal mining we must directly [...]
This post copied in part from the BackWoods Drifter blog.
—Bringing Down the Mountains:The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities, 1970-2004
by Shirley L. Stewart Burns
Dissertation submitted to the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of [...]
On Thursday, March 13, 2008, the people of West Virginia were graced with some news that proved to be music to our ears. Stephanie Timmermeyer, the Chief of the West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection, resigned. Why was she so despised, especially by the residents of the coalfields? Because she was a [...]
Going back to yesterdays post - I wrote about feeling restricted because of a label - environmental extremist. I don’t know that I was consciously aware I was restricting myself until I wrote it in the last post. Since then I’ve been thinking about it more and more and have come to a conclusion - [...]
I have touched on this subject previously on the BackWoods Drifter blog. There are so many aspects of mountaintop removal coal mining that is it tough to focus on any particular one for any length of time.
Writing a blog and trying to make the reader aware of MTR makes one feel the need to discuss [...]
In a few places on the internet and in relation to coal mining you will find people talking about the destruction of our headwaters. When I say our headwaters I don’t mean West Virginia’s, I mean everybody east of the Mississippi all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico.
We may supply coal to a [...]
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