Mountaintop Removal Mining Environment
Mountaintop Removal Mining Environment
Mountaintop Removal
Mountaintop removal is a strip-mining practice in which the top of a mountain is literally removed by blasting and draglines, and the material is placed in a nearby valley, in order to get access to the coal or other resources under the mountain.
This practice is increasingly common in the eastern United States coalfields.
Top: Science: Environment: Mining: Mountaintop Removal:
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- Information about mountain top mining and valley fill, and the environmental damage this practice is causing around the state and in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolina.
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- Archive of Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette articles on mountaintop removal, accompanied by text of US court rulings and a draft version of the never-published environmental impact statement on the practice.
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- About the environmental effects of this newly accepted technique in surface mining, which arose due to technological advances in heavy machinery.
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- Information about an Environmental Impact Statement on mountaintop mining being prepared by the US federal government and the state of West Virginia.
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- NY Times article outlines the issues surrounding this mining practice in the central Appalachians.
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