I know the subject has been discussed before but always worth another look. A quote:

Author Harry Caudill described strip mining reclamation efforts as akin to putting lipstick on a corpse. And that was before mountaintop removal / valley fill coal mining.

Find the huge Dragline.
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Unable to bear the house-shaking noise and dust from blasting and the psychological toll from the destruction of their beloved forests and streams, the husband and wife who own this Lincoln County, W.Va. home have very reluctantly sold their property to Arch Coal, operator of the Hobet 21 mountaintop removal coal mine. The husband used to teach school for a small community up a miles-long valley that was nearby. The people were driven out of their community as the surface mine approached. That valley is now buried under hundreds of millions of tons of former mountain top.

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All this to produce about 5 per cent of US electricity. Las Vegas nust be burning bright! Perhaps they should have their own small nuclear power station.

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