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. Photo courtesy Vivian Stockman / www.ohvec.org. Also if aerial image courtesy SouthWings.org
This photograph was uploaded February 10th 2009 by carnkie.Copyright / re-use statement: ©Vivian Stockman used with permission not for re-use
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