Mountaintop removal mining

known as mountaintop removal mining has plagued areas of the eastern United States, mainly including the state of West Virginia. Throughout its increasing stages of implementation, mountaintop removal mining has caused numerous hampering effects, including causing serious harm to nearby residents, and polluting a once-pure environment. Because of this, mountaintop removal mining needs to be limited in order to preserve the natural state of the Appalachian Mountains. Mountaintop removal mining has been

saddening. Mountaintop mining is horrible because it destroys ecosystems and damages biodiversity over an extreme scale. Animals are getting hurt during the process.Debris pollutes water and animals that drink it or live in it die. This happens due to the large companies dumping rock off in a random area where it “won’t get in the way” still it has major consequences such as murdering innocent creatures. For example the article “Leveling Appalachia: The Legacy of Mountaintop Removal Mining” states

God Was Wrong, Support Mountaintop Removal Coal in the United States has long been the #1 producer of energy. Massive seams of coal are found in the Appalachian Mountains, and our reliance on this fossil fuel has meant devastation for many mountain residents and over 500 mountains. As our society advances, the need for more energy advances. What were once beautiful rolling hills are now flattened plateaus reminiscent of a landscape you would see in the desert. We as a nation have only short-term

highly dependent on mining, forestry, agriculture, chemical industries, and heavy industry, among which coal mining appears to be the largest financial contributor to the economy (Appalachia's Economy). However, the mining practice used to extract coal in Appalachia called

Concerning Mountain Top Removal Mining There is an ongoing battle over the everlasting debate of mountain top removal mining. With every object at the center of a controversy there are bound to be many arguments by all sides. Most arguments are biased and others lack efficient sources or credibility to obtain a reasonable conclusion. This paper will dissect all angles of the meaningful arguments and help develop a conclusion on the aspects of mountain top removal mining and its effects to its

Carrie Southern 11/21/15 Professor Rio Pathfinder Project My project topic is mountaintop removal. I hope to find the average amount of removal that has been done recently and to see if the people that are doing the work is concerned with what is happening. I hope to learn if many other people are realizing that this operation is occurring. I choose this topic because I thought it was interesting that the world is doing this to the earth and it is hurting it. I also choose this topic because I figured

Mining into Destruction Amanda Poltorak Hopkinsville Community College   Mining into Devastation Introduction Mining affects the lives of millions of Americans every day. Although the United States has a large amount of coal remaining to be mined and burned, almost three-fourths of the public land in America has been declared off-limits for mining. Mountaintop mining is a relatively new form of surface mining that has steadily gained popularity. The debate as to whether or not this process is

Mountaintop Removal: Critical fuel source or environmental antagonists? Mountaintop Removal mining is a very controversial environmental issue with many pros and cons on both sides of the argument. I have found three different articles with three contrasting views in the sense that they are from different geographic regions. The three articles are from the St. Petersburg Times, The Washington Times, and The Guardian, which are located in Florida, Maryland, and London, respectively. Despite the

produce power. The removal of coal for energy has been a long thought out process since the early 1960’s (Holzman). The removal of coal up until around the 1990’s was all done underground, removing the coal by using pick axes, mules, and rail cars. During the early and late 1990’s, the extraction of coal was modernized to mountain top removal (Holzman). Mountain top removal is the process of blasting the top of a mountain away to retrieve coal from inside the

Introduction Mining affects the lives of millions of Americans every day. Although the United States has a large amount of coal remaining to be mined and burned, almost three-fourths of the public land in America has been declared off-limits for mining. Mountaintop mining is a relatively new form of surface mining that has steadily gained popularity. The debate as to whether or not this process is an economic necessity or environmental disaster for Kentuckians is the question. Undoubtedly, it