on Jan 17th, 2007
The Environmental Rape of the Appalachian Mountains
Reading George Monbiot’s latest book, ‘Heat’, he talk about energy options. When referring to coal and nuclear, he says that given the choice between the ‘mountain top removal’ that’s taking place in the Appalachian’s for coal and nuclear, I’d go nuclear. This is not what I thought he’d say, so I looked into what’s happening in the Appalachian mountains in a little more detail.
So far, over 450 mountains have been removed. Yes, removed. They blow them up bit by bit and dump all the debris into the valleys where the coal is extracted from the rock. The toxic slurry left behind causes massive environmental problems in itself, whilst the rock debris causes river flows to change.
This is shocking environmental rape on a scale I have never seen before. Take a few minutes to watch the video for more details.
More information can be obtained at http://ilovemountains.org/
Having viewed these videos, it is hard to believe such vast environmental vandalism has been allowed and kept so secret. This type of exposure is only possible due to the world wide web, let us just hope that it can stop these rich and powerful companies in time.