Sentences with phrase «over mountaintop removal coal mining»
Six days into 2010 and the battle over mountaintop removal coal mining is set to start up again.
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Appalachian Voices, an environmental group, estimates that coal companies have buried over 2,000 miles of streams in the region through mountaintop removal mining since the 1990s.
By now, 500 mountains have been blown up and over 2,000 miles of streams have been buried as a result of mountaintop removal (MTR) coal mining.
Since mountaintop removal coal mining began in 1970, an estimated 1.5 million acres of hardwood forest have been lost, over 470 mountaintops have been permanently destroyed, and 1,200 miles of streams have been buried.
Over the past several months, I completely two relevant fact - finding trips: one to West Virginia to get a firsthand look at surface mining for coal, aka mountaintop removal, and the other to Pennsylvania to get a sense of the impacts of natural gas drilling.
«Deep Down»: A community battle over proposed mountaintop removal coal mining (November 23, 2010)(The film «Deep Down» may be streamed from Netflix.)
Check out how mountaintop removal coal mining has destroyed over one - half million acres of forest habitat, AND has buried over 2,000 miles of headwater streams.
Complaints focus on the environmental impacts of mountaintop removal mining, the projected high costs of carbon capture and storage, the human health dangers of large, rapid releases of carbon dioxide, the global warming risk posed by small levels leakage over long periods, increases in coal mining needed to run scrubbers as well as carbon capture and storage systems.
The rally then moved over to the front of the White House for chanting, and then on to deliver petition signatures calling for an end to mountaintop removal coal mining.
In the heart of Appalachia, where the coal industry wields enormous power over government and public opinion, lifelong resident Maria Gunnoe fights against environmentally - devastating mountaintop removal mining and valley fill operations.
In the heart of Appalachia, where the coal industry wields enormous power over government and public opinion, lifelong resident and 2009 Goldman Prize winner Maria Gunnoe fights against environmentally - devastating mountaintop removal mining and valley fill operations.