Apr 11 2009
EPA has Objected to 5 Mountaintop Removal Mining Projects
Mountaintop removal has destroyed over 500,000 acres of land and buried 2,000 miles of streams over the years. Due to recent protests and many campaigns, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has objected a total of 5 mountaintop removal mining permits that the federal Army Corps of Engineers were prepared to dole out!
The mines that have been objected to are A&G Coal Corps Ison Rock Ridge Surface Mine in Wise County, Virginia, Massey Energy’s Republic No. 1 Surface Mine in Kanawha County, West Virginia, Frasure Creek Mining’s Spring Fork No. 2 Mine in Mingo County West Virginia, Patriot Coal Co. in Lexington, Kentucky and Rhino Resources in eastern Kentucky!
According to Care2 , over 100,000 of you took action to putting an end to these horrendous mining projects! This is not over and we have not won, but we are definitely taking steps in the right direction. To all of you that have taken action, I say…thank you, to any of you that would like to take action, please visit the Stop Mountain Removal website and see if there’s anything there that strikes an interest.
~Wind
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Maybe it’s just my ignorance, but it boggles my mind that companies are still trying to destroy our natural resources/habitats for fossil fuels! Have they not read the headlines that we’re supposed to be moving in a cleaner/greener direction??
I think it’s because humans are so resistant to change…