I am not even really sure if you can call it mining. It is literally blowing the tops off of mountains and then extracting from it.

Mountain Top Removal Mining @ Wikipedia

I had never really heard of this until I happened to be browsing around in Google Earth. This is truly amazing destruction. It is also amazing that it is happening so close to here and that I have never heard a single thing about it. You would think that it would be on the news at least once. Actually, it seems like it would be news a lot.

This video shows a lot of what is going on and if you ignore the Christian’s “Against God” and the tendency to get a little “Mother Earthy” it is seriously disturbing how much damage they are doing to this area.


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