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General Discussion => Science & Nature => Topic started by: sam on March 14, 2010, 20:36

Title: Time-Lapse: Mountaintop Mine Spreads Across Forest
Post by: sam on March 14, 2010, 20:36

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100311-mountaintop-mining-west-virginia/

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Surface mining may not move mountains. But a series of satellite views of a Boone County, West Virginia coal mine shows that the practice—also called mountaintop mining—can wipe out whole swaths of forests.

Title: Re: Time-Lapse: Mountaintop Mine Spreads Across Forest
Post by: Simon on March 14, 2010, 22:29

 :(

Title: Re: Time-Lapse: Mountaintop Mine Spreads Across Forest
Post by: Clive on March 14, 2010, 23:07

Good heavens.  I can't breathe!   :(

Title: Re: Time-Lapse: Mountaintop Mine Spreads Across Forest
Post by: sam on March 14, 2010, 23:25

hit yourself in the chest hard 3 times... if that doesn't work call 999.



... on a more serious note, awful isn't it!

Title: Re: Time-Lapse: Mountaintop Mine Spreads Across Forest
Post by: Clive on March 15, 2010, 08:56

We call it opencast mining and there were plans to do the same on a mountain near us.  Thankfully they did not come to fruition. 

Title: Re: Time-Lapse: Mountaintop Mine Spreads Across Forest
Post by: sam on March 15, 2010, 14:20

yeah, that would have been annoying.