It Is about Time 0
All it takes to recognize the wanton destructiveness of mountaintop removal mining is to fly over West Virginia once.
One cannot forget the scars in the landscape. The picture at the link is enough to convince anyone except, or course, a coal robber baron.
The EPA said it based its final decision to veto a previously granted permit for the Spruce No. 1 mine on the pollution that would have destroyed wildlife, polluted areas downstream and increased the water contamination risks for people who live in West Virginia’s already heavily mined Coal River basin. The streams the veto protects — Pigeonroost Branch and Oldhouse Branch — are two of the last “high-quality” streams in the watershed, the agency said.
