Bowing to pressure from Quaker environmentalists, PNC Bank announced yesterday that it will be restricting financing of mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia.
Mountaintop removal mining (MTR) is a form of surface mining increasingly being used to replace underground mining to extract coal from the Appalachian Mountain ...
Underground mining is what we traditionally think of when we think of "coal mining". Miners dig tunnels down into the earth to find coal seams.
Mountaintop removal mining is the practice of blasting off the tops of mountains so machines called draglines can mine coal deposits. Coal mining companies dump the ...
Appalachia, a region of extraordinary beauty and natural diversity, is under attack. Mountaintop removal is strip mining on steroids—a radically destructive form of ...
From the road, West Virginia's mountains look as pristine as ever, but from above, the landscape resembles more of a moonscape. From even higher up in ...
Mountaintop coal mining is a surface mining practice involving the removal of mountaintops to expose coal seams, and disposing of the associated mining overburden …
iLoveMountains.org is the product of 14 local, state, and regional organizations across Appalachia that are working together to end mountaintop removal coal mining ...
Mountaintop-removal and valley-fill coal mining at Massey Energy's Edwight site in Sundial, W.Va., on April 16, 2009. Photo by Antrim Caskey.
A. Abutment - In coal mining, (1) the weight of the rocks above a narrow roadway is transferred to the solid coal along the sides, which act as abutments of the arch ...
In the tradition of earlier books (Clearcut, Fatal Harvest, Thrillcraft) that used powerful imagery, compelling writing, and a large-format design to illuminate ...
No More Money for Mountaintop Removal? NRDC and other mountain defenders are putting the heat on banks to stop financing mountaintop removal. So far, six banks …
Mountaintop removal mining, a particularly destructive form of surface mining which involves literally blasting away the tops of mountains to get at the coal reserves ...
The risk of another backlash of the type unleashed against coal seam gas is on the cards. The Herald's Peter Hannam revealed last Saturday the potential scale of the ...
Mountaintop removal is a relatively new type of coal mining that began in Appalachia in the 1970s as an extension of conventional strip mining techniques.
Mountaintop removal coal mining is a destructive form of extracting coal in which coal companies, using heavy explosives, blast off hundreds of feet of an ancient ...
The People's Foot movement is coming down in Charleston, West Virginia, with a clear message: March 16 is declared "No More Mountaintop Removal Permits Day."
The goal of coal mining is to obtain coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content, and, since the 1880s, has been widely used to generate electricity ...
Mountaintop removal mining (MTR), also known as mountaintop mining (MTM), is a form of surface mining that involves the mining of the summit or summit ridge of a ...
Although it is a rock rather than a mineral (the building blocks of rocks), coal is often considered to be a mineral resource. Coal has been mined since ancient Roman ...
Methods of Mining. kentucky geological survey ... According to the Kentucky Department of Mines and Minerals, 131.8 million tons of coal was mined in Kentucky in 2000 ...
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