Mountaintop removal and other destructors

Ok, ya'll are gonna KNOW I'm nuts this time. But I can't help noticing things other folks don't.

So, I'm looking around and I see mountaintop removal is a REALLY HORRID THING. If something like that happened as a NATURAL DISASTER instead of a man made one, people would be getting evacuated and FEMA would be called in.........

And the "goon squad", those WV "miners" who get drunk and yell obscenities and threats at "treehuggers" are obviously NOT being reassured by the coal bosses that they will be OK if mountaintop removal goes belly-up. Probably just the opposite.

But, while driving the WV roads, and living on a WV DIRT road, I see something nobody is talking about that, when taken as a WHOLE, is probably a lot more destructive than mountaintop removal.

Mountaintop removal is localized in certain areas and what I am seeing is ALL OVER THE STATE.

The DOH is the culprit.

They have a knack for doing just the wrong things, like "grading" (scraping the top layer off the road and into the ditch while grading the road so the water runs into your yard...)
And they usually do it right before it rains. Steep hills plus tons of loose dirt plus rain runoff equals ungodly amounts of SILT into the waterways. We get a lot of flooding. More so all the time. Whole sections of some towns are having to be bought by the state because of all the flooding... And the flooding messes up the roads, and they come back and do more grading.... But nobody takes responsibility for keeping the rivers and creeks cleaned out.

Now, that is DIRT roads, of which there are many. Along the PAVED roads, they are SPRAYING HERBICIDES. Miles and miles and miles of chemical poisons sprayed directly onto road banks above drainage ditches, which ultimately run into the creeks and rivers. I guess they figure it's more "cost effective" than actually having to HIRE people to cut brush.

So, what's happening is a destruction that, unlike the in-your-face mountaintop removal, is slowly and quietly engulfing the entire state. No wonder Forbes Magazine says WV is the nation's most polluted.

Perhaps in the next 50 years WV will become uninhabitable...

 

It's not being nuts. I'd be worried too.

I live in a place where nuclear waste gets dumped 100 miles away, and the rest of the states don't care, as long as it doesn't travel through their land. If there's an accident, it's everyone's problem, not just Nevada's.

As for mountaintop removal? Seriously, I don't even understand what this country is thinking anymore. If I have children, I worry what the world will be like for them when they get older.

 

www.ilovemountains.org

www.mountainjustice.org

www.mountainaction.org

 

It is a crime against humanity, eco-terroism, our state has places that look as wasted as the surface of the moon..... All in the name of corperate greed..And there is no such thing as clean coal, a ruse and misinformation fomented by the greed masters by people like Dom Blankenshit and massey scab mining co....I am a friend of the Mountains!.....

 

Please do what you can to educate about MTR go to the sites and write those letters to your elected officials and send what ever funds you can to those people, many of which do not have even clean drinking water anymore.

 

Mountaintop removal? Is that just what it sounds like? If so. . . what the hell purpose does that serve?

Sorry for being ignorant on this topic. . . I wandered into this thread and now am confused and curious.

 

It's generally a much cheaper way of coal mining then the traditional underground method.