Study / Mountaintop Removal
Posted on January 31, 2008 | By Denny Tyler | 2 Comments
Earth Observatory Feature
When it comes to coal, perhaps the only thing more controversial than what to do about the heat-trapping carbon dioxide it generates is what to do about the social and environmental costs of getting it out of the ground. Nowhere is the debate over how far we are willing to go for inexpensive energy more contentious than in the coalfields of the Appalachian Mountains, where technology and engineering have allowed the scale of surface coal mines to reach gigantic proportions.
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The rolling, stream-creased mountains of the central and southern Appalachian Mountains are blanketed by forests that have some of the highest biodiversity outside the tropics. Hundreds of thousands of acres of these forests have been lost or degraded by mountaintop removal mining.
From earthobservatory.nasa.gov.
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation’s character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us. – Aldo Leopold
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February 1st, 2008 @ 10:42 am
thanks for posting these, denny. the magnitude of these sites is insane! i had never seen the nasa pics before.
February 1st, 2008 @ 12:23 pm
MTR is probably one of the best kept secrets… tells you something when organizations such as NASA talk negatively about MTR.