Reclamation FAIL!!
Posted on May 17, 2010 | By Denny Tyler | 1 Comment
I have quite a few opinions about reclaiming or reclaimed mountaintop removal sites. Before I even really knew anything about mountaintop removal, besides the fact they were blowing up the mountains, I had a big problem with what was passing for reclamation.
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First of all I’m just gonna say this and get it off my chest… for man to be so arrogant as to say he can blow up a mountain and put it back to better than what nature and time intended… I’d have to tell him a variation of something my mom always told me, “your actions are writing checks to big for your soul to cash.” There is absolutely know way to restore a mountaintop removal site to better than it was before the mining.
Reclamation as it relates to mountaintop removal is not so much about reclamation as it is justification. We need flat land in the Mountain State.
Let me see if I can put the whole flat land/future economic development thing into perspective for you – the coal industry and all of the politicians who justify mountaintop removal with the flat land/future economic development excuse… they are the house and you are in a loaded craps game. They never have to pay you. All they have to do is convince you to keep playing along by saying maybe someday you’ll win while at the same time trying to gloss over the fact that until then you’ll lose (future economic development). Personally, I think we should just quit playing and kick the houses ass for perpetrating such a scam.
Roughly 1.2 million acres, including 500 mountains, have been flattened by mountaintop removal coal mining in the central Appalachian region. Only a fraction of that land has been reclaimed for so-called beneficial economic uses.
These are the conclusions of two new studies from Appalachian Voices and the Natural Resources Defense Council that combine to debunk one of Big Coal’s biggest lies.
Visit Ilovemountains.org for photos, maps… two new studies, lots of info on Reclamation FAIL!
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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December 7th, 2010 @ 2:17 am
Not only does this land not look the same as it did before, but the old ecosystem along with it is entirely demolished. Trees that evolved to grow on that slanted land can no longer grow there. Normal feeding grounds for animals are obliterated along with their homes and for some it will be to difficult to adapt. Not to mention all of the fresh water supplies that they supposedly rebuild, but they really completely destroy. There are far to many harms that MTR does to the environment to even count. For them to say that they can in anyway revert the mountain back to it’s old state is pure ignorance.