The Dominion - Vivian Stockman

MTRArial

Moira Peters — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:18:11 +0000

West Virgina has a long history of coal mining, including the largest labour insurrection in American history in 1921. Today, descendants of the Battle of Blair Mountain face different challenges: a coal industry that blows the tops off mountains and buries their homes in the rubble.

MTRCrane

Moira Peters — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:48:51 +0000

A dragline is a towering crane-like machine atop a base the size of a nine-storey hotel which shoves millions of tons of debris over the sides of mountains into the valleys and streams below. The goal is to reach the seam of coal below the mountaintops in Appalachia.

Moutaintop Coal Removal

hillarybain — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:36:57 +0000

Eight hundred thousand acres of land have been destroyed by mountaintop coal removal in Appalachia, and hundreds of thousands more are slated for the same process.