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Created: Feb 22, 2008
Updated: Oct 19, 2009
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Mountaintop Removal
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Mountaintop removal (MTR) is a type of coal mining where the vegetation and topsoil are removed from a mountaintop and dynamite is used to blast away eight hundred to a thousand feet of mountaintop to reach a seam of coal for mining. The large quantities of debris removed from the mountaintop are dumped into nearby valleys with significant impacts on the environment. |
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Mining, coal, flooding, landslides, clear-cutting, deforestation, dust, valley fill coal mining, pollution, water quality, tailings, subsidence, sediment, debris, sediment ponds, erosion, recontouring, land reclamation, resource extraction, mountaintop
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FEATURED ORGANIZATIONS
Mountain Justice MJ is to educate ourselves and our community on the effect the coal industry has on Appalachia and the world, particularly with regards to Mountain Top Removal. Meratus Alliance is an organisation formed from an alliance of people and organizations that share common objectives. RELATED PORTALS
Mining Minerals Law and Policy Mining and Refining Ores Mountaintop Removal Sustainable Minerals Industry |
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