Wonder
05-12-2007, 23:45
I try not to bring politics into the trail world, but this is something that affects us all. Please go to this site and register....this little action on your part WILL help. http://www.ilovemountains.org/take_action/campaigns/mountains/register/ ea7177c9d623c70c434a8817a769c3e9/ (http://www.ilovemountains.org/take_action/campaigns/mountains/register/ea7177c9d623c70c434a8817a769c3e9/)
The below was written my a friend of mine:
THIS IS A REPOST FOR "WONDER," but I want to ad my 2 cents:
The "clean coal" that liars such as General Electric are trying to get you to believe in tends to come from mountains that have been blown up with dynamite and pushed into the valley next to where they used to stand. Where is this happening? All through the hilly portions of the Eastern US (at least – read more at the site listed in the original message, below). What does this do? Pollutes the groundwater and the stream that is usually at the bottom of the valley; doesn't just destroy, but eliminates the local ecosystem leaving behind an acidic moonscape; employs nobody locally and then eliminates any local economy that may have been there for the original inhabitants. Even though the coal companies are required by law to leave the land "improved" (their word), the one, single building they ever tried to built on this ruined rubble was a Wal-Mart that sunk immediately, and is off-limits to the public. Some improvement over a wooded mountain with a stream at its base.
The below was written my a friend of mine:
THIS IS A REPOST FOR "WONDER," but I want to ad my 2 cents:
The "clean coal" that liars such as General Electric are trying to get you to believe in tends to come from mountains that have been blown up with dynamite and pushed into the valley next to where they used to stand. Where is this happening? All through the hilly portions of the Eastern US (at least – read more at the site listed in the original message, below). What does this do? Pollutes the groundwater and the stream that is usually at the bottom of the valley; doesn't just destroy, but eliminates the local ecosystem leaving behind an acidic moonscape; employs nobody locally and then eliminates any local economy that may have been there for the original inhabitants. Even though the coal companies are required by law to leave the land "improved" (their word), the one, single building they ever tried to built on this ruined rubble was a Wal-Mart that sunk immediately, and is off-limits to the public. Some improvement over a wooded mountain with a stream at its base.