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 Stories About: environmental justice AND mining AND West Virginia
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Mountaintop removal mining: Lonely opposition
The Branhams' mining permit protests |
Grist |
23 Aug 2007 |
Gristmill |
| ((mtr_include))This week, Gabriel Pacyniak and Katherine Chandler are traveling throughout southern West Virginia to report on mountaintop removal mining (MTR). They'll be visiting coalfields with abandoned and "reclaimed" MTR mines, and talking with residents, activists, miners, mine company officials, local reporters, and politicians. We'll publish their reports throughout the week. ----- Driving to the north end of Mingo County, W.Va., we get lost a ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, mining, West Virginia (all these topics) |
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Moving Mountains
Mountaintop-removal mining is devastating Appalachia, but residents are fighting back |
Erik Reece |
16 Feb 2006 |
Main Dish |
| This article was originally published in Orion Magazine. Not since the glaciers pushed toward these ridgelines a million years ago have the Appalachian Mountains been as threatened as they are today. But the coal-extraction process decimating this landscape, known as mountaintop removal, has generated little press beyond the region. A mountaintop no more. Photo: Viv ... |
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| Topics: Appalachia, coal, energy, environmental justice, health, Kentucky, mining, Poverty and the Environment, Virginia, West Virginia (all these topics) |
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We Live It Every Day
The faces and voices of West Virginians battered by mountaintop removal |
Antrim Caskey |
16 Feb 2006 |
Main Dish |
| These photographs were originally published in Orion Magazine. In May 2005, photographer Antrim Caskey encountered Maria Gunnoe in Manhattan. Gunnoe had come to protest the practice of mountaintop-removal mining at a Massey Energy shareholders meeting. Two days later, Caskey left for the Cumberland Plateau, where she made these images. "People are scared," Caskey sa ... |
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| Topics: environmental justice, mining, Poverty and the Environment, West Virginia (all these topics) |
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