http://ilovemountains.org/news/3693 END MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL COAL MINING IN APPALACHIA! Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:48:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.18 http://ilovemountains.org/news/3693#comment-803292 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:48:22 +0000 http://ilovemountains.org/?p=3693#comment-803292 I think that mountaintop removal is bad for many different reasons. It pollutes valleys and streams. It doesn’t allow us to grow any crops in that area because there is no top soil. I’m not trying to say that we should get rid of coal mining I just think that we can mine in efficient ways. Coal is one of the United states biggest exports if we got rid of coal mining our economy would plummet down. With mountaintop removal we are not just contaminating our selves we are contaminating the fish plants and animals.

]]> http://ilovemountains.org/news/3693#comment-793255 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:05:04 +0000 http://ilovemountains.org/?p=3693#comment-793255 By mining like that they take the top of the mountain and they blow it up and dump right off the edge into the valleys and streams. I’m not saying that we should get rid of coal mining, that would be the last thing I want to do because, West Virginia’s economy is almost fully based on coal mining. I see why they are doing mountaintop removal, because it is the cheapest and shortest way to mine for coal mountain and down in those valleys are streams that are full of trout. They are harming many plants and animals by contaminating the water. Any animal that walks down to the stream and drinks the water is more than likely going to get sick and possibly die from the water. All the fish in that water are going to be contaminated. It can even contaminate us humans. We can be contaminated by drinking the water or eating the fish and animals that drink and swim in the water.

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