Comments on: Help Save Coal River Mountain This Monday http://ilovemountains.org/news/634 END MOUNTAINTOP REMOVAL COAL MINING IN APPALACHIA! Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:36:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.18 By: Mirna http://ilovemountains.org/news/634#comment-61036 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:36:23 +0000 http://ilovemountains.org/all/634#comment-61036 Mining has so many afterwards consequences. Why decision-makers can’t see that it isn’t worth the sacrifice of people and the environment to benefit just a few?
We still don’t know how to restore a mountain or even less how to create one. The price of restoring the land is high and takes a lot of time. Most of the times, it is not possible to bring back all the species and character and function to the environment.
Water remains polluted and the soil bare or depleted many years after the big company has left with its profits.
We need more investment in science and technology to learn how to harvest resources in a safe way. But meanwhile, we can evaluate pros and cons-taking into account the future will not be living. If we think in those terms, and if we think of all the peoples and creatures having the right to the same clean water, air, and aesthetics we seek for us, then we would certainly take better decisions.

-Ecologist, soil scientist, and environmental thinker here.

]]> By: Pamela Hall http://ilovemountains.org/news/634#comment-59855 Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:26:21 +0000 http://ilovemountains.org/all/634#comment-59855 Although we cannot make the trip form Georgia, my sons and I are with you marching for the future of our land and citizens in spirit. We will voice our protest by e-mailing the WV DEP, sending postcards, and passing the word to our friends. Thank you all for your perseverance, passion, and moral backbone.

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