A Parting Gift For the Coal Industry

[edward]

The other black gold. Could we screw up the environment any worse than this? Strip mines are bad enough, but surface mining on hillsides and hilltops is not compatible with land reclamation.

WASHINGTON: The Bush administration is set to issue a regulation on Friday that would extend the coal mining practice of mountaintop removal. The technique involves blasting off the tops of mountains and dumping the rubble into valleys and streams.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/23/europe/coal.php

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/08/24/surface.mining.ap/index.html

 

[mgb_phys]

Presumably he can only order this in America, for once the rest of the world is safe.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Don't we already have the worlds largest coal reserves? Guess it keeps the railroad industry strong.