She was on public radio in WV and let us know how she felt about mountaintopping. As evidenced from the articles linked, mountaintopping is about the most destructive way ever to acquire coal.
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/3/19/16232/9817
http://solveclimate.com/blog/20080319/hillary-clinton-flunks-coal-west-virginia-public-radio
Big Coal is making huge inroads into the campaigning, advocating CLEAN COAL, there is no such thing as clean coal.
Obama is not immune either:
http://solveclimate.com/blog/20080320/obama-talks-clean-coal-west-virginia-too
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hmmmm......can't remember
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I remember writing a story when I was a child about strip mining, and how ugly it was. I saw a story on t.v. last week on mountaintopping and couldn't believe that we have come up with something even worse...
I remember writing a story when I was a child about strip mining, and how ugly it was. I saw a story on t.v. last week on mountaintopping and couldn't believe that we have come up with something even worse...
margarita brocolia
This song immediately pops into my head when I hear of strip mining: 
Paradise
?John Prine
When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn.
Chorus:
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.
Repeat Chorus:
Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.
Repeat Chorus:
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am.
When we lived in Eastern KY, the coal boom was over so we didn't experience the dust and dirt as many locals could describe. My husband's job was managing a Plant Material Center for the USDA in which they researched plants that could be used to lessen erosion and improve the soil on the mined areas of these hilltops, and also plants for stream bank stabilization.
These mined areas were abandoned and left an absolute mess! ..
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Paradise
?John Prine
When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn.
Chorus:
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away
Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.
Repeat Chorus:
Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.
Repeat Chorus:
When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am.
When we lived in Eastern KY, the coal boom was over so we didn't experience the dust and dirt as many locals could describe. My husband's job was managing a Plant Material Center for the USDA in which they researched plants that could be used to lessen erosion and improve the soil on the mined areas of these hilltops, and also plants for stream bank stabilization.
These mined areas were abandoned and left an absolute mess! ..
.
.
Beach Fanatic
Oil, Coal, Nuclear.......Are any one or any combination of them the real answer. Every one of them has big costs and big drawbacks. No candidate will have the right answer for this one because there is no truly viable answer yet. Or, am I missing something. Good reading just the same
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