Mountaintop removal coal mining and the "clean coal" oxymoron Stop mountain top removal coal mining - Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition
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Mountaintop Removal Galleries
Photos of so-called reclamation
Galleries of Environmental Activism
The zen of flowers - after viewing photos of the ongoing mountaintop removal disaster, calm your nerves with the flower of the day
 


Be sure to view OVEC's other Mountaintop Removal Mining Galleries, especially the High Resolution Gallery

Miscellaneous Photos - Kayford Mountain
and White Oak Creek Valley Fill

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Joe Barnett of Artie, W.Va. lives below this White Oak Creek valley fill. During the July 2001 floods, the sediment pond below the valley fill filled with mud, and raging runoff waters dug a channel into the pond’s dam. During heavy rains in 1997, a boy and a woman on their way to church drowned in a similar flash flood from this valley fill.
Photo by Robert Gates (omni@ntelos.net) 

Valley fill on the headwaters of White Oak Creek, near Artie in Raleigh Co., W.Va. at a CC Coal Mountaintop Removal Mine, owned by AEI Resources, Inc.(Addington Brothers of Ky.)
Photo by Robert Gates (omni@ntelos.net) 

The view from Kayford Mountain, on the border of Boone and Kanawha Counties. Kayford is practically surrounded by mountaintop removal / valley fill operations. From this spot, you once looked UP to forested mountains and down into streams in lush coves.
Photo by Vivian Stockman

Another view from what is left of Kayford Mountain.
Photo by Vivian Stockman

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