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High Resolution Mountaintop Removal Pictures
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Mountaintop removal coal mine in southern
WV encroaching on a small community.
Photo by Vivian Stockman |
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A massive dragline, dwarfed by the huge scale of the operation, at
work
on a mountaintop removal operation near Kayford Mountain, W.Va
Photo by Vivian Stockman, Oct. 19, 2003
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Unable to bear the house-shaking noise and dust from blasting and the
psychological toll from the destruction of their beloved forests and streams,
the husband and wife who own this Lincoln County, W.Va. home have very
reluctantly sold their property to Arch Coal, operator of the Hobet 21 mountaintop
removal coal mine. The husband used to teach school for a small community up
a miles-long valley that was nearby. The people were driven out of their community
as the surface mine approached. That valley is now buried under hundreds of
millions of tons of former mountain top.
Photo by Vivian Stockman, Oct. 19, 2003
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Trees are felled in preparation for blasting and draglines at an
expanding mountaintop removal site in Lincoln County, West Virginia.
Photo by Vivian Stockman, Oct 19, 2003.
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Marfork Coal's (a Massey Energy subsidiary) Brushy Fork coal slurry
impoundment, which, at its final stage, will hold 8 billion gallons
of coal waste sludge. The impoundment partially lies over old underground
mines and is directly upstream from the town of Whitesville, WV.
Photo by Vivian Stockman, May 30, 2003
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Marfork Coal Co.'s (Massey Energy) massive Brushy Fork impoundment
near Whitesville, WV, is designed to hold 5 BILLION gallons of
sludge.
Photo by Vivian Stockman, Oct 19, 2003.
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Mountaintop removal/valley fill coal
mining in southern West Virginia
in May 2003
Photo by Vivian Stockman, May 30, 2003
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The towering dragline, center, is dwarfed by
the size of the mountaintop removal operation.
Photo by Vivian Stockman, May 30, 2003
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Mountaintop removal/valley fill coal
mining in southern West Virginia
in May 2003
Photo by Vivian Stockman, May 30, 2003
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Mountaintop removal/valley fill coal mining in southern West Virginia
in May 2003
Photo by Vivian Stockman, May 30, 2003
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Independence Coal (a Massey Energy subsidiary) operates the
Upper Big Branch surface mine (permit # S-3019-99), where
this massive valley fill looms over the devastated landscape
The valley fill is locally known as the Birchton Curve Valley Fill.
Photo by Vivian Stockman, May 30, 2003.
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Another view of the Birchton Curve Valley Fill.
Photo by Vivian Stockman, May 30, 2003.
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Yet another view of the Birchton Curve Valley Fill.
Photo by Vivian Stockman, Oct 19, 2003.
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Mountaintop removal, up close and personal in Southern West
Virginia.
Photo by Vivian Stockman, April 23, 2005
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