While coal mining in Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia provides many jobs and opportunities to families, Mountain Top Removal is NOT necessary to retrieve the coal! MINING is the only acceptable form of removal, and even coal mining COMPANIES need to be held more responsible for the damages they cause! Their waste causes flooding in the valleys because the creeks are full of their garbage, left behind FOREVER!
Mountain Top Removal is destroying the beautiful Appalacian Mountains! They are scarred and forever changed because taking the top of the mountain is CHEAPER! They may minimally re-plant vegetation, but the MOUNTAINS ARE NEVER THE SAME! The PEOPLE living around these mines are NEVER THE SAME! THEIR HEALTH AND LIVES ARE SACRIFICED FOR COAL! WITH ABSOLUTELY NO REWARD! ONLY A PAYCHECK
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