Voices from the Mountains
         The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Mining

            A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNAL



~ Some of those green rolling hills of West Virginia don't look so green anymore ~

A Mountain Being Torn Down

In southern West Virginia, mining for coal has taken on a whole new meaning.
Mountains which have existed for thousands of years are vanishing forever.
The entire tops of some mountains are being sheared off
to allow easy access to the COAL seams within.


Valley Fills Bury Streams
Valley Fills		 Blasting Away the Mountains
Blasting		 Coal Waste Dams
Impoundments



Kayford Mountain Cemetery
Sacred Ground		 Restoring the Original Countour
Reclamation		 Coal Is King in WV
Coal Facts



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