Here’s a stunning look at the impact of mountaintop-removal mining on a section of southern West Virginia:

Mountaintop-removal mining contaminated up to 22% of streams in southern West Va. | Grist

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Here’s a stunning look at the impact of mountaintop-removal mining on a section of southern West Virginia:

Decades of mountaintop-removal mining may have harmed aquatic life along more than 1,700 miles of streams in southern West Virginia, according to new research. Mining companies have converted 5% of the region to mountaintop mines. The resulting water pollution has caused so many sensitive species to vanish that 22% of streams may qualify as impaired under state criteria, the researchers report. … Using satellite images taken by NASA between 1976 and 2005, [lead author Emily] Bernhardt and her coauthors created maps of mountaintop mining in a 12,000-square-mile region of southern West Virginia. They found that companies had converted 5% of the land to mines during this period. … Bernhardt’s group found that salinity and mineral levels in the region’s streams increased with the total area of mountaintop mines. The researchers also found that as the number of mines increased,...

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Mountaintop-removal mining has contaminated up to 22% of streams in southern West Virginia from 1976 to today. :( [link]
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