Coal Mine Expansion Threatens Colorado Mountain Backcountry

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Conservation groups yesterday filed an administrative appeal challenging a U.S Forest Service decision approving a coal mine expansion that paves away for the corporate giant Arch Coal to bulldoze 6.5 miles of road and 48 natural gas drilling pads within the Sunset Roadless area 10 miles east of Paonia, Colorado. Sunset Roadless Area. (Ted Zukoski) The Forest Service’s August 2012 decision is the second within a year rubber-stamping the expansion of Arch Coal’s West Elk mine into roadless lands that provide habitat for lynx, black bear, elk and goshawk. The conservation groups won an appeal in February 2012 overturning the Forest Service’s initial approval of this expansion when the Forest Service concluded that it had failed to explain weakened protections for lynx, bald eagles, and measures meant to prevent landslides. Yesterday’s appeal, filed with the Forest Service’s ...

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RT @Y0J0J0J0: @EnergyTrans2012 [link] The Forest Service is dis-servicing the forest. We're going to die soon anyways, why do we need coal?
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@EnergyTrans2012 [link] The Forest Service is dis-servicing the forest. We're going to die soon anyways, why do we need coal?
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