werepossum
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- Jul 10, 2006
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Mountaintop removal mining is a horrible practice; being a mountaintop, it is without exception a significant drainage and that means the runoff will contaminate streams for miles around. The silt will smother fish and invertebrate eggs and render habitat unusable for hundreds of years. The tailings will acidify the water to the point of killing streams. Mountaintop removal mining is a shining example of why we need greatly increased reliance on nuclear, natural gas, recovered methane, and solar.
As far as these people, assuming the blasting did cause the problem as seems likely, the company owes them not bottled water, but a state of the art filtration system and a supply of filters for as long as this situation lasts. Mountaintop removal mining is unfortunately a legal practice, but the people damaged by it still need to be made whole. Bathing in muddy water heavily contaminated with heavy metals and dangerous organics is NOT being made whole.
As far as these people, assuming the blasting did cause the problem as seems likely, the company owes them not bottled water, but a state of the art filtration system and a supply of filters for as long as this situation lasts. Mountaintop removal mining is unfortunately a legal practice, but the people damaged by it still need to be made whole. Bathing in muddy water heavily contaminated with heavy metals and dangerous organics is NOT being made whole.