> What facts? You once again demonstrate you penchant to comment on every
>> subject, even though you apparently know little or nothing of the subject on
>> which you choose to comment.
>>
>>
>>
>> Obviously you know noting about the Anthracite and Bituminous coal fields in
>> Pennsylvania. They are not on the mountain tops. The coal is all in "U"
>> shape veins between the mountains. For the past fifty years, ALL coal wash
>> water has been collected, sediments removed and the water REUSED. Any water
>> release is treated for acids before being discharged. After the coal is
>> removed the area is restored to grade. Even old areas, mined before
>> federal and state reclamation laws were passed, are being reclaimed and put
>> to use LOL
>>
>>
>>>> And don't forget - coal extraction can be devastating to the environment:
>>>> 90 million gallons of waste slurry produced every year while preparing
>>>> coal to be burned, 1,200+ miles of streams that have been buried or
>>>> polluted - just in in the Appalachia region because of mountaintop
>>>> removal mining, 260 million gallons of water used for coal mining in the
>>>> U.S. every day, 12,000 miners died from black lung disease between 1992
>>>> and 2002...
>>>>
>>>> a
>>> Stop it! Please don't confuse the members of the group with facts. It only
>>> clarifies issues.
>>>
>>> Jeff
>
> I don't know to whom you were responding. The logical person would be
> me, because I made the last comment.
>
> However, I didn't make any comments about particular types of mining,
> because I knew that mountain top removal mining is destroying the
> environment in West Virgina, where the Applalachian Mountains are (they
> are not just in PA). I am also well aware of the how coal is mined in
> the mountains. My father and grandfather used to deliver coal in a Model > A truck
Did your mother and or grandmother ever give them s*it for leaving carbon footprints, all over her clean kitchen floor, when they returned from work?
Did they ever get s*it for leaving carbon *hand-prints* on the 'Oh my god... the relatives are staying over for the weekend!' special towels?
; further, my great grandfather was a fire boss in the mines.
>
> However, the poster to whom I was responding was correct about
> mountaintop mining, more accurately called "mountaintop-removal mining,"
> because the mountain top is literally blasted away. The rocks are left
> in the valleys, where the rivers are polluted by the rocks and the
> minerals in the rocks.
>
> As luck would have it, I was at the American Museum of Natural History
> this week, where they had a short movie about Mountain Top Mining. You
> may educate yourself by going to that great museum or by reading
> articles that you can find with a google search like these:
>
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> You may want to keep your hands off the keyboard and remember the old
> adage: "It is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than
> to open it and leave no doubt."
>
> In this case, you left no doubt.
>
> Jeff