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Pioneer Coal Strip Mine in Stellarton, Nova Scotia. This 40 foot seam of coal is said to be the thickest in the world. The front end loader is a LeTourneau L950 and has a 18yd bucket. A D-11 CAT is pushing fill.
http://www.letour neau-inc.com/pdf/equ ipment/mining/L-950. pdf
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East Kentucky residents speak out against an Office of Surface Mining proposed rule change that would lead to more devastating mountain top removal mining and the burial of Appalachian streams at a public hearing in Hazard, KY on 10-24-07
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Elizabeth May holds a press conference at Point Aconi, Cape Breton Island to call for a full environmental assessment of the Prince Mine strip site and support Citizens Against Strip Mining in their ongoing fight against the Pioneer Coal strip mining project.
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Boularderie Farmers representative Fraser Hunter tells MLA Cecil Clarke that strip mining uses water needed for farming and causes irreparable damage to precious soil.
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At the mouth of the Bras d'Or Lakes in Cape Breton, under the pretext of "cleaning up" an old federal mine site, tourism, fishing, agriculture and our environment are being destroyed as the "cleanest, greenest" government approves strip mining high sulphur, high mercury coal on Boularderie Island and trucking it to NSPI's high polluting generating station at Lingan. 28.08.07
At the National Rural Assembly, Al from the Institute of Rural Journalism in Lexington, KY asks whether the candidates would do anything to limit the mountaintop, strip mining of coal.
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A trailer of the upcoming film, Burning the Future. The film takes a hard look at the environmental and human effects of strip mining coal in the US. Please see www.myspace.com/burn ingthefuture
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This rusted hulk of machinery onced strip mined coal from the hills of Walker County in West Alabama. I couldn't believe the size of this thing. A distant cousin-in-law once removed narrates this bit.
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collateral looks into the horror that is mountain top removal. Large coal industries are destroying the environment through strip mining and mountain top removal where they literately blow a mountain to pieces to get the coal and leave the landscape devastating.