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[westphd]

Done a #composites for a Bryan after the #horseshoot! #theapps lol #horsephotograpy #cowboy #fineartphotography #westphd #westkirkleyphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CHzWmX4BF_M/?igshid=1dbyi3bd61zdk

[westphd]

Done a few #composites for a friend I call a sister after the #horseshoot! Yes I took her to the #beach #mounteverest #theapps oh she laughed so much lol #horsephotograpy #cowgirls #fineartphotography #westphd #westkirkleyphotography @mejias2k #canon (at Orlando, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHzUoFthc0c/?igshid=192uqi6nh6yvv

[peacewaterwomen]

Mountaintop Removal in the Appalachian Mountains

MTR is a form of mining where the extraction coals underneath the earth’s surface takes place and in order for many coal extraction companies to generate cheap electricity to communities; they must clear thousands of acres of some of the world’s most biological diverse forests.

MTR begins by…

Clearing thousands of acres of trees

Mountain is drilled with holes

Rigged with explosives

Finally, detonated

Once the mountaintop is in detonated and destroyed, thousands of animals lose their home, water and food sources. The remnants and debris of the explosives are later transferred down to local rivers, streams, and lakes through good ol’ Mother Nature (wind and water), thus, poisoning local water wells and water sources for many communities that share the same water source. In addition to polluted water, the remnants continue to kill more animals and crop as they are disperse into the air and down stream.

Did you know?

MTR mining has destroyed over 500 mountains and poisoned over 2,000 miles of stream for communities across Appalachia, and the damaging effects are real and current. Health problems that include but are not limited to cancer, liver and kidney disease, and skin rashes have been correlated with people who drink water from wells contaminated by coal mining.

About 500,000 acres in West Virginia alone have been  leveled, and mountaintop removal mining has destroyed an estimated total     of a million acres of Appalachia's mountains.

Across the Appalachian coalfields, more than 1,200 miles of streams are now buried or otherwise destroyed by mountaintop removal mining practices.

The Clean Water Act of 1977 is meant to protect, not bury, our rivers and streams.

The Clean Water Protection Act is necessary to protect clean water and the lives of Appalachian coalfield residents who are threatened by catastrophic flooding due to filling streams with mining waste

For more information please visit:

http://eqat.org/sites/default/files/mountaintop-removal-finance-fact-sheet.pdf

http://ohvec.org/issues/mountaintop_removal/how_to_help/