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Author Burns, Shirley Stewart.

Title Bringing down the mountains : the impact of mountaintop removal surface coal mining on southern West Virginia communities, 1970-2004 / Shirley Stewart Burns
Edition 1st ed
Published Morgantown, West Virginia : West Virginia University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 214 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
Series West Virginia and Appalachia ; v. 5
West Virginia and Appalachia ; v. 5.
Contents Introduction: Open for business: the shameful legacy of natural resource extraction -- Making molehills out of mountains: power relationships and the rise of strip mining in southern West Virginia -- Solidarity forever? the UMWA and southern West Virginia --To dance with the devil: the social impact of MTR -- "You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours"; the political economy of coal -- Showdown in Charleston: the judicial system and MTR -- "Show me where to put my fishing pole": the environmental impact of MTR -- Appendix: 1. An excerpt from John D. Rockefeller's "citizens to abolish surface mining" speech -- 2. Coal impoundments found in the nine southern coalfield counties of West Virginia -- Coal-slurry spill information for the nine southern coalfield counties of West Virginia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-199) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia
Coal mines and mining -- Environmental aspects -- West Virginia
Strip mining -- Environmental aspects -- West Virginia
Mountaintop removal mining -- Environmental aspects -- West Virginia
Mountaintop removal mining -- Economic aspects -- West Virginia
Coal mines and mining.
Coal Mining
coal mines.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
Coal mines and mining
Coal mines and mining -- Environmental aspects
Strip mining -- Environmental aspects
SUBJECT West Virginia
Subject West Virginia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781933202990
1933202998