mountaintop removal blog

      Mountain top removal is ruining our mountain state. The effects of mountain top removal are ugly and permanent. The first step they do for MMR is deforestation in which all of the vegetation on the whole mountain so they can begin to blast the over burden up. It is then moved into nearby valleys and streams where they fill in with dirt and this pollutes our streams and their aquatic ecosystems with dissolved minerals and toxic sediments. The loose soil makes flooding a major risk because there is nothing to hold the water back. Then they blast deep into the ground to gather the coal from the coal seams by using a dragline. Blasting near a town or house will cause damage too home and cover everything around the mine with black nasty coal dust. If we keep letting coal companies remove our mountains then we will eventually have no mountains in the mountain state anymore.