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Offline sam

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Time-Lapse: Mountaintop Mine Spreads Across Forest
« on: March 14, 2010, 20:36 »
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100311-mountaintop-mining-west-virginia/

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Surface mining may not move mountains. But a series of satellite views of a Boone County, West Virginia coal mine shows that the practice—also called mountaintop mining—can wipe out whole swaths of forests.

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Re: Time-Lapse: Mountaintop Mine Spreads Across Forest
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2010, 22:29 »
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Re: Time-Lapse: Mountaintop Mine Spreads Across Forest
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2010, 23:07 »
Good heavens.  I can't breathe!   :(
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Re: Time-Lapse: Mountaintop Mine Spreads Across Forest
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2010, 23:25 »
hit yourself in the chest hard 3 times... if that doesn't work call 999.



... on a more serious note, awful isn't it!
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Re: Time-Lapse: Mountaintop Mine Spreads Across Forest
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2010, 08:56 »
We call it opencast mining and there were plans to do the same on a mountain near us.  Thankfully they did not come to fruition. 
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Re: Time-Lapse: Mountaintop Mine Spreads Across Forest
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2010, 14:20 »
yeah, that would have been annoying.
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