Bringing down the Mountains The Impact of Moutaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities

Name: Bringing down the Mountains The Impact of Moutaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities
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ISBN: 9781933202174

ISBN-10: 1933202173

ISBN-13: 9781933202174

Edition: 2007

Authors: Shirley S. BURNS

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List price: $28.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Publication date: 10/30/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 215
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


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


Photographs



Showdown in Charleston: The Judicial System and MTR



"Show Me Where to Put My Fishing Pole": The Environmental Impact of MTR


Epilogue: Requiem for the Mountains? Central Appalachian Coalfieids at a Crossroad


Notes


Bibliography



An excerpt from John D. Rockefeller's "Citizens to Abolish Surface Mining" Speech



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


Index