iLoveMountains.org Mountaintop Removal Slideshow

Mountain near Rawl, West Virginia

Largely hidden from most Americans, a highly destructive form of coal mining...

Uploaded on Sep 28, 2006

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Mountaintop Removal Site in Pickering Knob, West Virginia

As shown here, mountaintop removal systematically blasts apart and dismantles...

Uploaded on Sep 29, 2006

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Kayford Mountain, West Virginia

Despite the massive scale of these operations, they are almost impossible to see...

Uploaded on Aug 28, 2006

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Title shot of the National Memorial for the Mountains

Organizations in Appalachia have begun using cutting-edge technology to...

Uploaded on Sep 28, 2006

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Mountaintop removal mine in New York City, New York!

The National Memorial for the Mountains was created in Google Earth because it...

Uploaded on Sep 8, 2006

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Boone and Logan Counties, WV, circa 1983

The Memorial shows images of areas before and after mountaintop removal. This...

Uploaded on Jul 31, 2006

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Boone and Logan Counties, WV, circa 2004

These satellite images show the same area 20 years later, with mountaintop removal...

Uploaded on Jul 31, 2006

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Clinch River Power Plant

Most of the coal from mountatintop removal mines is used to generate electricity....

Uploaded on Oct 6, 2006

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Ed Wiley marching to the US Capitol

In addition to using high-tech tools, the people of Appalachia are also using...

Uploaded on Sep 29, 2006

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Overview of Marsh Fork Elementary School - Raleigh County, WV

Marsh Fork Elementary in Sundial, W.Va., is on the front lines of mountaintop...

Uploaded on Oct 6, 2006

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Congressman Frank Pallone Speaks with Mary Anne Hitt and Kathy Selvage

Congress has responded by taking up the mountaintop removal issue. At the press...

Uploaded on Sep 29, 2006

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Near Blair Mountain, West Virginia

By preventing the dumping of heavy metal-laden mining waste into streams such as...

Uploaded on Aug 31, 2006

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mtrsitemtolivewv

This is a photo of a Mountaintop Removal site at Mt Olive in West Virginia This...

Uploaded on Aug 30, 2007

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mountolivebaptistchurchaug2006

This is a photo of a baptist church just a few miles down the road from a...

Uploaded on Aug 30, 2007

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coalriverrallyaug2006

This is a photo of the Coal River Mountain Watch rally against Mountaintop...

Uploaded on Aug 30, 2007

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