Aerial view of sludge dam at Elk Run, West Virginia
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. Through mountaintop removal and reclamation, the coal industry is introducing several new landforms to the coal fields.... More
Aerial view of Eagle Mine site
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. "To learn more about the cultural dimensions of "mountaintop removal and reclamation" and the new landform complexes th... More
View of the valley sludge pond from the mine entrance end to the dam
Mountaintop removal and reclamation introduces several new landforms to the coal fields. One of the introduced landforms is the "wet refuse impoundment," a structure designed to store the waste from coal prepar... More
Aerial view of Eagle Mine site
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. "To learn more about the cultural dimensions of "mountaintop removal and reclamation" and the new landform complexes th... More
Coal cleaning plant as viewed from the sludge dam. The pond is filled...
Mountaintop removal and reclamation introduces several new landforms to the coal fields. One of the introduced landforms is the "wet refuse impoundment," a structure designed to store the waste from coal prepar... More
View of the dam from the side of the sludge pond
Mountaintop removal and reclamation introduces several new landforms to the coal fields. One of the introduced landforms is the "wet refuse impoundment," a structure designed to store the waste from coal prepar... More
Variety of landform complexes on a mountaintop removal site from the a...
Following the rally in Cabin Creek, and a meeting of the Appalachian Voices board of directors, Hume Davenport, of Southwings in Tennessee, took board members and residents of the Coal River Valley on a series ... More
Kenny Lively, United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) union organizer, b...
Mountaintop removal and reclamation introduces several new landforms to the coal fields. One of the introduced landforms is the "wet refuse impoundment," a structure designed to store the waste from coal prepar... More
Aerial view of sludge dam at Elk Run, West Virginia
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. Through mountaintop removal and reclamation, the coal industry is introducing several new landforms to the coal fields.... More
Bear paw prints on the sludge pond dam
Mountaintop removal and reclamation introduces several new landforms to the coal fields. One of the introduced landforms is the "wet refuse impoundment," a structure designed to store the waste from coal prepar... More
Aerial view of sludge dam at Elk Run, West Virginia
Event: Helicopter tour of Mountaintop Removal and Reclamation on Big Coal River watershed. Through mountaintop removal and reclamation, the coal industry is introducing several new landforms to the coal fields.... More