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Bringing down the mountains : the impact of mountaintop removal surface coal mining on southern West Virginia communities, 1970-2004 /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Morgantown, West Virginia :
West Virginia University Press,
©2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. |
| Colección: | West Virginia and Appalachia ;
v. 5. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- Showdown in Charleston: the judicial system and MTR
- "Show me where to put my fishing pole": the environmental impact of MTR
- Appendix: 1. An excerpt from John D. Rockefeller's "citizens to abolish surface mining" speech
- 2. 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.