Mountaintop Removal: Environmental and Human Destruction for Profit
&Quot;Judy endured much personal suffering for her leadership. While people of lesser courage would candy-coat their words or simply shut up and sit down, Judy called it as she saw it. (As a result, she) endured physical assault, verbal abuse, and death threats because she stood up for justice for her community. I never met a more courageous person, one who faced her own death," yet wouldn't back down. "Fight harder," she always said, in the vanguard always doing it. In his "People's History of the United States," Howard Zinn poignantly described its 1913-14 strike and subsequent massacre, killing 75 or more strikers, strikebreakers, and bystanders for defying what he called "feudal kingdoms run by (coal barons that) made the laws," imposed curfews, and ran their operations more like despots than businessmen. To this day, little has changed. Only two florists remain. Though poor, West Virginians "buy a lot of funeral flowers. Whitesville resembles a wartime town pillaged by an advancing army." So do many others throughout Appalachia, raped by coal profiteers. For maximum profits, they denuded former panoramic landscapes, blasted away majestic mountaintops, and left desolation behind. Moreover, few Americans elsewhere know it or even care. They're oblivious to "three million (daily) pounds of explosives" destroying a mountain culture, producing the most toxic fossil fuel used to supply more than half of the nation's electricity, as well as power for manufacturers of paper, chemicals, metal products, plastics, ceramics, fertilizers, tar, and high carbon coke used for steel industry metal processing. A 2010 Environmental Integrity Project/Sierra Club/EarthJustice study, however, found that ash produced by coal-fired power plants contaminated ground water and air with dangerous toxins, including arsenic, benzene, mercury and lead. They're linked to cancer, congestive heart failure, nervous system damage, respiratory diseases, asthma, other health related problems, and lower life expectancies. As a result, nearly 24,000 people die annually, according to a 2004 Clean Air Task Force study. In 2009, a National Research Council "external costs of coal" report titled, "Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use" estimated a 2005 hidden $62 billion health damage and air pollution cost from electricity generated by coal-fired power plants.Paper Sludge Mine Reclamation - News
Mountaintop Removal: Environmental and Human Destruction for Profit
Nonetheless, King Coal's power remains strong, including to offload mine reclamation costs to taxpayers, another way they're made to pay. Even trying to beat industry giants in court is futile because occasional district court level wins get overturned
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The Sierra Club claims that from 1973 to 2010, the San Juan Coal Mine stored over 40 million tons of CCR waste on Coal Mine property in a large, unlined pit, resulting in alleged violations of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) and
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This Blog is a companion to www.PaEnvironmentDigest.com, the weekly online newsletter published by Crisci Associates, Harrisburg, PA. I can be contacted at 717-234-1716 or by sending email to: DHess@CrisciAssociates.com. I served as Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection from 2001 to 2003, as staff in the Pennsylvania Senate and in the former Department of Environmental Resources for over 30 years.
Paper Sludge Mine Reclamation - Bookshelf
Organic matter degradation and metal uptake of shallow paper sludge covers over gold mine tailings
Handbook of soil conditioners, substances that enhance the physical properties of soil
In reclamation studies of abandoned mine soils containing pyritic spoil, composted paper sludge was roughly equivalent to limed topsoil for successful ...Journal of environmental horticulture
Given the suitable attributes of pulp and paper sludge ... soil amendments or conditioners in agriculture, forestry, and mine reclamation (7, 15, 20, 21). ...Ground Improvement Techniques
... require a large usable land which could be possible only by reclamation. ... for disposal of garbage, industrial wastes, paper sludge, mine tailings, ...Ground Improvement Techniques (HB)
... require a large usable land which could be possible only by reclamation. ... for disposal of garbage, industrial wastes, paper sludge, mine tailings, ...Detect Guide Directory
Mine Reclamation Using Biosolids
After screening, sludge is sent to a grit-removal system that filters out heavy, ... and paper mill fines. A typical mine reclamation project would ...
A Sustainable Chesapeake
reclamation methodology that simultaneously uses waste materials to revitalize the soil, ... Paper mill sludge delivery, mixing and spreading costs paid for by mine operator. ...
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Mine land reclamation strategies in the Nikopol manganese ore basin ... Impact of paper mill sludge application for sand and gravel pit reclamation on underground water quality ...
Protocols for Use of Biosolids and Co-Amendments for Mined ...
This paper focuses on. the direct use of biosolids as amendments to mined lands, not upon lands indirectly ... widely used in reclamation called mine mix which is specifically ...
Nutrient fluxes from abandoned mine soils reclaimed with ...
Paper was presented at the 2008 National Meeting of the American Society of Mining and ... adding manure and paper mill sludge to mine soil are sufficient to ...