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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"mountaintop removal"”.
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Searching West Virginia for a Democratic Response to Mountaintop Removal
Mountaintop removal is an aggressive form of strip mining practiced almost exclusively in Central Appalachia, and since 1977 has been regulated by state and federal laws. Beginning in the late 1990s, considerable controversy erupted in coal mining states like West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee …
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Stream functional response to mountaintop removal and valley fill coal mining
Mountaintop removal and valley fill (MTRVF) mining has become a widespread means of coal extraction in the central Appalachians. During MTRVF several hundred meters of overburden are removed to access coal seams, and excess rubble is dumped into adjoining valleys and streams. Filling valleys …
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Characterization and quality of soils developing on a mountaintop removal coal mine
Mountaintop surface mining for coal has been practiced in West Virginia for over three decades, but its environmental impacts have become increasingly scrutinized in recent years. Therefore, this study evaluated soil development on different aged mined lands. Four different ages (2, 7, 11, and 23 …
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Chronotopic Figurations of Coal Mining at Blair Mountain
… War and, more recently, contested terrain for mountaintop removal mining, is an exemplar of Appalachia coal mining's uniquely American tropes. In 1921, roughly 8,000 miners were held up at Blair as they marched south to Logan to protest labor conditions and petition for the right to unionize …
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Land Cover Change and its Impacts on a Flash Flood-Producing Rain Event in Eastern Kentucky
… Plateau of the Appalachian Mountains. With mountaintop removal and associated land cover change (LCC) (primarily deforestation), it is hypothesized that there would be changes in various atmospheric boundary layer parameters and precipitation. In this research, we have conducted sensitivity …
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A mixed integer model for optimizing equipment scheduling and overburden transport in a surface coal mining operation
… development of more efficient methods for coal removal. Despite this trend, very little emphasis has been placed on the development of optimization techniques applicable to the surface coal industry. The available methods are inadequate in that they recognize neither the complex equipment …
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An integrated computer simulator for surface mine planning and design
… This study presents a computer simulator for a mountaintop removal type of surface mining operation. It will permit users to compare the costs associated with different overburden handling and reclamation plans. It may be used to minimize productivity losses, and, perhaps, to increase …
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Analyses of coal extraction and spoil handling techniques in mountainous areas
Surface mining of multiple seams by mountaintop mining methodology is complex in the Appalachian region of West Virginia. Mining operations in these mountainous areas can be considered as customized forms of surface mining techniques. The customization of the mining methods is greatly dominated by …
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Beyond Topography: Remapping Appalachia
… focus on our urban centers through mountaintop removal coal mining. Architecture’s conversations around sustainable architecture have neglected the design interventions that operate at our sites of resource extraction. We design buildings for a ~100-year lifespan, but extraction …
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Prison Siting in Appalachia: Carceral Expansion, Neoliberalism, and Environmental Harm
… federal prison would be built upon a former mountaintop removal site. This raises serious questions about the health impacts for incarcerated persons and prison employees, as well as environmental harm including the pollution of drinking water and the conservation of old growth forest nearby. …
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Evaluating the role of flow and specific conductivity on stream metabolism across a mining-induced salinity gradient in the Appalachian Coalfield
… history of resource extraction in the region. Mountaintop removal/valley fill mining techniques in Appalachia result in the burial of headwater streams and mobilization of ions, specifically SO42-, Ca, and Mg into waters, raising specific conductivity (SpC). Organismal responses to salinization …
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Salt in the Wound: Trophic Mismatches Emerge Between Macroinvertebrate Secondary Production and Basal Food Resources Along a Salinity Gradient in Central Appalachian Headwaters
Mountaintop removal mining practices in central Appalachia have directly altered headwater stream biotic communities through elevated ions (e.g. Cl-, Ca2+, SO42-) that increase salinity, as measured by specific conductance (SC). It has been long understood that benthic macroinvertebrate …
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Actually Existing Democracy and Energy Justice: The Case of the Coalfields Delegation to the United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development
… Energy injustice, in the particular form of mountaintop removal coal mining, occurs locally, yet is inherently global in its implications through the processes of international trade and consumption. Therefore, the appropriate level at which to examine these seemingly "local" concerns is that …
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Examining the Impacts of Valley Fills in Stream Ecosystems on Amphibian and Aquatic Insect Communities in Southeastern Kentucky
… </p> <p>Chapter 2 Abstract: Valley fills due to mountaintop-removal mining bury headwater streams and affect downstream water quality and ecological function. Past studies have focused on generally one taxonomic group or purely habitat and water quality affects. In this study we evaluated stream …
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Exploitation of Land and Labor in Appalachia: The Manipulation of Men in Ann Pancake's Strange as this Weather Has Been
<p>Ecofeminism is traditionally interested in the relationship between patriarchal domination of women and nature. Ann Pancake’s novel <em>Strange As this Weather Has Been </em>critiques the way the coal mining industry has affected the Appalachian people and land. The novel reflects natural …