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In today's Svenska Dagbladet, a Stockholm based daily newspaper, there is an article on mountaintop removal mining in the Appalachians, West Virginia, US. In short this is a cheaper faster way to extract coal than traditional mining and it involves blowing up mountaintops, buying off house owners in the area to be able to legally dump the waste down the slopes of the mountains and into the valleys, burying water streams and disturbing or destroying wildlife in vast areas.
This seems to be a very undignified way to treat a 480 million years old mountain.
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