Michael Maskalans <dml@tepidcola.com> wrote:
: On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Rick Barnes wrote:
:>
:> Yeah, that figures...the one thing we have plenty of, coal, you want to stop
:> using....
: I would love it if all coal plants could be shut. just because we have a
: lot of it within our boarders doesn't make it a good fuel. coal is a
: dirty fuel from end to end, they take mountaintops and put them into
: valleys to strip mine it and don't do anything to reclaim the land when
: they're done.
That's definitely been the case in the past, but from what I have
seen, not any longer. I don't know if there are federal regulations
involved or what, but nowadays, the plan for a coal mine requires a
reclamation step, and the land that results from that is really nice.
I think they usually turn it into recreation areas with lakes/ponds,
or farms, etc. A lot of the time, the land actually looks better
after the mining than before.
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