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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

That’s a good and clever poster, but Ashley is more right then she is wrong on this. Mountaintop removal is a lousy technique. There is lots of coal available without it.

Scoop mining out west works since the contours of the land can be restored. Mined mountaintops never heal. Fly over one sometime.


22 posted on 07/08/2010 11:05:34 PM PDT by tlb
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To: tlb

What would “healing” mean? Is this a situation that is beyond “Mother Nature’s” ability to accommodate? It’s OK when God levels mountains through plate tectonics, glaciers, and such, but only disaster results when people do it on purpose?

Anyhow, since there is such a big refuse handling problem in the US, why not bring the two problems together. Re-top the mountains, with landfills.


24 posted on 07/08/2010 11:33:05 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: tlb
it is what it is...I don't like huge monstrous windmills lining the Columbia Gorge but there they are.....

Ashley is married to a gas guzzling car racer.....

32 posted on 07/09/2010 3:10:24 AM PDT by cherry
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