They flattened this mountaintop to find coal - and created a wasteland
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1391448,00.html
A ravaged US state is fighting back against mining bosses who backed
Bush, Paul Harris reports in Charleston, West Virginia
Sunday January 16, 2005
The Observer
Maria Gunnoe sits at the top of the valley her family has called home
for three generations and points to the artificial moonscape that has
replaced the once wooded and rolling hills.
Above her home there now sits a huge strip mine. Two more strip mines
are eating away the hills on the opposite side of the valley. 'I'm
being attacked on all sides,' she said.
Paul Harris
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West Virginia
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