Mountaintop Removal: Environmental Impact and Concerns
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Mountaintop removal refers to the surface mining method which literally involves
removal of mountain top by almost 800 feet in order to gain access to the deposits of coal that is
found beneath. The deep explosive chargers are set by the use of core drills. This leads to the
generation of a force whose magnitude is almost 100 times more than the bombing of Oklahoma
in the year 1995. The layers of the soil and rocks which are commonly referred to as
"overburden" in the mining industry becomes very loose to the extent that they are easily
scooped away by the use of draglines.
Draglines are crane-like machines that have the capacity to move distance equivalent
two hundred yards in a single scoop. According to Eyal, Ittay, and Emin
2018 ," Communications of the AC” there is damping of excess wastes and the soil is usually
dumped over the hillsides that are nearby hence forming valley fills. It is important to note that
despite the requirement of terraced as well as engineered valley hills to have diversion ditches of
water, this practice is frequently characterized by blockage of the permanent as well as
intermittent rivers. According to the available data, there are over 1200 miles of such permanent
as well as intermittent streams which have been buried in areas of Appalachian.
Demšar et al 2013." The Journal of Machine Learning Research illustrates that people
living close to the mines are surprisingly the ones opposing the activity. They tend to be
concerned about the status of their environment and more particularly they fear the loss of their
cultural practices. Many families who have been living close to the mines for more than seven
generations have tried to maintain their particular communities as they try to incorporate the
characters of their families and individualities. Freitas 2013” Data mining and knowledge
discovery with evolutionary algorithms” argues that the flash flooding affecting those at the
removal of mountain top by almost 800 feet in order to gain access to the deposits of coal that is
found beneath. The deep explosive chargers are set by the use of core drills. This leads to the
generation of a force whose magnitude is almost 100 times more than the bombing of Oklahoma
in the year 1995. The layers of the soil and rocks which are commonly referred to as
"overburden" in the mining industry becomes very loose to the extent that they are easily
scooped away by the use of draglines.
Draglines are crane-like machines that have the capacity to move distance equivalent
two hundred yards in a single scoop. According to Eyal, Ittay, and Emin
2018 ," Communications of the AC” there is damping of excess wastes and the soil is usually
dumped over the hillsides that are nearby hence forming valley fills. It is important to note that
despite the requirement of terraced as well as engineered valley hills to have diversion ditches of
water, this practice is frequently characterized by blockage of the permanent as well as
intermittent rivers. According to the available data, there are over 1200 miles of such permanent
as well as intermittent streams which have been buried in areas of Appalachian.
Demšar et al 2013." The Journal of Machine Learning Research illustrates that people
living close to the mines are surprisingly the ones opposing the activity. They tend to be
concerned about the status of their environment and more particularly they fear the loss of their
cultural practices. Many families who have been living close to the mines for more than seven
generations have tried to maintain their particular communities as they try to incorporate the
characters of their families and individualities. Freitas 2013” Data mining and knowledge
discovery with evolutionary algorithms” argues that the flash flooding affecting those at the
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