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To: Eric who wrote (23438)9/16/2010 12:47:50 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie3 Recommendations  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 86355
 
except that mountaintop and strip mines reclaim the land and they become productive for wildlife in very short order.

Here is a bear (sow) that had three cubs on reclaimed land in West Virginia.




To: Eric who wrote (23438)9/16/2010 12:50:56 AM
From: TimF  Respond to of 86355
 
Again cost is a bigger issue than area.

And a mine doesn't devote as large of area to machinery, its extracting from an area. Actually building machinery over that large of area is a much more difficult proposition. You could mine an area the size of Delaware if the resources where really worth it. Covering the state with mirrors and turbines would be quite a bit harder to say the least.



To: Eric who wrote (23438)9/16/2010 12:51:34 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 86355
 
you may remember that Daryl Hannah was arrested about 18 months ago while protesting mountaintop mining. It just so happens that the land she was on at the time had been mined a couple of years ago and was subsequently reclaimed.

this is the exact location...a mountaintop mine where she was arrested:



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