A friend just sent me some good quotes about Mountaintop Removal, I intend to talk a lot more about this subject, in fact, I already used Fred Armstrong’s Removal by the State as a timely metaphor.

“Mountaintop removal is the biggest
environmental battle of our hemisphere.
You know, you can restore the Hudson River
in perhaps a hundred years. But you will
never, never, get these mountains back.
This is truly a crime against every human
being in the world.”

- Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“Strip mining is rampant right now, and it’s raping, it’s raping the countryside,” she said. “What if you knew that every time you flip on your light switch a mountaintop in West Virginia just blows up? It’s crazy.” Kathy Mattea quoted by Ken Ward, Charleston Gazette, June 28, 2007

“If we destroy the mountain, do you know how much electricity we get out of that mountain for the coal? An entire mountain provides an hour’s worth of electricity for the U.S.” Mike McKinney, University of Tennessee Geology Professor, as quoted in the June 2007 Highlands Voice.