Mountaintop Removal

By Daniel Shea

On 26 February 2008

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Mountaintop Removal

Mining seen from the sky in West Virginia.

In the story Removing Mountains.

3 Responses

  • Karen Zimmerman

    On 6 March 2008 Karen Zimmerman said:

    I find this one of the most heartbreaking of practices we humans reek on this earth....to destroy our hills and mountains into rubble is depressing and abhorrent! Great job!

  • Daniel Shea

    On 8 March 2008 Daniel Shea said:

    Yeah it's beyond intense from the air. Thanks!

  • Jessica Stone

    On 1 April 2008 Jessica Stone said:

    I think that your pictures are amazing, but I don't think people get an appreciation of the hard work and necessity that is the mining industry. My father has been a coal miner for 30 years in West Virginia and Kentucky. Coal is a necessity that no one is willing to live without, but don't like the consequences of living with.
    Again, your work is amazing and captures the beauty of such a destructive process. But a process that keeps the lights on!

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