Reclaiming West Virginia's mountains. This was once a useless old mountain, now reclaimed for positive economic impact by coal companies and their friends in the legislature, featuring WAL MART, KFC, TACO BELL, and TARGET. catastrophemap.com; photos by Vivian Stockman; flyover courtesy SouthWings; original Photo appeared on the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition website

29 May 2012 (CatMap) – This was once a useless old mountain, now reclaimed for positive economic impact by coal companies and their friends in the legislature.
In order for coal mining companies to earn the right blow the tops of mountains, pollute the streams below and fuck up the natural landscape beyond imagination, they have promised to reclaim the flat remains of the mountain and create positive economic opportunities where the mountain once was. They have destroyed just under 500 mountains in the past ten years, but have reclaimed about 5% of the land. In most cases, the reclamation process is an even bigger joke than the satiric image above. Please admire iLoveMountains’ reclamation FAIL map. […]

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