Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Moutaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities

by Shirley Stewart Burns

Book Overview

Coal is West Virginia's bread and butter. For more than a century, West Virginia has answered the energy call of the nation--and the world--by mining and exporting its coal. In 2004, West Virginia's coal industry provided almost forty thousand jobs directly related to coal, and it contributed $3.5 billion to the state's gross annual product. And in the same year, West Virginia led the nation in coal exports, shipping over 50 million tons of coal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933202173
• ISBN13: 9781933202174
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: West Virginia University Press
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 8.9"