scholarly journals Bringing down the mountains: The impact of mountaintop removal surface coal mining on southern West Virginia communities, 1970--2004

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley L. Stewart Burns
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Mountaintop Removal ◽  
Surface Coal Mining ◽  
The Impact

Microchemical analysis of selenium in otoliths of two West Virginia fishes captured near mountaintop removal coal mining operations

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 1039-1044 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariah C. Arnold ◽  
Lisa A. Friedrich ◽  
T. Ty Lindberg ◽  
Matthew Ross ◽  
Norman M. Halden ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Mining Operations ◽  
Mountaintop Removal ◽  
Microchemical Analysis

Bioaccumulation and speciation of selenium in fish and insects collected from a mountaintop removal coal mining-impacted stream in West Virginia

Ecotoxicology ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 929-938 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. C. Arnold ◽  
T. Ty Lindberg ◽  
Y. T. Liu ◽  
K. A. Porter ◽  
H. Hsu-Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Mountaintop Removal

scholarly journals Resource Wars: An On the Ground Understanding of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in Appalachia, West Virginia

2015 ◽  
Vol 102 ◽  
pp. 8-16
Author(s):  
Nicole Fabricant
Keyword(s):  
West Virginia ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Mountaintop Removal ◽  
Student Responses ◽  
Students First ◽  
Elective Course ◽  
Upper Level ◽  
Physical Degradation

This article sketches student responses and subsequent political action to directly witnessing the tragedy of Mountaintop Coal Mining (MTR) on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia. I have created an "engaged anthropological curriculum" as part of my Resource Wars of 21st Century (an upper level elective course) where students spend four days on an active battlefield in order to a) expose students first-hand to the stories and testimonials of social, economic, physical degradation caused by MTR.   

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