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Message In A Bottle

Posted by Denny, on February 25th, 2008

Sometimes I can get a little bit lax on doing meme’s and things. I don’t mean to it is just finding the right time to do them. At any rate this tag comes from my friend Hanna.

Here are the rules:

You are about to send a virtual Message In a Bottle across [...]

One thing a reader to my blog needs to keep in mind when I talk about mountaintop removal I’m looking at it not only as a resident of the coal fields but also as an avid hiker. This blog is entitled The BackWoods Drifter because I love to hike West Virginia’s backwoods. Being as that [...]

Marsh Fork Elementary

Posted by Denny, on February 23rd, 2008

I’ve done a marginal amount of talking concerning the Marsh Fork school. The school is highly controversial. It is actually controversial in a couple of different aspects.

The first being it’s vicinity to a coal silo and prep plant. The plant generates a lot of airborne coal dust and they actually spray chemicals on the [...]

Sludge Safety

Posted by Denny, on February 22nd, 2008

In 2001 there were 713 coal slurry impoundments in the US most of those in West Virginia, Virginia, and Kentucky. http://www.geotimes.org/dec01/NNcoal.html

Imagine how many of these slurries exist today. I often wonder if these toxic ponds can ever be reclaimed. Some slurry ponds are the same as valley fills and can hold a few billion [...]

Second Wind

Posted by Denny, on February 21st, 2008

These last few days I really haven’t been in the blogosphere very much or even on this blog for that matter. I had to step back and refocus on the task of spreading the word about mountaintop removal. My posts went from informative to borderline ridiculous.

Ask anybody that knows me and they will tell [...]