There is an excellent film on Sundance channel right now, "Burning the
Future". It's all about mountain top mining (literally blowing the tops
of mountains up and scooping the coal out) and what's happening to the
people of West Virginia. Really a shame and part of the fallacy of
"clean coal technology".
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Chris Barker wrote:
> Oh dear!
>
> I visited this region in 1989, and drove along the (formerly named)
> Daniel Boone Parkway. But it looks as if the Appalachians are no
> more ...
>
> <http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-mountain-that-lost-its-top-831037.html
>
> >
>
> OM content: I used my newly acquired OM2SP and 28/2.8 to take some
> quite resonable photos of the area.
>
> Chris
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