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Kayford Mountain, March 21, 2009
High Resolution Mountaintop Removal Pictures
Click on picture to open a high resolution image.
Photos by Vivian Stockman;
Flyover courtesy SouthWings For permission to use photos
(non-profit groups, school, students, low-income organization)
or to purchase one-time photo-use rights (for-profit groups) contact vivian@ohvec.org.
Note: high res images
have been compressed slightly to improve download
speed for most
browsers. Original digital images are available on
request.
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Down along Clear Fork, things aren't so quiet anymore. |
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Open the high resolution image and zoom in to take a closer
look. |
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The cabins belonging to the Stanley Heirs -- Larry Gibson's
relatives -- are no longer peaceful retreats. |
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Larry Gibson's cabin is the group furthest at right, the one
in the right of the "V" in the road. |
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The big shovel is in the foreground. |
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A blast will soon go off, shaking the community below. |
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Do click on this photo to open up the high resolution
version, and check out the scale of this small section of
the destruction. |
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The cabins are perched on an ever-diminishing green island
in a sea of extreme greed and lack of understanding of
humanity's life support systems manifested as mountaintop
removal / valley fill coal mining. |
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Down along Clear Fork, the mountain's demise is painful to
watch. The community is devastatingly altered, the land and
waters and life they support impoverished. |
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Another angle, more destruction. |
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What does it say about human nature that we allow this kind
of destruction to go on? |
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If we don't demand an end to mountaintop removal, coal
companies will inflict this carnage upon every coal-bearing,
verdant, richly-forested, water-blessed,
community-supporting mountain. |
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