Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Eight Billion Tons of What America Got Out of Kentucky (Eastern Coalfields, Then and Now)


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Company houses, Floyd County, Kentucky: photo by Arnold Rothstein, May 1938 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Coal mine, Floyd County, Kentucky: photo by Arnold Rothstein, May 1938 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Mining town, Floyd County, Kentucky: photo by Arnold Rothstein, May 1938 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)

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Mountaintop removal coal mining site, Eastern Kentucky: photo by J. W. Randolph, 2 November 2007

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Mountaintop removal coal mining, regional distribution: Landsat satellite image showing regional extent of m
ountaintop removal coal mining in southern West Virginia, southwestern Virginia and eastern Kentucky. Mining operation near towns of Kayford and Marsh Fork, West Virginia shown by yellow box. Aside from a few scattered clouds at center right (bright white spots), most of the pink to white patches on this image are active or unreclaimed mountaintop removal and strip mining operations: image by Sky Truth, 7 February 2011

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Valley fill: mountaintop removal coal mining, Martin County, Kentucky
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Mountaintop removal coal mining site, Appalachia: photo by The Sierra Club, 12 October 2006