THE LAST MOUNTAIN FACTS
- Almost half of the electricity produced in the U.S. comes from the burning of coal.
- Sixteen pounds of coal is burned each day for every man woman and child in the US.
- Thirty-percent of that coal comes from the mountains of Appalachia.
- Burning coal is the number one source of greenhouse gases worldwide.
- The Destruction
- Mountain top removal has destroyed 500 Appalachian Mountains, decimated 1 million acres of forest, and buried 2000 miles of streams.
- The Company
- Massey Energy is responsible for more mountaintop removal mining than any other company in the U.S. [Massey agreed to be purchased by Alpha Natural Resources in mid-2011]
- Massey Energy is America’s 3rd largest coal company by revenue, and it controls all the coal mining in Coal River Valley.
- Between 2000 and 2006 Massey committed more than 60,000 environmental violations.
- These are some of the shocking revelations from the movie THE LAST MOUNTAIN. While the wind industry could eliminate the waste, destruction, and human hazards of mountain top removal, the lobbists for the coal burning electric companies spend record numbers in congress.
- It is up to us to demand clean energy, renewable energy, creating more jobs and saving our earth
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