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Daily KosBREAKING: EPA Denies Permit for Infamous WV Mountaintop Removal Mine
by rperks
Fri Oct 16, 2009 at 06:45:22 PM PDT
Go tell it on the mountain!
Today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finally put an end to the saga of the infamous Spruce Mine, jamming a stake in the heart of what would have been the largest mountaintop removal project in the history of West Virginia.
EPA rejected the permit for this mine due to massive water quality impacts that would have resulted from a series of mega-valley fills. As the agency said in its just-released statement:
http://wvgazette.com/static/coal%20tattoo/spruceepaletter.pdf EPA is taking this action because it is concerned about the magnitude, scale, and severity of the direct, indirect, and cumulative adverse environmental and water quality impacts associated with this project . The Spruce Mine as currently configured would bury more than seven miles of streams.Read more:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/10/16/794233/-BREAKING:-EPA-Denies-Permit-for-Infamous-WV-Mountaintop-Removal-Mine
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