Kentucky flooding: Is it caused by Mountain Top Mining?

[FarPoint]

I always got that sick feeling as a young girl when we drove thru Kentucky/ Virgina/ Appalachia area and saw the Strip Mining/ Mountaintop Mining...


My gut feeling always said this was offensive to nature and humanity....

Is the current flooding related to this greedy coal mining system?

[FarPoint]

1. Here is an article I just found...

I am preparing to read now....focus on environmental impact...from said strip mining...for greed.


https://journalistsresource.org/environment/mountaintop-mining-consequences/#:~:text=Mountaintop%20mining%20is%20a%20widespread%20practice%20in%20eastern,into%20nearby%20valleys%2C%20disturbing%20habitats%20and%20blocking%20streams.

[Ocelot II]

2. Not caused, but certainly aggravated by it.

Anyplace where there are deep valleys there's going to be some flash flooding as the result of heavy rain, but clearing the tops of the hills allows the rain to flow unimpeded down the hills and into the streams and rivers. So it's a combination of climate change and bad mining practices - people fucking up the environment in different ways.

[brewens]

3. I bet it was in a few places. They blast and doze boulders, trees and all right down the side

of the mountains. It chokes off streams and removes all vegetation from a huge area. They weren't worrying about excessive rain and flooding when they did that.

[Bayard]

4. Of course not

They don't live there.

[brewens]

7. In can be an old mine that wasn't properly reclaimed and good luck there. They probably

declared bankruptcy to get out of paying leaseholders and for the cleanup. Then the same assholes pop up with different mining outfits to do it all over again.

[FarPoint]

5. My gut feeling on this tends to point to...

Mountaintop mining as a major cause of these flash floods. Strip away the topography/ mountains, vegetation...in massive amounts... I also fear for mud slides happening here too...


You know, how dangers approach to areas suffering from mass forest fires...flooding, mud slides...


If more data can be collected regarding the causality and said mining is identified as a primary contributor....This will have to be addressed/ exposed. We all know that this research has NOT been funded in the past to block information,,,

[Jilly_in_VA]

6. Not just mountaintop mining

but coal mining in general. Read Night Comes to the Cumberlands, by Henry Caudill. Coal companies tore up the whole place, forests, rivers, everything. Screwed up the entire landscape.