Rock-Moving: Internet Sources for Enviromental Impacts

Your operation’s purpose is to get through the rock (or overburden) to expose the minable coal layers.  In order to do this you blast using explosives, and then excavate and move the rock using bulldozers and other heavy equipment.

Please make use of these internet sources:

1. Tribal Energy and Environmental Information: https://teeic.indianaffairs.gov/er/coal/impact/construct/index.htm

2. Appalachian Voices (scroll down to the section on Blasting and Flying Rock): http://appvoices.org/end-mountaintop-removal/community/

3. The Strip Mining Handbook (Scroll down to the sections on: Mountaintop Removal Method, Environmental Effects, and the last 3 paragraphs of Water Resource Damage): https://sites.google.com/site/stripmininghandbook/chapter-2-1

4. Science X: https://phys.org/news/2016-02-central-appalachia-flatter-due-mountaintop.html

5. The World Counts: http://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/Negative-Effects-of-Coal-Mining

6. One Green Planet (Scroll down to the section on Air Quality): https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/mountaintop-removal-impact-on-animals-environment-and-human-health/