Mountain Top Removal Should Continue

            Mountaintop Mining is not as bad as people make it out to be. They claim it’s bad for the environment and for the economy, but they are wrong.

            Special precautions are taken to make sure an environment is safe during and after mining. Miners have to take steps to ensure that their jobs are done properly and safely. After mines are closed trees and other plants are planted in the area to help keep landslides and floods from happening and to allow what once was to be once again.

            As for the economy there are many job opportunities in the mining field, how is that not a help? Plus once mines are abandoned the land can be reused for many different things. Mines can used as tourist attractions. The roads used by the trucks can be made into trails. The flattened land can be used for many different buildings such as housing, complexes, schools, malls and sometimes even a jail if needed.

            A lot of people are against Mountaintop Mining but they only look at the supposed “bad side” of. They don’t look at how much growth it has allowed. 

Hatfield and McCoy Trails