The bucket-wheel excavator has long scoured the lignite fields of western Germany, erasing whole villages and leaving a trail of bad soil and salty water.
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
Politics in the Zeros
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
It is true, that these excavators destroyed the landscape in the past, but many of the ex-coal mines are rebuild right now.
I have a friend who works for BLM, who insists that a rehabilitated coal mine is actually better than the landscape as nature intended it. Personally, I have my doubts.
What’s a rehabbed coal mine?
Coal mines are typically open-pit mines. When they’re finished with the mine, they “rehabilitate” or “restore” it to return it to its “natural” state– as envisioned by man, not Nature. See for example:
http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/Default.aspx?alias=www.dnr.state.oh.us/mineral