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
Voting rights, politics, renewable energy, water
Politics in the Zeros
Voting rights, politics, renewable energy, water
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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