Quotes & Sayings About Mountaintop Removal

Economic development is what's going to make mountaintop removal palatable. — Joe Manchin

If it can't be proven that mountaintop removal mining is safe, we shouldn't allow it to continue. — John Yarmuth

Prior to that I testified before the Senate subcommittee addressing mountaintop removal. — Kevin Richardson

This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive. — Rivera Sun

Claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of creating flat land for development To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe. — Joseph Conrad

It is a fact that our fresh water is becoming more scarce and that the new ways we are getting energy in America - fracking, mountaintop removal, cyclic steam extraction, deep-sea drilling - all pollute water, pollute the air, and pollute our soil and food. — Mark Ruffalo

Mountaintop removal coal operations enrich only a handful of elites while impoverishing everyone else in their proximity. — Gloria Reuben