Judy Bonds

Judy Bonds is fighting a form mining called mountain top, 0r MTR this process involves literally blasting of the top of a mountain to mine the layers of coal found there. Three and one- half million pounds of explosives are being used everyday to blow up the mountain. Judy Bonds didn’t want to leave her home, were her family had lived and mined for years, but the landscaped had been so materially changed that she had no choice. She became director of coal river mountain watch , working to end MTR and protect Appalachia and the people who live there. Bonds died fighting for this cause losing her battle with cancer January 2011. Mountain top removal coal mining is responsible for the burial of almost 2.ooo miles of Appalachian streams, the leveling of over 500 Appalachian mountaintops. I am firmly convinced that mountain top removal is a moral issues begs our hearts and minds to do the right thing. These headwater streams provide essential good and service. Rivers are network, and their downstream navigable portions are inextricably linked to small headwater. We can’t just destroy our mountains and streams . When we turn on the lights in our home, we don’t think about the people getting sick and the mountains being destroyed in Appalachia to provide use with our power. The impact of mountaintop removal on nearby communities is devastating. Dynamite blasts needed to splinter rock strata are so strong they crack the foundation and walls of houses of houses. Mining dries up average of 100 wells a year and contaminates water in others. Mountaintop removal have not effect my community even though I live in North Carolina until I started reading.