January 22, 2008
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Strip mines denounced
West Virginia’s coal industry is being held up to scorn by a new attack book and resulting publicity from it.
Coal River, by Michael Shnayerson, brands mountaintop removal as a devastating force wrecking “the purple mountain majesty that is America” — leaving poverty and ruin in its wake. He says out-of-state corporations are reaping giant profits from colonylike West Virginia, while coal communities such as Whitesville are becoming deserted. “The coal industry is making a killing. The Coal River valley is just getting killed.”
Sunday’s New York Times book section gave it a major review titled “Mountains into Molehills.” Calling West Virginia “a state of mournful beauty,” the national newspaper commented:
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