found online by Raymond
From Blue in the Bluegrass:
The coal operators were shrugging off the destruction, one of them actually recorded on video saying “These mountains ain’t no good for nuthin’ anyway.” Nothing except supporting families with the bounty of mature, diverse forests.
The environmentalists and local activists were jumping up and down with their hair on fire, accurately predicting the devastation of mountain communities to come over the next decades and demanding a solution.
You see, when you strip mine for coal, you are literally stripping everything from trees and leaf mold right down to bedrock.