Wind Farming on Coal River Mountain

I appreciate Hunter Lovins' comments about mountaintop removal, but the other panelist hastily diverted attention from that issue. Mountaintop removal destroys communities and ever-diminishing water resources. The blasting and dust endanger human health and homes. The coal industry destroys people's well water supplies by pumping processing waste into underground mines, where it seeps into aquifers. A 2.8 billion-gallon waste sludge dam sits just 400 yards above Marsh Fork Elementary School. Add other hazards, such as the billion gallons of coal ash that TVA allowed to destroy a community in Harriman, TN, and coal is clearly a major threat to people from cradle to grave. That doesn't even take CO2 and the climate crisis into account. Coal apologists like to pretend that emissions are the only issue, and that coal is acceptable as long as they continue to pretend CCS will take care of the problem. I take great offense to the proposition that my family's lives and this community are acceptable sacrifices for electricity.
And in answer to another post, eliminating 400-800 feet from the mountain's elevation makes it unsuitable for commercial wind.

Hey Matt-- is this a mountaintop removal mine? what about wind energy, after the mountain has been "reclaimed"? (Reclaimed here is in quotes for obvious reasons.)

But the largest private employer in West Virginia is Wal-Mart. It has been since 1998. The largest coal operator in the state is Consol, which ranks in at number 10. That's behind several hospitals, CSX (railroads and the Greenbrier resort), and Kroeger (grocery store).