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by slipframe 1827 days ago
Clean power and mountaintop removal are mutually exclusive. That is neither clean nor renewable. Among other things, the water that flows through mineshafts, collects in quarries, or over strip-mines is often toxic as hell. When you dig into the rock like that, you expose a lot of water soluble toxic shit to the elements which poisons everything downstream.