Usage of "mountaintop removal"

Form of surface mining that involves the mining of the summit or summit ridge of a mountain.

Uso de mountaintop removal em inglês

Activists have fought a losing legal battle against mountaintop removal mining. 
 Wired 

RAN is part of a broad coalition fighting the destructive practice of mountaintop removal. 
 The Guardian 

For more on what mountaintop removal mining means, environmentally and humanly, read my article on it. 
 Wired 

In addition to the negative impact on employment, mountaintop removal has terrible effects on the land. 
 The Guardian 

It's cheaper and more efficient than old-fashioned mining, but the effects of mountaintop removal -or MTR -are devastating. 
 Wired 

The Sierra Club called it a bold new policy to protect communities and waterways from the impacts of mountaintop removal coal mining. 
 Reuters 

The bulk of my research was geared toward the mountaintop removals. 
 Rogues 

Mountaintop removal mining is devastating the Appalachian mountains in the US. 
 The Guardian 

Mountaintop removal, West Virginia. 
 The world without us 

Mountaintop removal has destroyed 500 Appalachian mountains, decimated 1 million acres of forest, and buried 2000 miles of streams. 
 Reuters 

Significados de mountaintop removal em inglês