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2. Coal mining in Kentucky - Wikipedia

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   Starting in the 1960s coal seams in both Kentucky coal fields have been increasingly accessed via a method known as Mountaintop Removal Mining, which is a form of surface mining that involves the topographical alteration and/or removal of a summit, summit ridge, or significant portion of a mountain, hill, or ridge in order to obtain a desired ...

3. Environmental justice and coal mining in Appalachia - Wikipedia

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   The shift towards coal surface mining from underground mining led to a 50% decline in mining jobs from 1985 to 2005, and competition from cheap natural gas also decreased demand for coal, leading some mines to close or reduce extraction, which further increased unemployment. [1]

4. Mountaintop removal mining - Wikipedia

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   The coal industry asserts that surface mining techniques, such as mountaintop removal, are safer for miners than sending miners underground. [28] Proponents argue that in certain geologic areas, MTR and similar forms of surface mining allow the only access to thin seams of coal that traditional underground mining would not be able to mine.

5. ‘Transformational’ Kentucky renewable energy project on old ...

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   The hydroelectric facility would be on a former surface coal mine in Bell County. ... to develop a renewable-energy project in southeastern Kentucky projected to create about 1,500 jobs during the ...

6. Former Eastern KY mine land could be a solution to housing ...

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   There is a lot of mined land in Eastern Kentucky that could be developed. Coal companies have surface-mined an estimated 1.5 million acres of land in Central Appalachia, which includes Eastern ...

7. Eastern Kentucky Coalfield - Wikipedia

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   The region is known for its coal mining; most family farms in the region have disappeared since the introduction of surface mining in the 1940s and 1950s. The Daniel Boone National Forest is located on rough but beautiful [citation needed] terrain along and east of the Pottsville Escarpment.