http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/20/9071/

Published on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 by The Independent/UK
<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-mountain-that-lost-its-top-831037...>

The Mountain That Lost Its Top
It�s the one environmental crime that no US politician will confront
� the destruction of Kentucky�s mountains. Leonard Doyle visits the
Appalachian peaks being blasted by Big Coal

The road slicing through the thickly forested hills of eastern Kentucky
used to be called the Daniel Boone Parkway . It was named for the
controversial American folk hero who fought his way across Indian
country to settle a state where many of his descendants still live.

That was before the coal industry began blowing up the Appalachian
Mountains as a cheap way of getting at the black stuff below, behavior
decried by the environmental group Appalachian Voices as one of the
greatest human rights and environmental tragedies in America's recent
history.