Black rivers and flattened mountains

Toronto Star: Coal mining ravages Appalachian mountains
I often read dreary stories about environmental disaster, but this one made an unusual impact. The scale of destruction nearly incomprehensible, with entire mountains razed, floodwaters black with coal debris, and houses rendered uninhabitable. Just as shocking are the stories of those who are being attacked, threated, and intimidated for simply trying to protect their own homes.

The brake lines on her truck were cut. Her dog was shot and left at her 17-year-old son Jessie’s school bus stop. Last October, 200 bullets coming from the mountainside splattered around her in her yard, she says. She gardens now in a bullet-proof vest.