Kentucky Underground
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Kentucky’s Underground Economy – New York Times
In this New York Times op-ed piece, Bobbie Ann Mason decries exploitation of Eastern Kentuckians and their land. Mountaintop mining is the process of bulldozing the top off of moutains with Caterpillars and TNT and extracting the coal below. The impact on people and land is devastating.
Bobbie Ann Mason is a native of Western Kentucky and an artist in residence at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.
Other articles on the subject:
- “Mountaintop removal mining is turning Eastern Kentucky into a despicable latrine.”
- “It continued to rise until black sludge filled the valley from side to side. Warmer than the cool October air, it steamed.”
- “Lawns were buried over six feet deep in the gooey black sludge.”
- “Many of these valley fills contain millions of tons of soil and rock and are dumped with little regard to effects upon aquatic, animal or plant life, or the human beings downstream.”
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