Austin Supports MTR. Mountain Top Removal (MTR) is the least expensive and most environmentally destructive way to extract coal in the United States. America currently derives 10% of its coal from MTR, aka "blowing up mountains in Appalachia." See Steven Colbert's description:http://www.colbertnation.com/t...
Austin & MTR. Today, Austin's coal comes from strip mines in Wyoming. Interestingly though, Austin's strip-mined-coal is provided by companies who also operate mountaintop removal mines in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. According to iLoveMountains.org, Austin's coal plant is one of only six in Texas with connections to MTR. See a Google Earth depiction of Austin's MTR connection:http://ilovemountains.org/myco...
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For more info on the +'s and -'s of Austin's coal use, check out the Fb group: Austin Has a Dirty Secret http://tinyurl.com/austin-face...
