Making molehills out of mountains

An area of Hale Gap, Virginia, being
strip mined with mountaintop removal.
(Michael Temchine for The New York Times)

The headline actually reads: Bush's 'parting gift to the coal industry'

The Bush administration is set to issue a regulation on Friday that would extend the coal mining practice of mountaintop removal. The technique involves blasting off the tops of mountains and dumping the rubble into valleys and streams.

To be fair it states it "extends" the practice. But I've never been one to buy into its always been done that way logic.

This is raping the earth without equivocation.

Via International Herald Tribune.