strip mining
Americannoun
noun
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Strip mining, the cheapest method of mining, is also the most controversial, because it jeopardizes the environment, and because strip-mined land is either expensive or impossible to reclaim.
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“There’s already overwhelming evidence that strip mining deep-sea nodule fields will destroy ecosystems we barely understand,” he told BBC News.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2024
Four years ago, Jay Justice issued a news release after the family's coal firms sued the Interior Department over what was then $4.2 million in unpaid strip mining penalties and fees.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2023
Studies suggest that strip mining affects the local mountain hydrology in many places.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 3, 2022
For 25 years, he oversaw the process that may represent humans’ best attempt to date at total annihilation of land: strip mining and mountaintop-removal mining of coal.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 17, 2020
All the other visible hills, including those facing me across the narrow valley, looked to be in good health, except where they had been scarred and gouged by quarrying or strip mining, which was regularly.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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