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meJess · F
Depends what land they take, people also need to eat.
ElwoodBlues · M
@meJess Actually, most US & Canadian coal comes from open pit strip mines like the ones pictured above in the original post. If not backfilled, the bottoms of these pits tend to fill with toxic leachates; not very nice land use.







