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This 5 page paper discusses the problems endemic to the West Virginia Coal mining communities in regard to the practice of Mountaintop removal and the ensuing pollution, threat of flooding, and economic devastation. This paper has an extensive annotated bibliography which includes sources from nationally syndicated investigative reporters as well as professional journals to congressional testimony. Also included are the ways in which a social worker might organize the communities around this issue. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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slated for development these days has been funneled toward expanding or urban sprawling. Most City Commissions have continued to approve these projects as if sprawl was only a problem in
large metropolitan areas. However, taking the example of Southern West Virginias mountain removal issues it is clear to see that now is the time to bring investment back to the
existing neighborhoods, to halt urban sprawl, and to instead retrofit existing communities within this process by garnering support and organizing forces from within the community itself. But how is the
average social worker to undertake such a task? Like everything else, communities that get stretched (as in sprawl) often snap, and then it becomes very hard to put the pieces
back together again. Southern West Virginias counties include, McDowell, Wyoming, Logan and Mingo counties. These communities now face new development at the core of their historically sprawling areas, developments that
could make or break the whole concept of a commons for these communities(Chaskin, 2001). Other dangers that are posed from the removal of the mountaintop, experts state, include floods, unemployment,
and leaves no provision for the aging population of these areas(Meadows, 2001). It is no more symbolic, it can be said, than to view one of the dragline machines in
operation on the top of a mountain. Standing nearly ten stories high, this machine is capable of leveling even the tallest of mountains in a matter of months(Mccurley, 1996). This,
too, is what can be said to be happening to the people in Southern West Virginia at the hands of the large corporate machines who seek the coal and mineral
deposits which are located under these mountains. Money seems to talk, and most of the people living in these affected communities have had decades of dealing with the man. While
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