"For over 180 days a year I can be found on the road traveling with my ThinkPad laptop -sweltering in the hot jungle terrain and surviving frigid arctic and mountain blasts, said Pasquale Scaturro, Exploration Specialists, Inc. "From bugs and humidity, to sand and dust, heat and cold, my ThinkPad laptop has been exposed to them all.
The majority of people surrounded one-half of the stage, supporting each speaker calling for an end to mountain blasting.
Despite pleas and protests by local residents, as part of the reckless mountaintop removal plans for Coal River Mountain, Massey Energy is now operating a strip mine near the Bee Tree branch of the mountain, blasting outrageously close to a multi-billion gallon coal slurry impoundment that is held back by a weakened earthen dam.
The crew had the formidable task of laying the track that crossed the rugged Sierra Nevada mountain range, blasting nine tunnels to accomplish this.
No sooner had he finished this series than he turned his attention to mountain ranges, blasting their peaks to ruins through the formal modulations to which he subjected them.
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I've been made speechless twice before: Once, when I went out on the Gulf to see the extent of the BP oil disaster two years ago, and also the first time I watched a mountain being blasted apart for coal.
(Mountaintop-removal is a particularly destructive form of mining in which entire mountains are blasted apart to expose the coal seams inside; the rubble is typically dumped in nearby valleys). Instead of strengthening oversight of this type of mining, the Bush administration proposed last week to loosen regulations and allow it to expand.
And if you're not tired out, rent a mountain bike to blast through the trees on 15 miles (25 km) of trails, jumps and obstacles at WinSport, or head for nearly 500 miles (800 km) of designated paths for walking and biking throughout the city.
