Home > Galleries > Austra-Appa Coal

Austra-Appa Coal (55 images)

 Next >

  • COAL RIVER MOUNTAIN.From the overlook on Bolt Mountain the most bio-diverse temperate forest in the world blankets the oldest mountain range in the world -- Coal River Mountain has become a rallying point for the battle to end mountaintop removal coal mining.


  • A PAINTED PICTURE.Just as the dark clouds of a Spring thunderstorm roll through, the remnants of the once pristine Shumate Hollow defy description. This is how we get electricity. The ridge from where this image was shot is no longer has been removed.

  • Aerial photograph of coal sludge impoundment at Blue Pennant, West Virginia. The impoundment is situated above the town of Sylvester in Raleigh County, WV.

  • Sylvia Bradford shows how much coal dust accumulates inside her home by wiping her fingers across her television screen after two days of not dusting. Bradford lived all of her life in the Edwight, a once thriving coal-based boom-town, that like countless have faded away..

  • Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia.Australia is the world's largest exporter of coal. Coal mining in areas like the Hunter Valley in NSW is destroying land traditionally used for vineyards, horse breeding and nature reserves.


  • Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia.Australia is the world's largest exporter of coal. Coal mining in areas like the Hunter Valley in NSW is destroying land traditionally used for vineyards, horse breeding and nature reserves.

  • The home of Donald Leon "Don" Blankenship in southern Mingo County as seen from Williamson, West Virginia.

Next >