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Cost-Effective Mountaintop Base Installations
2013-07-18 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Army projects at Fort Hunter-Liggett use modular precast systems for effective, low-cost installations in remote, high-altitude locations.<br /> <br /> Full of mountains, rivers and forests – and dotted with airstrips and live-fire ranges – U.S. Army Garrison Fort Hunter Liggett is the largest Army Reserve installation and the eighth largest in the Army. Its 165,000 acres of unencroached territory offer ideal maneuver areas for today's training needs, supporting year-round joint, ...This story is related to the following:Concrete Panels | Precast Concrete |
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Five Arrested at Mountaintop Removal Protest
2013-05-24 17:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: This morning, three residents of Central Appalachia and two supporters with Mountain Justice chained themselves to an industrial tank of black water in front of Alpha Natural Resources headquarters in Bristol, VA, to protest Alphas mountaintop removal strip mining and coal slurry operations across the region. All five blockaders have been arrested. Im risking arrest today because mountaintop removal has to end now for the future viability of Appalachia, said Emily Gillespie of Roanoke, VA,...
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Federal Appeals Court Hands Foes of Mountaintop Mining a Partial Victory
2013-05-01 18:26:26| ENR.com: Headline News
But remands decision on merits of the case to the lower court
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Mountain-Top Removal Mining: Now Threatening Wisconsin!
2013-04-25 00:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Deep Green Resistance: A proposed iron mining effort would create the largest open pit mine in the world in northern Wisconsin.The 22,000 acres of mountain-top removal-style strip mining would potentially dump millions of tons of waste rock into the headwaters of the Bad River, polluting everything downstream including beautiful Copper Falls State Park, the Bad River Ojibwe Reservation, crucial wetland Kakagon Sloughs, and Lake Superior. Many local residents fear that the huge mine will eat into nearby sulfide-mineral...
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Study outlines overlooked impacts of mountaintop removal
2013-04-19 15:37:12| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Charleston Gazette: Mountaintop removal is having frequently overlooked impacts on forests, biodiversity, climate and public health, and an updated federal review is needed to more fully examine those issues, according to a new study by government and university scientists. The study warns that mountaintop removal is not only causing significant changes in the Appalachian topography, but also could be worsening the impacts of global warming. Authors of the study, published in the peer-reviewed journal BioScience,...
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