The town I live in was the largest coal producing town in the US during WWI. We have over 10,000 acres of barren wasteland, covered with worthless junk timber and weeds that don't even grow, right on top of boney piles and red dog and subsoil that mimics the surface of the moon more than a place on earth.
Before mandatory reclamation, the common practice was to create a cut in the ground, push the overburden up behind the cut, extract the coal, then push the next cut of overburden into the previous one, leaving the first cuts overburden piled up. It creates rings of overburden pushed up in the air 100+ feet high, along the contours of the ground.
Now, our town is near the center of the biggest play in natural gas, in the history of the US. I can tell you first hand that there will not be a shortage of natural gas as long as politicians allow the companies to extract the gas. All the controversy about contaminating water, and polluting the air; surrounds the drilling like flies on... well, you get the picture.
There was no controversy concerning the coal extraction, that ruined our town; because, there were no regulations when the coal was taken from this area. Also, if it wasn't for the coal, the towns around here would not even exist in the first place. It could never happen again, on such a massive scale, to ever dominate the production of natural gas.
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of David Brown Tractors - by Samuel Kennedy. I was born in 1950 and reared on my family�s 100 acre farm. It was a fairly typical Northern Ireland farm where the main enterprise was dairying but some pigs, poultry and sheep were also kept. Potatoes were grown for sale and oats were grown to be used for cattle and horse feeding. Up to about 1958 the dairy cows were fed hay with some turnips and after that grass silage was the main winter feed. That same year was the last in which flax was grown on the farm. Flax provided the fibre which w
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