The Last Mountain Questions
An Analytical Instrument
Robert Guzman Sosa
INCO 4025, Ethical and Technological Aspects of Technical Report Writing
1. Why was Robert Kennedy Jr. invited to look at the mining practices in West Virginia?
2. What do the coal...
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The Last Mountain Questions
An Analytical Instrument
Robert Guzman Sosa
INCO 4025, Ethical and Technological Aspects of Technical Report Writing
1. Why was Robert Kennedy Jr. invited to look at the mining practices in West Virginia?
2. What do the coal companies do to the mountain tops of the local forests?
3. Who is Bill Raney and what does he say in defense of the company’s activities?
4. What are soil substitutes? Do they really replace natural soil? Explain.
5. What happens to the rain water when it falls on the broken mountains? How does this affect the
people who live in the lower regions?
6. Why did the coal mining companies call the flood damage an Act of God?
7. How old are the communities that live around Coal River Mountain?
8. Why are these activities so important to them?
9. Describe Mountain Top Removal Mining and its effect on the Appalachian Mountains?
10. Why are heavy metals, lead, arsenic, so dangerous for the health of the people?
11. Who is Jennifer Hall-Massey? Wh
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