Fossil+Fuel+Extraction

//Today's world remains heavily dependent upon the burning of fossil fuels in order to meet the mounting energy needs of an ever-growing and an increasingly industrialized world. While most of us are well aware of the damaging impact that buring fossil fuels has upon the environment (air pollution, smog, global warming, etc), what about the impact of extracting these resources? What are the costs associated with just removing this raw material from the Earth. Read, listen to, and view the following articles, interviews, and cartoons concerning fossil fuel extractions and consider the raging controversy between the need to provide energy to the masses and the equally pressing necessity to protect the environment.//
 * Impact of Fossil Fuel Usage **

="Quakes Caused By Waste From Gas Wells, Study Finds" NPR's Christopher Joyce reports on the recent study connecting earthquakes to hydraulic fracturing. =



[|"West Virginia Strip Mining," NPR's Dan Heyman Reports on the Controversy Surrounding the Mountaintop Removal Strategies Adopted by Bush Administration]

  ** [|"Rule Change Makes It Easier to Dump Mining Waste," NPR Report by Elizabeth Shogren and Melissa Block] **

[|"New EPA Review Prompts Anxiety Over Mining Jobs," NPR Reporter Scott Finn Investigates the Controversy over Mountaintop Removal Mining Practices]