Saturday, January 21, 2012

Fossil Fuel Extraction Endangered List

The list includes a beautiful fish that the team at Conservation Fisheries is working hard to save:
Kentucky Arrow Darter: Toxic waste from mountaintop coal mining is poisoning streams and killing the rare Kentucky arrow darter fish (and contaminating the drinking water of downstream communities). The arrow darter has been wiped out from more than half of its range.
The full list and story is here...

2 comments:

  1. Makes me wonder when we're gonna start wiping ourselves off the map too...

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  2. Regarding the above comment...we already are. I know they cannot prove cancers, asthma and other maladies that are killing us are caused by man made activities, but we all know without proof in every instance that it is true.

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