"Gamora arrives on Torndune--a once-lush planet that has been strip-mined for the power source beneath its surface--with a mission: collect the heart of the planet. Her adopted sister Nebula is in hot pursuit, determined to claim the planet's heart and shame her sister. Each allies herself with a faction on the planet in order to gain access to the massive diggers capable of drilling to the center of the planet. It's a competition they can never win--unless they learn to trust each other"--Adapted from jacket.
Explores the coal-mining and utility interests that are preparing to stripmine the Northern Great Plains, the issues involved, the struggle with local citizens, and alternatives.
a year in the vanishing wilderness : radical strip mining, and the devastation of Appalachia
Reece, Erik
2006
Erik Reece chronicles the year he spent on Lost Mountain in Appalachia, and the economic and environmental devastation the strip mining industry caused in the region.
