Sulphur River Gallery 31
TXU Mining
Texas Utilities Generating &
Mining Company has been stripmining coal around Mount Pleasant
for the last 25 years. Lakes Monticello and Welsh were constructed,
also destroying precious environmental wetlands, to cool the generators
that power these plants. This water and electricity are not necessary
from a local point of view, as we have plenty of both, only from
the standpoint of profligate Dallas and Fort Worth. Our local
people have been forced from their ancestral homes, under governmental
condemnation, to allow for this stripmining. The mining along
the Green Hill and Harts Bluff Roads has only begun in the last
few years, but they are relentlessly and ruthlessly destroying
our historical landscape in the process.
This is a new mining road about
halfway between White Oak Creek and Mount Pleasant along the Green
Hill Road. All of this will be dug up, mined and put back together
again, looking nothing like the original landscape. And then it
will have to sit idle for ten years to let the ground settle,
before people can build anything on it again. This view is looking
east from a new overpass on the Green Hill Road, which allows
the coal company to move their equipment underneath the Green
Hill Road.
This is a view looking southeast
from the overpass. These large cranes are used to rape our countryside
for coal for Dallas' wasteful squandering of electricity.
This view is looking southwest towards
Winfield. In the distance, you can see a mining crane sticking
up and some freshly mined coal heaped in a pile ready to be taken
by little choo-choo trains to Monticello. Are we having fun yet?
From here to Winfield as the crow flies would be about eight miles,
and every inch of land (even in some places the Interstate Highway
median!) has been stripmined for coal for Dallas' electricity.
Once they dig up all their coal, they don't have enough remaining
"soil" to fill up the holes, which are left to collect
rainwater and form small cattle ponds that now dot the countryside.
We don't need anymore lakes and ponds!
GO TO HELL, DALLAS!
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