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Strip Mining #228424

CBS Evening News for Monday, Apr 09, 1973
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(Studio) House subcmtes. begin hearings on legislature to ban strip mining. West Virginia Representative Ken Hechler says abolition strip mining only answer.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite

(West Virginia) More than million acres Appalachians have been strip mined. Process ruins land. Miners say they now reclaim mined land. Environmentalists say it's impossible to reclaim strip mined areas. [Strip miner Tracy HYLTON - says energy crisis will get much worse if strip mining not allowed.] [Strip mine opponent Joan YOUNG - says strip mining process irreversible.] Strip miners want to begin looking for coal in West next.
REPORTER: Jed Duvall

Reporter(s):
Cronkite, Walter;
Duvall, Jed
Duration:
00:02:40

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