The strip mining machines used in Alberta come from a Caterpillar plant in Decatur, he said.

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Organizations like Waterkeeper and ILoveMountains have fought against companies like Massey Energy, while lobbying for tougher federal restrictions on strip mining and so-called ash ponds.

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Strip-mining, a form of open cast mining, has devastated whole sections of this landscape.

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At present, the Soviets are wantonly exploiting this natural resource using irresponsible strip-mining practices and causing serious environmental problems.

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This creative strip-mining could arguably help the TV show's chances it's not like Hollywood has been shy about doing crossovers between videogames and films before.

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John Lennon and George Harrison quickly became deeply disillusioned with life in the Beatles, while even Paul McCartney, now strip-mining his own back catalogue in stadiums around the world, spent years attempting to step out of the band's shadow.

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Last year, for instance, a group of British and American investment funds beat off an attempt by the French government, for political reasons, to strip a French mining company in which they held shares of a licence to dig in Canada.

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Dozens of mining companies are trawling the narrow strip of land abutting its 44, 087-kilometre coastline for diamonds, gold and rubies and possibly more exotic treasures.

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In Avatar, indigenous groups gather with the help of a handful of foreigners (from Earth) to fight off a marauding mining corporation looking to develop a strip of land on a site holy to the locals.

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