this spring quarter professor bernhard debatin, ph.d., ohio university, taught a class on environmental and science journalism. athens and its mining history became the focus of the students' projects. as professor debatin put during the public presentation of the projects yesterday, the area is almost like swiss cheese because a huge area around athens consists of mines underneath, sometimes two or three on top of each other.
the students investigated abandonded mines and acid mine drainage, clean coal, bottom coal ash as a potentially dangerous but neighborly meant gift on the streets, air pollution by mercury, how mining uprooted people and starts to uproot one of ohio's old growth forests.
all stories show how the mining industry of the previous century and energy production today are impacting our environment, our health, and our homes.
don't miss out on this great series of well-researched stories about coal, which we walk upon daily but is often forgotten in an event-driven news culture.
ADDENDUM: Just in case you missed the link in the comment section. A friend of mine brought my attention to a blog that was established this May to report about the effects of the coal mining industry in South East Ohio. It features stories about the Millfield mining disaster, fires in New Straitsville, abandoned mines, acid mine drainage among a few others.
http://seocoalmining.blogspot.com/
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Stine, Kristen in our online journalism class also set up a blog about mining in Southeast Ohio. http://seocoalmining.blogspot.com/
ps. You left message on Ash's blog that it was so ideal of her to put up a post to answer my questions. Actually, i also had a post for your complaint about Front Room:) http://frontroomglamor.blogspot.com/2009/05/not-good-place-for-movies-reply-to.html
Thank you for sharing the link to your class mates blog. I will add it to the post.
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