barclays Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 10 Apr 2015 05:47:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Barclays Stops Funding Mountaintop Mining https://www.greenoptimistic.com/barclays-mountain-mining/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/barclays-mountain-mining/#respond Thu, 09 Apr 2015 08:47:03 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=54220 Could this be the death knell for the controversial coal mining practise of mountaintop mining? Barclays, a British multinational finance company has quietly announced it will cease to fund any companies wanting to use mountaintop removal (MTR) to mine for coal. Mountaintop mining is a contentious issue, particularly in the Appalachian Mountains in the US. […]

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