¶ … residents of Buffalo Creek were immensely affected by strip mining in a way which was highly negative. As such, this process of strip mining which the Company was doing was very threatening to their way of life. These people lived in very close proximity to the mountain in which the Company was performing strip mining. Essentially, strip mining was causing the mountain to erode. The eroding mountain would make things fall from it, which would destroy the houses and the lives and the livelihoods of the people living in close proximity to the mountain. Therefore, the Company was making profits by destroying the lives of the people who lived near this mountain. This process of strip mining, then, was one of the most detrimental that the Company could have done to mountaineers who lived so close to this particular mountain. The profits for the company or the men employed in this process did not matter so much as the fact that the strip mining was slowly eradicating the mountain that these peoples' homes were predicated upon.
2. The initial protests that the residents of Buffalo Creek engaged in to the American Association -- which was overseas in the United Kingdom -- was to complain in a relatively docile manner. When this proved ineffective they were able to have a television program aired about the eradication of the mountain and the harmful result to their lives. Finally, they threated legal action to...
The American Association was able to parry this maneuver with their own legal representatives, in a way which reflected an exercise of power since the Association and its lawyers were savvy about the process of involving the law in such a dispute, while the community was not. Thus, the Association enacted administrative bureaucracy, reflecting the mobilization of bias and coercion, in which the protest of the community was received after the permit had already been approved. Also, the operator who needed the land permit ingratiated himself to the community by going to church and dropping a lot of money in the offering plate, posing like a humble mountaineer himself. In such a way, the empowered were able to outwit the powerless.
3. The protestors at Buffalo Creek attempted to pressure the American Association a variety of ways. These methods included legal means, through the use of both American and British legal entities, and through the media. The protestors, however did not successfully put an end to environmental destruction caused by strip mining. None of the aforementioned methods were able to produce any desirable effect. What the community was able to do was to investigate the affairs of the American Association's principle owner, Sir Denys Lawson, and determine that his company had defrauded other companies for millions of dollars. All that…
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