Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is under fierce attack for investing hundreds of millions of pounds in US companies which remove the tops of mountains in order to scoop out coal inside.
See http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/environment/rbs-slammed-for-backing-obscene-mountaintop-removal.21040472.
Campaigners blow up a mountain outside RBS AGM
RBS has financed corporations involved Mountaintop Removal, one of the most drastic methods of coal mining, to the tune of $362.5m despite acknowledging the devastating impacts of the process, Friends of the Earth Scotland can reveal. Mountaintop Removal literally blasts the tops off mountains to access thin layers of coal. Communities in the Appalachian Mountains in the USA where the technique has been pioneered report high incidences of severe health problems linked to the toxins released from the coal.
See http://www.foe-scotland.org.uk/node/1600.