Big Coal Rides Again….
Denny over at The Backwoods Drifter has another report on the damage being done by Massey Energy and the likes in West Virginia.
… brought to you by the coal industry.
The more I talked with people in Drews Creek the more it became obvious they didn’t have a clue about the new mountaintop removal site. It was just like one day there is peace and quiet and the next day your picking broken picture frames up off the floor and wondering how many explosions it will take to knock your house down.
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If I have to start 20 websites - I’m going to hang the coal industry’s dirty laundry all over the internet. The new mountaintop removal site in Spring Hollow - now you are on my turf - just try to keep my camera away. I can get to the site a half dozen different ways.
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Don Blankenship, Bill Rainey, Roger Lilly - ignorance defined.
Make sure you check out Denny’s other blogs: Bolt Mountain and Stop Mountaintop Removal
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March 26th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Thanks for the plug Brian - it is appreciated. That is the first time I have seen a trackback in action.
March 27th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Yet another benefit of having wordpress installed on your own server
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:44 am
“GOING FROM COAL TO NUCLEAR IS LIKE GIVING UP CIGARETTES TO TAKE UP SMOKING CRACK”.
We Need NEW Clean Renewable CHEAPER DE-Centralized, off the Grid, NON-Monopoly energy.
Hey Pennsylvania ….
Wanna BUY an old obsolete nuclear power plant? YES? OK, then, just VOTE for Obama.
The nuke industry is planning to build 29 new nukes. ONE in Pennsylvania
(See Map at NY Times LINK: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/washington/31nuclear.html?_r=1&oref=slogin )
Excelon Corp, (largest nuke operator on the planet) headquartered in Illinois, has been one of Obama’s largest contributors ever since he first ran for office.
Obama voted FOR the Cheney Energy Bill of 2005 (H.R. 6) - which ENABLED the nuke industry to start planning to build nukes. (No new nukes have been built for the past 30 years because the banks would not loan the money - too risky.)
The Cheney Energy Bill solved that problem for them by GUARANTEEING Taxpayer PAYBACK of any of the nukes loans that default (The Congressional Budget Office rated the risk of default on the nuke loans at 50% or greater).
Here’s the kicker: Obama has been getting BILLIONS of Dollars worth of FREE Sales PROMOTION -Campaign HELP- From: NBC & MSNBC, and CBS … because GE owns NBC/MSNBC and Westinghouse owns CBS.
(If you check on the NY Times MAP you will see that GE & Westinghouse are planning to build the reactors at most of the planned nuke sites.)
That’s the reason WHY the media has been rabidly PUSHING to SELL you an Obama & slamming and smearing the Clintons
COPY & PASTE and Pass the Word to everybody on your email list and to any blogs, TV, Radio, newspapers you can.
p.s. McCain is pro-nuke too & voted FOR the cheney energy bill.
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Hey elme thanks for your comment! I hope you will check back often for other post.
I don’t think nukes are the way to go either, but they are a little better than coal(minus the dangers of accidents and the half lives of the waste we have to store for eon’s.
I agree, we need renewable energy. We need to be investing in wind and solar systems. The cost of generating electricity from wind has dropped significantly in the last 15 years, making it comparable to the cost of using fossil fuels.
Solar on the other hand is still quite high. If we could get a candidate that would push money into more solar research, we can get its rates down there too.
I’m a conservative who feels that neither of the 3 current candidates are a good choice to lead the nation. However, I have to say that McCain is the only choice we have left. The other 2 are just pure evil.