The Coal Industry And The Environment
Posted on April 11, 2008 | By Denny Tyler | 2 Comments
This post is a continuation of the last post.
Something you will hear the coal industry and the friends of coal talk about all the time is how they are dedicated to the environment around mountaintop removal sites. Most of the time it takes just a very little effort to prove the coal industry wrong in that particular piece of propaganda.
The photos in this post were taken right at the top of the road in the photo in the last post. These are gallon jugs that used to be full of bar and chain oil for chain saws and their related garbage. All of the jugs I did pick up still contained at least a pint of oil and some of those had even leaked onto the ground. In this one area there were ten of the jugs with a couple more back down the way I came. These will end up as part of a valley fill.
Our remnants of wilderness will yield bigger values to the nation’s character and health than they will to its pocketbook, and to destroy them will be to admit that the latter are the only values that interest us. – Aldo Leopold
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April 12th, 2008 @ 9:12 am
and at the stream buffer zone hearing, the coal representatives had the gall to say that the coal industry were the biggest environmentalists out there, and they leave the land better than when they found it!!!!
these pics basically sum up their attitude towards the very land that sustains us…. blatant disregard.
April 12th, 2008 @ 11:19 am
I’ll tell you what I thought as I stood there. The workers were not there on foot. They were at the very least in trucks, it would have been so easy for them to clean up their mess if they had any intentions of doing so.