Coal wins big in Senate stimulus package? Are You Serious?
Coal wins big in Senate stimulus package CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Coal supporters have managed to tuck more than $4.6 billion in money for the industry into a Senate version of the economic stimulus package. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved the legislation with several coal projects pushed by Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va. The Senate funding [...]
Mine jobs don’t justify…
I’m going to try and make this post as black and white as possible. An article I read a while back had this title “Mine Jobs Don’t Justify Stripping Mountains” – plain and simple, black and white. I started thinking about this again when reading an article this morning and the very first sentence was [...]
Engineering Improbability
Big Stone II Pushes Clean-Energy Alternative The plant also could be built with extra space for “clean coal technology” that could be installed later, proponents said. Such equipment could trap carbon dioxide and send it in a pipe to oil fields in North Dakota or Canada. It could then be pumped underground and used to [...]
Coal’s Inevitable Fate Spawns 2nd Environmental Terrorist Group
Let’s face facts here – coal is in trouble. There is simply no way to paint coal white faster than the green movement occurring right now around the planet. Mountaintop removal coal mining in and of itself is as far away from environmentally friendly as you could possibly get. Forests destroyed (trees cut down, burned [...]
Coal River Valley – Prepped for Mining
It was a trip I had been dreading. I wasn’t going to some mosquito infested swamp or a dry arid desert, it was a simple drive west through the Coal River Valley. I simply do not understand how you can live in this area and not be pissed. I think you people need to open [...]
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