Coal’s Inevitable Fate Spawns 2nd Environmental Terrorist Group
Posted on January 14, 2009 | By Denny Tyler | 5 Comments
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 and/or buried), mountains blown apart, streams buried, habitat destroyed, water table poisoned – to name just a few negative impacts. If environmentally friendly were the Yin – coal would be the Yang, a complete and total opposite.
They call themselves Citizens For Coal a not-for-profit organization.
I have a few things to say to/about these people. First of all – coal is all about profit. You cannot promote coal and stress it as being not-for-profit. That would be like making a Pampers commercial – just for the hell of it.
Like the Friends of Coal, the Citizens for Coal should show their true colors right up front. They are Friends of MTR and Citizens for MTR. These groups were born out of strong opposition to mountaintop removal coal mining. Obviously they can’t show their true colors because to be a Friend of or Citizen for Mountaintop Removal – well, that’s just blatant insanity. That would mean you were proud of being an enemy to your neighbor. It would mean you didn’t care about the homes being destroyed by the blasting (as long as it isn’t yours). It would mean your train of thought runs along the lines of – the wildlife will just have to find somewhere else to live and then you shoot them when they get in your garbage. It would mean you care only about a paycheck and think nothing of what you are leaving for our children. I bet these people watch WVU football on Sunday then go blow the mountains up on Monday. GO MOUNTAINEERS!!! Can you see the irony?
The Friends of Coal and the Citizens for Coal are environmental terrorists. The cut down huge swaths of forest either burning and burying or just burying all the trees. They use tons of explosives to tear the mountains apart at the seams. They take all of the debris and fill valleys burying streams and everything else. And the most disgusting thing – they do it for money.
I found it interesting and maddening that the Logan County Commission was the first to give to the new not-for-profit pro-MTR group. That means their constituents are paying for an activist group through tax dollars regardless of where they stand on the issue. There is something seriously wrong with the system when such an obvious misuse of taxpayers money is allowed to happen. This state’s government is crooked from the ground up.
Mr. Roger Horton (Citizens for Coal) – this blog will be watching you closely. I’m curious how fast it will take for more coal industry influenced government bodies to show support for your ignorance. One question – how do you sleep at night knowing your sole purpose in life is to deceive? Welcome to a growing list of people that are simply sorry excuses for human beings.
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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January 14th, 2009 @ 8:39 pm
Pass the hat, Preacher Denny has the spirit moving through him, and is on a holy roll.
Amen, Preacher, Amen!
January 14th, 2009 @ 9:27 pm
Spot on observations. People in Logan County against MTR should be out-of-their-minds mad that their tax dollars are being used in such a political, biased manener. Another great post, Denny!
January 14th, 2009 @ 11:55 pm
Awesome post Denny!! Right in every sense of the word and to the letter. “Go Mountaineers”~What do you think our name will be in the not-to-distant future? I love reading your blogs. You always tell it like it is and it’s not always what they want to hear.
January 19th, 2009 @ 12:43 pm
I’ve tried to reach my sahm audience with this message. So many people outside Appalachia, even in, don’t realize the magnitude of these atrocities. Thank you for a great site, hope to send some traffic your way!
January 20th, 2009 @ 6:06 pm
Geez, that bit about the Logan County Commission being the first to give is startling. Figures though. I bet they have to screw their socks on.