Mountaintop Removal Good For The Environment??
Posted on February 18, 2010 | By Denny Tyler | 5 Comments
Just when I think I have heard every ridiculous statement the coal industry and their puppets have to say about the so-called benefits of mountaintop removal I open an email alert and read this little gem from Congressman Zach Wamp of Tennessee -
Coal Companies Help Environment by Blowing Up Mountains, Wamp Says
“The way it’s done today is very responsible. We need an all-of-the-above energy strategy in our country, and we need all the economic opportunities that we can bring to our state. This is done in a responsible way. I sat around a campfire in Campbell County with all the experts–biologists, geologists, fish and wildlife–and it’s actually good for the birds, and good for the environment, good for our natural environment in this state to actually mine coal in a responsible way. It’s not a bad thing. It’s a good thing. We need the energy.”
I’ve been trying especially hard on this blog lately to keep my posts toned down but after reading this I’m afraid I have lost a little ground in that regard. Congressman Zach Wamp you are the definition of an idiot. There is absolutely nothing about coal, no matter the form of mining or the context, that comes anywhere near good for the environment. If good for the environment were the Yin coal would be the Yang, a complete and total opposite.
I’ve never seen Congressman Wamp but for some odd reason I picture him as an ostrich with its head up the coal industries a**.
In all of my trips to mountaintop removal sites, both active and reclaimed, one thing that is very noticeably absent is the sound of birds. Maybe I am misunderstanding Wamp. Maybe he means the mountaintop removal sites give the birds a good place to fly over and take a crap which would result in a cleaner environment for the birds in their natural habitat.
It’s no wonder the US Government is in such a sad state, we are being governed by educated idiots with their pockets full of coal dust.
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POST UPDATED -
The spelling for Congressman Zach Wamp has been corrected. My apologies for the misspelling, I was using the spelling provided by the quoted article.
I’m also updating this post with some links.
Zach Wamp caught up in national controversy
Rep. Zach Wamp, C Street and Their Secret Cult-Like “The Family” All the While Feigning “Huh?”
As the Republican Party implodes the public is becoming aware of a secretive Christian society known as the Family or the Fellowship. The group was founded in 1935 in opposition to FDR’s New Deal and its adherents subscribe to a far right Christian fundamentalist and free market ideology. A minister named Abraham Vereide founded the Family after having a vision in which God visited him in the person of the head of the United States Steel Corporation (no, I’m not making this up). The Family has a connection to house on C Street in Washington, D.C., known simply as C Street. Officially registered as a church, the building serves as a meeting place and residence for conservative politicians.
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I hope folks in Tennessee are paying particular attention. Rep. Wamp caught my attention simply because of his uneducated, self-imposed blindness to the truth about mountaintop removal and the environment.
As I said previously in this post – there is nothing about coal good for the environment unless, of course, it is left buried in the ground. I feel pretty confident that point is unarguable.
In this country today we continue to see our democracy falling by the wayside in favor of corporate politics. We began our country as We the People and ever since then we have spiraled at times seemingly out of control towards the inevitable… We the Corporations. Isn’t it about time We the People stand up and say enough is enough. Secret pacts and power politics be damned… WE WANT OUR VOICE BACK!!!
There is only one certainty here, I can’t do it alone.
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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February 19th, 2010 @ 12:44 am
no doubt this man is a fool in innumerable ways. there is a paper that says that cerulean warblers use some reclaimed surface mines. that’s about it. in the hands of a liar that could easily be twisted into “Makes the lions lay down with the lambs” and all this other happy horse manure. Really, any early successional habitat is good for cerulean warblers. There are tons of sightings along overlooks on the blue ridge parkway and there ain’t speck one of coal up there. Looking forward to poking holes in this clown’s circus balloons in the near future.
don’t tone it down son TURN IT UP!!!!!!
March 3rd, 2010 @ 11:28 am
Zach Wamp absolutely lacks critical thinking skills. His comments about TDEC regulators with the support of the Tennessee Municipal League have people in Chattanooga railing and writing letter. I do not believe for one minute that he has a clue about sustainable development. Google Zach Wamp C Street.
March 4th, 2010 @ 7:24 pm
Zach is not really an “educated idiot”. His morality requires belief, not knowledge.
March 5th, 2010 @ 7:16 am
PG Agreed, he has no real education base, and morality has served him well in THE FAMILY at C-Street. Sorry, but I want someone representing me that is not a source of embarassment on a regular basis. Ney Ney, will Washington Wamp be governor of Tennessee, just pay attention my friend and watch resonable people prevail over zealot behavior.
March 5th, 2010 @ 2:43 pm
Thanks for the heads-up April.
I will definitely be paying attention with great interest and I do hope to see “reasonable people prevail”.