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Has Anything Really Changed in the Last 100 Years?

I’m currently reading “The Battle of Blair Mountain”  and it is turning out to be quite the history lesson of West Virginia, the labor movement and the corruption of  government at all levels- most of which probably isn’t in any history books that our students read at school.  I’m only half way through it, but [...]

Big Oil Going Green?

I saw this on my Yahoo homepage the other night and couldn’t believe my eyes. Big Oil is investing in clean energy technology. Billionaire oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens plans to invest 10 billion-yes thats BILLION with a B-dollars to build what will be the worlds largest wind farm. His company, Mesa Power, will begin [...]

Marsh Fork Elementary “Conference”

Not sure if this is true, but I found this info at Sludge Safety Project: April 14, 2008: 6:00 p.m. The DEP has granted an informal conference to hear objections to the Massey Energy’s (Alex Energy) Edwight permit 130 acre expansion (Amendment 1 to S301299, already 1,849 acres). It’s at 6:00 P.M. at Marsh Fork [...]

Marsh Fork Elementary | Pennies of Promise

Most readers here and supporters of the cause to end mountaintop removal already know about the plight of Marsh Fork Elementary in Sundial, WV. For those that don’t, I’ll briefly touch on the issues before getting down to the grit of this post. As you can see in this image taken in 2005, the school [...]

One Alternative to Mountaintop Removal – Wind

Just today I received a comment on my blog from the post “Big Coal Rides Again”. Apparently the commenter thought that if am against coal, then I must be for nuclear power. They also stated; We Need NEW Clean Renewable CHEAPER DE-Centralized, off the Grid, NON-Monopoly energy. I couldn’t agree with that more, except that [...]

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