What is clean coal?
In the United States today there are groups of individuals bound and determined to paint coal white. They use terms like clean coal and carbon capture like they are preaching the gospel. Many people will say there is no such thing as clean coal, including myself… let me explain. Clean coal, as preached by the [...]
Behind Enemy Lines
One of my favorite quotes of all time – “A bold onset is half the battle” – that is the truth in the battle against mountaintop removal coal mining. I think just facing those that feel threatened by a voice has been half the battle. The other half of the battle is as difficult. I [...]
Carbon Capture and Storage – A Good Idea?
Lake Monoun, West Cameroon, West Africa – In 1984 carbon dioxide (CO2) bubbled to the surface of the lake from a geothermal vent killing 37 residents in nearby villages. Two years later, 1986, a similar incident occurred also in West Africa, Lake Nyos. In this instance the lake was said to have become saturated with [...]
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- Bringing Down the Mountains: The Impact of Mountaintop Removal Surface Coal Mining on Southern West Virginia Communities, 1970-2004 Shirley L. Stewart Burns (pdf)
- GAO – SURFACE COAL MINING Financial Assurances for, and Long-Term Oversight of, Mines with Valley Fills in Four Appalachian States
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