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Today I met a man ( around 60 yrs old) wearing a shirt that read Clean Coal on the front and Abundant, Cheap and Clean on the back. As I passed him I asked " Did Santa Clause bring you that shirt? " He replied "F#*kin' treehugger" I laughed as I walked away. How lucky was this man that I don't believe the marijuana B.S. either.
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41 responses // National disaster, right under our noses.

  • Absolutely hideous. They should be stopped immediately. Someone should build a plant that manufactures solar panels in West Virginia. We have exploited that state and it's people for generations. It's time to set them free.
    Marilynn_Murray
  • Utterly grotesque.Yet another argument for regulating industry in this country.
    pissedoffinarkansas
  • I agree, with all the environmentalist hubbub about generating less carbon emissions in our lives, this is a great place to focus on.
    speed_the_collapse
  • Big coal is a cancer on America. It has brought nothing but poverty and death to Appalachia. They must be stopped. A study I recently read stated that Appalachia is perfectly suited for wind and solar. Yet,even the presidential candidates for the two moneyed parties are walking around this country touting the advantages of "clean coal" as they pander to industry just to get the big chair. It matters not who is corronated this year, they will be hearing from me EVERY DAY regarding their complicity in the cancer and death of Appalachia until it changes. Until they call for solar power in Appalachia to lift it and its people up and denounce "clean coal" as the sham and scam it is against the American people and this planet.
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    JanforGore
  • It is so sad that MOUNTAINS are disappearing!!!
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    shroomfairy
  • Yes the candidate talk clean coal except Ralph Nader... Nader wants solar and wind and to stop coal and Nukes.. But when they play his interviews on CNN it is preceeded by an exxon Commercial and a clean coal ad... imagine
    infoart
  • How many wind turbines would we need to equal the amount of energy coal generates?

    I think people get so sucked in on this solar stuff that they don't understand how much more it takes to get the same amount of energy. Paying more is not what people want now days. No matter how clean it is....feeding the family is far more important than clean.

    You may argue that it's better to have clean air to live longer, but when one has a family to protect and raise, food is priority and money gets food and if all that money goes toward making wind turbines to produce less energy than coal...well...who wants to have starving children but a clean Earth? Environmentalists.
    J_Jammer
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  • Don't trust these "clean coal" stunts! This industry is destroying America and it's people!
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    christopherwalls
  • I'm surprised they haven't made the Rockies into a plateau...this is horrible!
    WorldPeaceTV
  • How many Jammer? Not so many we couldn't do it, so our hungry children could breathe clean air and maybe cut the number of autistic children. Enough to revive our sagging economy maybe?
    Marilynn_Murray
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  • Clean coal is an oxymoron.

    The fact that it's destroying the Appalachian Mountains is nothing short of tragic. I've driven through those mountains countless times as a child with my parents on the way to Myrtle Beach and it's really one of the most beautiful places in the country.
    SpookyFish
  • Who is Santa Clause? Some grammatical or legalese saint? I know of Santa Claus, but Santa Clause?
    Vierotchka
  • Strip mining is a crime against Earth, against nature, against humanity.
    Vierotchka
  • The citizens of West Virginia were paid for this coal through the mineral rights they sold for their property, The government of West virginia enforced the parameters that the Big coal companies followed as they mined these deposits. No laws were broken as this mining was done. Our corporations big or small are not criminals. If they are found to be they pay fines, reparations, and sometimes jail time. It is true that both the people and the government of West Virginia were not aware of the consequences of their agreement.
    So it is the duty of the citizens of West Virginia to learn from these mistakes and elect lawmakers that can be trusted to protect their lands from this type of mining.
    It is my duty to leave the issue in the hands of the people and the government of West virginia. Or. petition the Federal government to pass laws that supercede West Virginia law to stop these mining practices in this area. Unite and petition is a right garanteed by our constitution however you should also remember that apathy is also a right garanteed by the same document. So don't care don't vote is the reason that big coal still has a voice in Washington and Charleston. If we don't raise our voice, except to complain individually, who's voice do they hear? West Virgina is proof that we, as citizens have been negelectful to our country. We as a people must participate or we have no excuse for the affairs we are in.
    soberwood
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  • http://current.com/items/89056181_blasting_the_appalach...
    Blasting the Appalachian Economy
    ~~~
    From the article at the link:

    Over the last 30 years in Appalachian coal country we have seen more than 1 million acres of some of the most bio-diverse forest in the world destroyed, more than 1200 miles of vital American headwater streams buried and polluted by mountaintop removal mining waste, and over 474 mountains blasted to rubble by mountaintop removal coal mining (check out Appalachian Mountaintop Removal in Google Earth ).

    All the while, coal companies have promised up that while there may be some environmental trade-off to mountaintop removal mining – it was SURE to bring great jobs and prosperity to the region. But while many corporate zillionaires from outside the region have profited mightily off of our resources, the Appalachian people have learned that mountaintop removal does the same thing to our economy that it does to our beloved mountains.

    In 1995, Harvard economists Jeffery Sachs and Andrew Warner discovered a clear negative relationship between natural resource-base exports, including agriculture, minerals, and fuels, and GDP growth.

    They dubbed this phenomenon "The Resource Curse."

    Of the 95 countries they investigated, only two achieved a 2% annual GDP growth rate between 1970-1989. A more common occurrence was increased poverty, warfare, and civil strife.

    Electric power generation pulled in more than $380 billion in 2005. More than half of that electricity generation came from coal.

    If we’ve been mining coal for 150 years...why are the people of Appalachia among the poorest in the country?
    JanforGore
  • Coal is clean, war is peace, freedom is slavery...

    IT'S CRIMINAL.

    soberwood: The laws they are breaking are bigger than politics. It's a crime against HUMANITY to destroy the Earth in such a rampant, greedy, disgusting manner.

    Who do you work for anyway?
    onechance
  • I'm from timber country. I lived in this area all my life. I grew up with the smell of gasoline and sawdust in my nose and the sound of chainsaws was a regular event in my life.

    We stopped the timber industry from completely devastating our mountain forests and while I wasn't actively out there doing it, I voted every way I could to re-tool my state for different industries before it was too late. It was hard on us all. A lot of good people lost their jobs and family sawmill businesses had to change to survive or fade away. Whole small towns had to go through crisis and rebirth. We did it for the good of us all and it was worth it. Even in the economic down-times of the Bush years our area is teetering along just barely in the black instead of below the line.

    I had no idea that the Appalachians were under this kind of devastation. PLEASE Appalachian people DO something to save your homeland before the corporations destroy your rich and important history completely! Right now there is still time to stem the damage but in the near future there won't be anything left but wasteland.

    I'll be pushing/pulling my senators and congressional reps on your behalf too. Re-tool from Coal before you lose what makes the Appalachians so important! It's one of the cornerstones of the USA's identity and we need you to make the choice to lead the nation to stop it.
    Stradius
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  • I wish you people would leave JJammer alone!
    It's hard to be perfect AND right all the time.
    Maybe you guys aren't in love with your reflection or don't need argumentative prejudice to validate yourselves,... but at least JJ knows that change is for idiots, and money is everything.
    Leave him alone, or so help me, we'll have to read more of his self-righteous personal attacks. (yes, this counts,... sorry)

    Now,... go on JJ,... where were you?
    "Everybody else is wrong because........................"
    PajamaDan
  • That's right one chance

    Waris Peace
    Freedom is Slavery
    Ignorance is Strength

    Big Brother is busy!!!
    amirct3
  • How the hell can this get 26% no votes. Identify yourselves you fascist murderers.
    victimofcoal
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  • Man, it's getting ugly out here.
    Stradius
  • This is a big environmental problem someone needs to look into it .
    powerup
  • Wait until you find out that electric cars and better energy solutions was available to people at that time. What about the controlled news that made such a hype when miners got trapped into these caves. They never brought up the fact that these people were stack way back in the past of energy harvesting and the pollution they were leaving behind. I am personally, never have been against riches, money, or jobs but I am totally against bad industries bad jobs and bad business. The sad thing it is that some group of powerful people are still making the same mistakes Today.

    "Concentration of money and power in the wrong hands corrupts everything!"
    stopnoise

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