The amazing mayfly mess

The amazing mayfly mess

The reality television show “Dirty Jobs” could have done a segment at the McKinley Park Campground this week. If you think your job is bad, just be thankful you’re not a summer youth worker in Breitung Township this year. This week, the three young workers have had the unenviable task of raking and shoveling up the millions (maybe billions?) of dead mayflies that washed up on the campground’s beach in the wake of an exceptionally prolific hatch of these aquatic insects.

News from Friends of America: Study Finds Cap-and-Trade Will Severely Damage WV’s Economy –

Commentary from Talkline’s Hoppy Kercheval

The general belief based on national studies has been that climate legislation being considered in Washington would be bad for West Virginia’s economy. But now there is a study that looks specifically at the potential impact on West Virginia and confirms the worst fears.

Cap-and-trade would have a devastating effect on our state.

Aerial footage at the Coal River Mountain Treesit

Lawyers, Guns, and Money – song by Warren Zevon

EPA crackdown on mountaintop coal mining criticized as contradictory

By David A. Fahrenthold
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 28, 2010

CHARLESTON, W.VA. — Here in coal country, President Obama’s ambitious Environmental Protection Agency has met its first big mess.

On Inauguration Day, the EPA began a crackdown on “mountaintop” coal mines. The agency has scrutinized about 175 proposed mines, where peaks would be blasted off and valleys filled in with the rubble. It has signed off on only 48.

ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE: YOU IDIOTS: Cap and Trade: “A great big one…I want to get a bill that works…”

Rolling Stone, a music magazine in the same sense that MTV is a music-video channel, was featured on this morning’s edition of Morning Joe.  Their cover story is not about the latest escapades of Kanye West or Lady Gaga; instead, they have chosen to write about global warming.  Before anyone asks, none of the above recording artists (to my knowledge) have recorded a song which would have spawned this article.

Letter to Randy Maggard from Citizen Harry

Randy,
I’ve noticed that you have no comment on how Massey Energy is flaunting it’s power, and using violence to quell the tree sitters that are trying to stop MTR. Blaring air horns that cause ear damage may not seem to be violence to you, but it is the next thing to shooting them with a high powered rifle, which the police could not ignore. Non-violent protest is one of the rights protected by the Constitution of the United States, and this seems to me to be more than just an affront by Massey Energy, but an affront on the Constitution. Ignoring safety is the sub-issue, and Massey is speaking it loud and clear with their horns!

It’s funny how you can blast everything in sight, literally and figuratively, but never comment when it’s so obvious that malicious use of power is modus operandi. Sometimes it’s not what you say, but what you don’t say on behalf of the coal companies that speaks the loudest! Keep up the silence on this topic!

Citizen Harry

Massey arrests man for trying to aid tree sit

PETTUS, W.Va.–A man was arrested on the Bee Tree Strip Mine site while attempting to offer aid to Eric Blevins and Amber Nitchman, two tree sitters taking action to halt blasting on Coal River Mountain. He was trying to send bags up to the platforms with more supplies, but was apprehended by Massey security before he could do so. Yesterday, David Aaron Smith, 23, descended from a third tree. He is being held on a $2500 cash-only bail and is charged with trespass asked to leave, conspiracy and obstruction.

COLBERT REPORT ON CLEAN COAL – Margaret Palmer – more miners would be employed without MTR.

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/261997/january-18-2010/coal-comfort—margaret-palmer

WV Troopers decline to do anything about this sonic assault