I Do Not Want Mercy, I Want You To Join Me
Tim DeChristopher is a climate activist and board member for the climate justice organization Peaceful Uprising. Tim DeChristopher, who was sentenced today to two years in federal prison for disrupting a Bureau of Land Management auction in 2008, had an opportunity to address the court and the judge today immediately before his sentence was announced. … Read more
Lies and Truth About Upper Big Branch – “PROFITS TRUMPED ALL”
Profits trumped all, including the safety and lives of 29 miners. That is the clear conclusion of a yearlong federal investigation into the Upper Big Branch disaster. Industry must finally learn its lesson. Congress and federal regulators must ensure that it does. The investigation by the Mine Safety and Health Administration faults the mine’s owner, … Read more
Mari-Lynn Evans: Can We Survive MTR?
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Day was a time to reflect about what this great state means to each of us. It is the place I will always call home. When I was 17, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers declared eminent domain and flooded our ancestral homeland for the Burnsville Lake. It was a … Read more
Top Ten Reasons Coal is NOT dirty by WALT #10: “Clean” Coal Costs Billions in Taxpayer Subsidies
The U.S. government continues to aggressively fund coal-related projects despite all that is known about coal’s impacts on health, climate and the economy. The Department of Energy is currently seeking $648 million for “clean coal” projects in its 2009 budget request, “representing the largest budget request for coal RD&D in over 25 years.” Clean coal … Read more
Top Ten Reasons Coal is NOT dirty by WALT #9: “Clean” Coal Kills Freshwater Streams
The majority of these so called streams are nothing more than dry gullies which are less than a foot wide and six inches deep and only carry water during rain/snow events. If you really want to help the freshwater streams, let’s stop all raw sewage from being dumped into our streams.-WALT
Top Ten Reasons Coal is NOT dirty by WALT #8: “Clean” Coal Destroys Mountains
Can someone show me where they take 1,000 off a mountaintop? Can someone show me a mountain in Kentucky or West Virginia where there is 1,000 feet of relief from the hollow to the mountaintop? If you consider the same area for mountaintop mining, and underground mining you would realize that more jobs would be … Read more
Top Ten Reasons Coal is NOT dirty by WALT #7: “Clean” Coal Pollutes Seafood and Freshwater Fish
Isn’t it strange that states that do not mine coal and states that do not burn coal are having these same advisories as those that do? -WALT
Top Ten Reasons Coal is NOT dirty by WALT #6: “Clean” Coal Wastes Huge Quantities of Water
Are we running low on water? How much water is used to generate electricity in hydro-electric dams? Would you consider this a waste of water? Is the water really wasted, considering the amount of electricity generated by these coal fired power plants? Doesn’t ethanol also use huge amounts of water? – WALT
Top Ten Reasons Coal is NOT dirty by WALT #5: “Clean” Coal Kills Miners
This stat is misleading. The workers who died in 1992 of black lung more than likely started working in the mines in the early 60’s if not before. Even the workers who died in 2002 would have started in the early 70’s. – WALT ————————————————————————————————————————————————– Coal miners are at increased risk for developing lung diseases, … Read more
Top Ten Reasons Coal is NOT dirty by WALT #4: Burning “Clean” Coal is Fuel for Climate Change
First, CO2 is not a pollutant. Secondly our entire atmosphere only contains 0.0039% CO2. -WALT
