Comments on: Coal Front Group Sets Up Dirty ‘Blogger Brigade’ To Fight Reality

By: mtflyer

mtflyer — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:58:26 +0000

Thanks for information about the coal sludge contamination. More evidence that the only thing that matters to the coal industry is money, not lives or health. Look at the statistics regarding health care in West Virginia.some surveys rank us as one of the unhealthiest places to live. Look at the death rates from cancer, etc. and compare. Getting compensation for work-related injuries has gotten less realistic thanks to the nature of the legislature and the courts. The basic assumption seems to be that any thing submitted to the court is a “frivolous lawsuit”. Couple this with the attempts to make “right to work” laws the rule and destroy what remains of the unions and the work force will be relegated to no more than slave labor. Let’s change the name to “work till you drop”.

By: mtflyer

mtflyer — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:48:51 +0000

As a lifelong resident of West Virginia I know how our state has been held in a state of virtual feudalism by the coal industry for over a century. The “Friends of Coal” have used their vast resources to perpetuate this. They have run their candidates for Senate and have used their power to buy governors and members of the legislature. They have worked hard to destroy our environment through mountaintop removal mining. They have managed to violate every environmental law with their mine runoff and dumping with the complicity of the Bush administration that has rendered many such laws to nothing more than a joke. Sadly too much of the public here is either involved in these nefarious doings or just doen’t care.

By: jps

jps — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:42:14 +0000

Revoke the hat before more salmon get mercury-sludged!

By: SouthernBeale

SouthernBeale — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 16:04:41 +0000

agahran: Here’s the ABEC link

By: jps

jps — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:13:16 +0000

The power outage in Hawaii gives me an excellent opportunity to explain why coal miners should start mining both iron and lithium. Remember during the campaign how McCain was saying he wanted to give a quarter billion dollars in a battery competition? It turns out Arizona is way ahead in lithium-sulfur technology. Sodium-sulfur cells of have been used for large industrial storage, but they aren't as environmentally friendly. We need to dig holes in the ground to store our nuclear waste dry casks for 300 years or so anyway. 10 terawatts of wind, 10 terawatts of solar, some nice battery tech, and we won't even need to worry about reprocessing the fuel. In 300 years, Harry Reid probably will have retired anyway. The only thing the nuclear lobby has left is that the wind doesn't blow all the time and the sun doesn't shine all the time. Why not help the states buy some uninterrupted supply?

By: agahran

agahran — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 03:24:44 +0000

Hi there

I just checked the ACCCE and AmericasPower sites and saw no reference to the “blogger brigade” you mentioned. From where did you get that information?

Also, lots of people are twitters updates about the Harriman, TN coal ash spill. On Twitter, search for #coalash and #tvaspill

- Amy Gahran