Fighting for Appalachia - Stop Mountaintop Removal
I’ve been writing posts for several months, and some people who have visited my site may read some of my posts, but doesn’t have a clue who or where exactly I’m from. So I decided that this is what this post will be about. I’m a Coal River boy, borned and lived my whole life [...]
First, I want to wish the best on this Labor Day, to all the people who go to work everyday and work their tails off, to make America a better place to live in, and securing a future for all genarations to follow. I just returned from a road trip, which took Lenny Kohm, campaign [...]
Carbon capture sequestration is unproven technology, and no one knows for sure if it’ll even work. So I guess they will try the old trial and error act to see how this technology can be introduced. All CCS is, is carbon being injected underground. If they are successful in capturing and injecting this deadly stuff, [...]
While watching Decesion Makers with Bray Cary, and his host Peter Lilly, of Consol Energy, talk about clean coal, and how they have to consider the environment, while cutting down on green house gases. Mr Lilly talks of the new purposed CTL plant in Marshall county, and about that bullshit carbon injection, because, call it [...]
What will happen to the coal industry when people start to see through the lies of their PR firm. What will happen to them when they are unable to steer public opinion in the way they’ve been doing for the last hundred years. What will happen to them when they finally realize that money can’t [...]
When I worked in underground coal mines, it was union, now days mostly non-union. It’s like day and night comparing them. I could go on for days speaking of all the difference between them, since I worked twenty one years as a union miner, and the last eight were non-union. But now days, with just [...]
I have to start by saying that I’m pissed off. After reading what Nick Rahall wrote this past week in the Register Herald, about wanting to listen to what the people are saying, and to serve them, by promoting coal to liquid, is just plain ole bullshit. What part of his family is he willing [...]
In order for West Virginia to build for the future, is to start now. We need to start the transition now. Already along the Coal River there is a study, and a possible option to be offered to a land company, to invest in a windfarm on top of a ridge, proposed to be permitted [...]
With global crisis getting worse every day, and time ticking down to do what we have to do to save our planet, our state and federal governments our still in a state of denial that there is no such thing as “global warming.” We continue to spew 70 tons of CO2 into our atmosphere everyday [...]
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