Comments on: FACES of Coal Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot

By: Tina Casey

Tina Casey — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:15:57 +0000

To M. Carreiro: Thank you for sharing this information and please share your class’s insights with CleanTechnica, I think our readers would be very interested to hear what their conclusions are.

By: M. Carreiro

M. Carreiro — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:20:33 +0000

I just saw a FACES Billboard go up in Louisville ranting against those “EPA Bureaucrats” for “locking up” Kentucky coal jobs and had to look up FACES.org to see who their funding source is. Could not find it until I found this web article. Thanks for providing details and links to all sites, both those of FACES and those who are trying to stop AMR! I plan to show both sites to my college class and have them compare and contrast the information, and figure it our for themselves. You would be amazed at the proportion of city folks IN KENTUCKY who have NOT heard of Appalachian Mountaintop Removal still! Horrifying!

By: Saar

Saar — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 08:05:08 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. Here are more coal news:

http://www.ecoseed.org/index.php?searchword=coal&ordering=newest&searchphrase=all&option=com_search

By: hollergirl

hollergirl — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:32:10 +0000

well,

the problem is coal is FINITE! and it is almost gone in Appalachia- 15 years of surface mine coal at best. So – why would a smart person destroy their own future means to attract new industry — such as clean water/ clean streams to fish and swim in?

As a coal miners daughter and 7 generation West Virginian– Coal has kept West Virginia from becoming what it can be- it’s people from becoming prosperous.. Coal is killing West Virginia…

Coal is also poisoning all of the nation. 24,000 people a year die prematurely from coal fired power plants and mercury from coal is causing our children to have autism and low IQ’s and mental retardation — ADHD…

By: Frank Hanlan

Frank Hanlan — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:16:29 +0000

I am amazed that you did not mention the horrendous health problems of people in that area. I saw the film Burning (Our) Future and what struck me is all the serious illnesses of people in the area that are directly attributable to the air and water pollution from the mining processing of the coal. I won’t ever defend the tar sands in Alberta but how can people support the growing ponds/lakes and resultant pollution especially from heavy metals from washing coal?

In addition as I recall they have gone from 50,000 jobs in about 1950 to about 15,000 jobs in about 2000 and it seems it is only destined to go down further. So if the workers are not getting rich who is? Besides owners how many politicians are getting paid by the coal mining companies?