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UK Coal Controversy Continues

November 4, 2009 – 5:12 pm

A little over a week ago, the University of Kentucky and Alliance Coal announced plans to name a new men’s basketball dormitory after a dirty, planet- and culture-killing fossil fuel known as “coal,” sparking campus protests that have elicited virtually no response from the university’s board of trustees and its figurehead, UK President Lee Todd, despite [...]

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Pro-Coal P.R. Ramping Up

October 5, 2009 – 2:01 pm

What is going on here? Big Coal is actually so concerned about tree-climbing activists that they’re spending oodles of money to drown cries of opposition with half-baked, stock footage platitudes … since when did hippies command that kind of attention? From the Lexington Herald-Leader:
HAZARD — Environmentalists’ campaigns against strip mining and coal-fired power plants have [...]

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Flustered Massey Sues Treepeople

September 30, 2009 – 5:51 pm

Corporate python Massey Energy has filed suit against the latest sign-wielding human to bring its destructive mountaintop removal mining practices to a halt. From the AP, reporting in Morgantown, West Virginia:

Massey did not immediately comment on its cases Wednesday, but court filings suggest the protesters are having a measurable, if minor, impact on the bottom [...]

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Coal Ash = Death

August 21, 2009 – 11:02 am

Researchers at Duke University have discovered that coal ash — that viscous by-product of coal-fired power plants — is extremely detrimental to living, as samples taken from last December’s disastrous Kingston, Tenn., spill have been found to contain high levels of arsenic, mercury and radium — things you really don’t want to be breathing.
“Our findings [...]

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KY Green Economy Says “Hi,” Leaves Party Early

July 9, 2009 – 4:52 pm

According to a new report released by the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies, 8,750 new jobs and $1.7 billion dollars in economic activity can be generated in central and eastern Kentucky via those sustainable “green-economy” alternative-energy jobs Your President is always babbling about. However, the Eastern Kentucky Power Cooperative (EKPC) holds dominion over this 87-county [...]

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Disturbing Scene From Appalachia

July 9, 2009 – 2:20 pm

As we approach that barbecue soaked, bile duct-loosening event known, colloquially, as the Fancy Farm Picnic & Oratory Thunderdome, one issue that will certainly be out in full force is mountaintop removal (MTR) mining.
To postulate an obvious political equation: The current landscape in Democratic Primaryland dictates that supporters of the practice will likely be Daniel [...]

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Lovely News About Coal

June 29, 2009 – 8:31 pm

Not really. In fact, quite the opposite; the EPA has released a list of the 44 most hazardous coal ash sites that will KILL YOU in the name of industry and job creation.
Coal ash, a product of burning coal, is kept in liquid or a slurry, in containment ponds or dams. The EPA lists more [...]

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Critical Massey

March 27, 2009 – 2:30 pm

Massey Energy is sacrificing one of its own in what appears to be a rare occurrence of reality actually being heeded by King Coal. Reversing an earlier plea of not-guilty, Massey foreman David Runyon will instead plead guilty to one misdemeanor count regarding the tragically lax safety procedures at the Aracoma Alma Mine No. 1 [...]

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So Much For Those Hallmark Sales

March 26, 2009 – 2:53 pm

More depressing numbers ahead: The February unemployment rate in the Bluegrass has exceeded 9% for the first time since 1986 (when Ronnie was following Nancy’s astrological Day Planner, the Challenger space shuttle exploded, and gas grew on trees), and is up from January’s relatively sunnier 8.8%. Given our state’s largely undereducated workforce, the fact that [...]

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‘Clean coal harnesses the awesome power of the word clean’

February 26, 2009 – 11:33 pm

www.thisisreality.org

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