Bill McKibben on Clean Coal
Renowned author and environmentalist Bill McKibben's take on the clean coal ads that were run in heavy rotation on CNN by a coal industry-funded group calling themselves American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity:
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Great Video!
"Link TV exists for this reason exactly"
Thank God for LINK TV! ....
How dirty coal treats it's workers
Coal is dirty and I know first hand just how dirty.
They use their workers and promise them lifetime health care, workers compensation benefits (if injured at work so they can take care of their families) but they never keep their promises. They're all lies!
My husband was injured in 2004 and is still waiting to get treatment and the benefits that are rightfully his.
First they gave him a claim # and 3 benefit checks. Then when they got the MRI report and found out that instead of being just an arm injury it was a herniated disc in his neck they promptly cut him off. He was forced to retire so we could put food on our table. After receiving the MRI they said he added an injury. They have ignored medical evidence (a picture is worth a thousand words). After I found out they didn't report his accident to MSHA and they got fined then they changed their story to he didn't report his accident before leaving company property. After being a miner for 27 yrs.with several injuries I'm sure he did report it. If he didn't report it he would not have received a claim # or checks. Now just to get the medicines we need they make us jump through hoops (as well as the doctors) and get the same RX pre-approved every month.
So when you hear someone talking about "clean coal" ask them to show you some!
Thanks from a union, underground coal miner's wife!
As a coal miners daughter
As a coal miners daughter and grand daughter I have an close relationship with coal. Coal Is filthy --from cradle to grave. The industry that mines coal corrupts everything it touches.
Mountaintop removal is blasting our mountains and homes- poisoning our water and air. Then when the coal industry tries to "clean' the coal at preparation plants here--the coal industry pumps the toxic sludge waste into huge earthen dams and into underground mines that finds it's way into our drinking water. It eventually ends up in everyone's drinking water.
Thank God for LINK TV to get the word out---the main stream media is not connecting the dots for people.
Appalachian economy and coal
Appreciate your comments - JW Randolph from Appalachian Voices did a great piece on jobs and coal in West Virginia - lots of good references. Here it is:
http://www.coal-is-dirty.com/blasting-appalachian-economy
healthy crack
Clean coal is like:
Healthy crack
Safe guns
Fun torture
Funny war
Happy prisons
Safe nukes
Did I miss any?
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