Being an anti-coal activist leaves you with mixed emotions. Frustration, anger, triumph, joy, sadness and, of course, amazement at the ability of the coal industry to get away with spinning their offensive bull#*@t into mainstream consciousness.
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Bird-Dogging the Coal Barons
Peabody's Boyce Explains to Congress that Clean Coal is the Solution to Global Warming
Dirty Business
A Film Investigation of the Coal Industry
Growing Resistance to Coal in the West
Coal Fights Spread Westward
Most publicized on this site and in the media is the epic battle being waged by the movement against the coal companies laying waste to Appalachia’s Mountains. It’s also fought and stopped over half of the coal fired power plants proposed by the Bush-Cheney energy plan.
Duke's Coal Tax on North Carolina
Duke Seeks to Tax Customers to Finance New Coal Plant
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Australians Shut Down Giant Coal Export Terminal
Climb Team Occupies Coal Loading Equipment for Over 36 Hours
I got forwarded this from some of my friends down under. Daring, bold and inspiring Australian Greenpeace direct actionistas have shut down one of the largest coal export terminals in the world with lockdowns and a climb team on the Queensland coast.
Early in the morning, they entered the facility. The climbers scaled a 50 metre coal loading machine and have been there over 24 hours dangling like fruit bats. The lockdown team was cut out.
No more 'No New Coal'?
Thanks to the good work of the Sierra Club and a large coalition of
western and Utah organizations, the phrase ‘No New Coal’ may have gone
WAY out of style today. The Environmental Appeals Board of the EPA just
ruled that the EPA has the authority to establish a Best Available
Control Technology (BACT) limit for carbon dioxide.
Cross-Pollinating the True Meaning of Coal
Maine Artist Collective Creates Visual Tool for Coalfield Organizers
The Beehive Collective, a Maine-based artist collective known for creating beautiful pieces of movement related visual art, are in the process of making a graphic about "The Story of Coal." After months of research, travel, conversation, sketching, deliberating and head-scratching, the Beehive Collective began to put together a complicated visual narrative that begins with coal 360 million years ago, travels through the streams and earth right into the global crisis known as climate change.
Coal is Over, Mate!
Aussie climate activists step it up on the Coal front
A few years ago, I took some time to travel through Australia. While there I made friends with a number of Aussie climate activists and did a bit of organizing with them. They are beautiful people doing brilliant work.
Australian coal amounts to about 30% of the emissions coming from coal worldwide. They are selling it like crazy to East Asia. Australia is also deeply impacted by climate change (drought, rising sea levels etc).
Harry Reid is Right, Coal is Making us Sick
Check out this smokin' hot youtube video posted yesterday in which Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) states that "coal makes us sick."
Here's a quick transcript of the Reid video:
Reid: "We talk about cost competitiveness, but one this we fail to talk about is the costs that you don't see on the bottom line. That is, coal makes us sick. Oil makes us sick. And this global warming is ruining our country, it's ruining our world.
You've got to stop using fossil fuels. We have for generations taken it out of the earth, carbon out of the earth and put it in the atmosphere and its making us all sick. Its changing our world."
