On the ground sources at the Democratic National Convention are telling us that people aren't buying the clean coal propaganda being shoveled out by a major coal industry front group at the event.
As many have reported, including here, a coal industry front group calling themselves the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) is spending $2 million over the next couple of weeks aiming their coal is clean and green message at people attending the Democratic and Republican conventions.
One of our sources at the Dem's convention this week is telling us that even people hired by ACCCE to hand out free swag aren't buying into ACCCE's propaganda. Nancy Laplaca with Energy Justice told me this morning that when one of the women hired by ACCCE to hand out free t-shirts was asked whether she believed coal can really be clean, she stated that she really doubted it.
When a guy wearing an ACCCE clean coal t-shirt was asked a similar question, he replied, "hey, it's only a t-shirt."
Ouch.
ACCCE will also be in St. Paul for the Republican convention next week.
Here's some facts on the dirty side of coal.
Poor Health Condition in My Community from Coal
Hi,I live in Eastern Kentucky,where Coal is King,I would like everyone to know,how dirty
the Coal is in communities where the coal is mined,Everyone talks about the polluion from coal fired plants,that to is nasty.I just want people to not forget about the people where the coal is mined.We have many coal trucks every day come down off the mountain tops down thur our neigborhoods,sometimes as many as 100 loads a day at times 5 and 6 days a week.My front door is nomore than 15 feet from the road these trucks travel to coal preparation plant where the coal is cleaned by chemicals that eventually end up in our streams late at night,when no one is so called inspecting.Cancer in Eastern Ky.is very high.Please go to the roots of before coal fired power plants,go to where it really begans,at the mines,and it's effect on communities,Please don't forget us when people talk about about coal fired plant being nasty to the enviroment,I'm telling you it is very bad on our health and enviroment.Everyone turn's a blind eye and deaf ear to what really is going from it's origin.As I began to talk about the coal trucks that pass by my home and the home's of many people,they track mud,rock dust and coal dust and blow deisel smoke thur our communities,all which causes many kind's of cancer,do a search on each one and see for your self,they cause many kind's of cancer,we have been exposed to this for many year's.The people at cleancoal.org are seeing the real coal minning.I have exhausted my self with contacting state and federal people about these issue's,I have tryed to get other people to get interested form other parts of the U.S.with no luck.The Kentuckian's for the Commonweath,is one group but they really don't get no immediate help,they try to change the laws for years all the time it gets worse and worse.Please get help to HighSplint and Closplint Kentucky
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