Posted on 12/20/2009 4:51:08 PM PST by AAABEST
It was the slap heard 'round the coalfields: Cordelia Ruth Tucker, wearing the fluorescent-striped shirt of a miner, strode past West Virginia state troopers and into a stream of marchers protesting mountaintop removal mining to deliver an audible smack.
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There have been nearly 100 arrests in 20 protests, most involving trespassing. Led by a new group called Climate Ground Zero, the activists have chained themselves to giant dump trucks, scaled 80-foot trees to stop blasting and paddled into a 9 million-gallon sludge pond. They've blocked roads, hung banners and staged sit-ins.
Virginia-based Massey Energy claims a single 3 1/2-hour occupation at Progress Coal Co. in Twilight cost the company $300,000.
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Massey equates anti-coal with anti-American. Pittsburgh-based Consol Energy blames the planned layoffs of 482 miners on a lawsuit by the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition.
Activist Chuck Nelson, a former underground miner from Glen Daniel, said the longer surface miners face uncertainty, the more the danger grows: The federal government must act soon, one way or the other.
And if the EPA comes down on the environmentalists' side?
"Well," Nelson said, "there's a possibility it might not be safe to live in the Coal River Valley."
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Yea I know the miners are good ol union guys, but let me get this straight: Coal miners are going to cut their own throats, go green, and put their entire familes futures in peril to back Algore?
I’ll still take the miners over the Gorebots.
This is BS! An average coal miner makes about $40,000 per year after 15-20 years experience. When my dad retired back the 1990s, he earned about $36,000 during his last year of work, and that was after about 35 years in the mines and on strip jobs running a D9 dozer on the high walls.
I imagine that they could put them in some places that, in few millions years, see the nuts turned into coal. Tar works of course. :)
i doubt the Molly McGuire's would put up with their crap...
You don't know what the hell you're talking about...
Self defense is not murder.
Environmentalists are genocidal maniacs.
A lot of what people do is “no way to live.” But that’s by the sissy standards of the New World Order. A lot of what it takes to sustain live is brutish and nasty. But food must be killed and processed and sewers maintained and toilets cleaned and vomit cleaned up and wounds cleaned and sweat and danger handling large heavy equipment and people die doing their jobs. Disney et al. have created a santized view of the world. Kids now don’t know working 16 hours a day to get a crop in and falling down on a cot to get up and do it again. None of these people in the DC swamp get it. Life is hard. Because of the cheap energy we (THE USA!) set a new high ground and a moment in time when most of the population was entirely unaware of the difficulties of getting the stuff they used daily. Well if we let them get away with their stupid legislation we’ll all learn soon enough just how tenuous is human life on this planet. And a coal miner’s job won’t look so bad.
Then explain Byrd and Rockefeller.
These envirolibs don’t even qualify as people. They don’t even deserve to be treated like animals.
They are a disease.
BTTT
These leftists POS are threatening the financial welfare of their families and their children.
Eventually one of the miners will snap.
Hence one of my favorite shows, “Dirty Jobs.” Rowe has done at least one great show on coal mining, too.
There’s a difference?
I'm not a miner nor do I have any mining knowlege. I just quoted this in my response.
And just because the UMWA bent over for Obama, that does not necessarily mean coal miners did, judging from the 2008 election returns for coal mining regions in SWVA/WV/Eastern Kentucky...
Um, they did just that by largely voting for Obama. I know, it’s baffling. Or is “insane” the proper term?
Or one of the wives...they can be really vicious when their families are attacked, economically as well as physically.
No they didn’t. See #57 above...
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