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October 27, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- appalachia, coalmining, coalriver, coalrivermountain, dirtycoal, dirtyenergy, massey, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, obama, solar, wind
Let me get this straight. President Obama, touting his administration's support for clean energy, visited Florida yesterday to tour the DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center, with its solar panels sprawling across 180 acres that can generate power for 3,000 homes. Yet on Coal River...continued→
October 26, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- appalachia, bowebb, coalmining, coalriver, coalrivermountain, dirtycoal, massey, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, obama, westvirginia
Bo Webb is a proud and patriotic American who lives in Appalachia. A former Marine who fought for his country in Vietnam, Bo resides in the Coal River Valley of southwestern West Virginia. For years, he has fought for the region he loves as coal...continued→
October 26, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- appalachia, brushyfork, dirtycoal, marshfork, massey, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, westvirginia
The message was like a punch in the gut: "The blasting has begun." Coal River Mountain in southern West Virginia, heretofore America's "most endangered" mountain, is now under assualt by Massey Energy, the nation's fourth-largest coal company and the worst offender...continued→
September 29, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- cleanenergy, climate, climatebill, climatechange, climatelegislation, coal, coalmining, dirtycoal, dirtyenergy, dirtyfuels, donblankenship, globalwarming, massey, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR
"Turn on more lights, burn more coal." -- Don Blankenship Don Blankenship is the CEO of Massey Energy, the largest coal producer in Appalachia and the most notorious perpetrator of mountaintop removal mining. Mr. Blankenship, known as "the scariest polluter in America", makes millions of dollars...continued→
September 8, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- appalachia, climate, coal, coalmining, dirtycoal, donblankenship, massey, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, simplesteps, verizon
Yesterday, thousands of miners and their families trekked to the top of a reclaimed mountaintop mine site in West Virginia to celebrate Labor Day at a free concert and picnic organized by Don Blankenship, CEO of the nation's fourth-largest coal company. The event, essentially a political...continued→
September 3, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- appalachia, coal, dirtycoal, massey, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, simplesteps, verizon
Just as the Fox network is the undisputed television home for conservative political ideology, is Verizon Wireless setting itself up to become the right-wing's exclusive phone provider? Despite all of its attempts to bill itself as a "green" company, in the face of tens of thousands of...continued→
September 2, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- climate, coal, dirtycoal, massey, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, simplesteps, verizon
In response to my post yesterday about Verizon Wireless sponsoring Massey's anti-mountain, pro-coal Labor Day rally, a firestorm erupted on Verizon's Facebook page. (If you're in the mood to chuckle, just scroll through the angry catcalls from the climate-hater crowd in the comments section...continued→
September 1, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- climate, climatebill, dirtycoal, donblankenship, massey, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, verizon
As a long-time customer, I was appalled to learn that Verizon Wireless has hopped into bed with Don Blankenship, chairman, CEO and president of Massey Energy, one of the largest coal companies in America and one of the driving forces behind the...continued→
June 1, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- coalriver, dirtycoal, massey, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR, wind, windpower
Last week, the Mayor and City Council of Keyser, West Virginia formally endorsed a proposed 23-turbine Pinnacle Wind Farm, a $125 million project that will generate an average of $432,000 in annual local taxes, create 150 construction and six permanent jobs, and help...continued→
February 6, 2009
Posted by Rob Perks in Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- massey, mountaintopmining, mountaintopremoval, MTR
Although the price of coal is unfortunately up compared to historical levels, I found it interesting that the financial website Motley Fool singled Massey Energy out as a risky investment. To wit: "Of all the deep-value prospects within the embattled coal-mining sector, I...continued→
