“Dominion provided a lavish buffet of barbecue, chicken strips, beans, mashed potatoes, hot dogs, corn on the cob and local Colorado peaches and smores for desert. There was also an open bar. Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) and Democratic Senate candidate Mark R. Warner attended, as did West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin (D) and Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell (D).”
Now we know why Mark Warner doesn’t want to touch ANWR (which looks like a moonscape) or drill offshore (environmentally sound) He wants to keep his sugar daddy’s happy.
Dominion Power has no problem with using coal extracted by blowing up mountain’s nor do they mind scarring the Piedmont with mammoth transmission towers
The Dems can harp about Dominion back here in Virginia, But while in Denver they have no problem throwing their tough talk out of the window.
The really ironic twist is the fact that eco-harpy Robert Kennedy Jr also attended, It’s almost as hypocritical as John Edwards charging poverty groups $50,000+ for a speech.
I Support Coal Mining, I come from a SW-VA Coal Family, But this is different from underground mining.
Mountaintop Removal mining is wrong in every way for the Appalachian’s:
It hurts local economy by cutting jobs and destroying the habitat that is needed for Deer and Elk to flourish, attracting the Hunter’s and Fishermen that spend money in local business’s,
It endangers residents by causing floods and poisoning groundwater.
It permanently destroys the beautiful mountains of Virginia and pollutes our rivers. Any Politician in favor of this practice should in my view be tarred and feathered.
But the most ironic quote from the democrats was this “The view was stunning, the most gorgeous view, and those rocks,” Sen. Yvonne B. Miller
I’m glad you enjoy the view Sen. Miller, Because if you keep up the two-faced rhetoric, There won’t be many good views left in Virginia.
H/T WAPO
Mountain top removal, or strip mining as it’s properly known, done correctly and legally pose none of the dangers you expressed.
There are also many benefits. Look to Logan WV as an example. After the strip mines were closed acre upon acre of developable land was suddenly available, providing a much needed industrial park for wood products industries as well as a huge retail center. And the jobs that go along with each.
I remember traveling to work each morning, passing through a working strip job on the KY border with VA, and watching the elk graze upon the newly created fields.
True, There are short-term benefit’s to strip mining, But the permanent damage is too great to allow this to continue, all of the benefits you mentioned can be accomplished without strip mining.