Mountainsaver and I actually came down there but we couldn’t get anywhere near the site.

I think it says it all about clean coal… coal can never be clean. It is dirty from extraction all the way through ash. I think for people to even think/talk/discuss/argue about clean coal you can’t think just about removing flue gases from the burning of coal when there is still the extraction and the waste disposal.

It is so easy to understand the dirty sides of coal that it just baffles me that supposedly educated people continue to talk clean coal this and clean coal that. They just simply don’t get it and that is too bad for us and our mountains.

TVA sucks. that is not news.

what do you think this says about the possibility of “clean coal”?

you are absolutely spot on with the linkage to Marsh Fork. this sort of thing happened in Knox co TN where there are lots of TVs and news media that can’t really ignore it (although they try, KNS reporting has been dismal particularly in the first days of the event).

when this happens deeper in rural appalachia it gets covered up much more quickly. christmas present?

how do we keep the compromisers from squandering this gift? I am not sure. Fist, air.