Posted by Brian W on May 12th, 2008
I’m currently reading “The Battle of Blair Mountain” and it is turning out to be quite the history lesson of West Virginia, the labor movement and the corruption of government at all levels- most of which probably isn’t in any history books that our students read at school. I’m only half way through it, but [...]
Posted by Brian W on April 24th, 2008
I saw this on my Yahoo homepage the other night and couldn’t believe my eyes. Big Oil is investing in clean energy technology.
Billionaire oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens plans to invest 10 billion-yes thats BILLION with a B-dollars to build what will be the worlds largest wind farm. His company, Mesa Power, will [...]
Posted by Brian W on April 12th, 2008
Not sure if this is true, but I found this info at Sludge Safety Project:
April 14, 2008: 6:00 p.m. The DEP has granted an informal conference to hear objections to the Massey Energy’s (Alex Energy) Edwight permit 130 acre expansion (Amendment 1 to S301299, already 1,849 acres). It’s at 6:00 P.M. at Marsh Fork Elementary [...]
Posted by Brian W on April 9th, 2008
Most readers here and supporters of the cause to end mountaintop removal already know about the plight of Marsh Fork Elementary in Sundial, WV. For those that don’t, I’ll briefly touch on the issues before getting down to the grit of this post.
As you can see in this image taken in 2005, the school [...]
Posted by Brian W on April 3rd, 2008
Just today I received a comment on my blog from the post “Big Coal Rides Again”. Apparently the commenter thought that if am against coal, then I must be for nuclear power.
They also stated;
We Need NEW Clean Renewable CHEAPER DE-Centralized, off the Grid, NON-Monopoly energy.
I couldn’t agree with that more, except that I don’t [...]
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