If you said “bad” then you agree with the smarties:
Based on a comprehensive analysis of the latest scientific findings and new data, a group of the nation’s leading environmental scientists are calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S Army Corps of Engineers to stay all new mountaintop mining permits. In the January 8 edition of the journal Science, they argue that peer-reviewed research unequivocally documents irreversible environmental impacts from this form of mining which also exposes local residents to a higher risk of serious health problems.
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“The scientific evidence of the severe environmental and human impacts from mountaintop mining is strong and irrefutable,” says lead author Dr. Margaret Palmer of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park. “Its impacts are pervasive and long lasting and there is no evidence that any mitigation practices successfully reverse the damage it causes.”
In mountaintop mining, upper elevation forests are cleared and stripped of topsoil, and explosives are used to break up rocks in order to access coal buried below. Much of this rock is pushed into adjacent valleys where it buries and obliterates streams. Mountaintop mining with valley fills (MTM/VF) is widespread throughout eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, and southwestern Virginia.
Exanple: Hover Cars, cars that run on water vapor, electric cars.
I think that coal mining is bad and that we should move on with technology and create cars and other vehicles that dont need fule or gas and things like that.
Oops. I meant the song posted waaayyyy down below. BTW, did you come up w/ that yourself? If so, you must have a great sense of humour!
I love the “Save Rocky Top” song posted above! I totally agree with you all on this. I am writing a case for a debate on ending all Mountaintop Removal, and I need some evidence saying that it causes job loss and causes serious health issues. Any help would be VERY appreciated!! Thanks everyone!!
Can you really trust Ron Ramsey as a possible Tennessee Governor to protect mountain ranges and water resources within the Tennessee public lands from strip and/or underground mining operations…? Well, the answer is “NO” – Ron Ramsey would sell us all out for another dime added to either his political campaign or political action committee treasury!
Tennesseans all across the Volunteer State need to ask why coal mining headquarters and sales centers (e.g. Metinvest d.b.a. United Coal Company) are just recently locating into Ramsey’s Sullivan County (which to my knowledge does not have any working coal mines) or related coal industry businesses (e.g. New Tech Mining) are hiring in Blountville for a non-union work force to work in West Virginia underground coal mines.
Metinvest is a giant Ukrainian coal and steel corporation that is buying up U.S. based coal reserves with the intent of extracting these American coal deposits at the lowest cost possible and then EXPORTING this Appalachian coal to Metinvest industires based in Eastern Europe.
Metinvest bought United Coal Company in order to mine and ship Appalachian coal overseas to Eastern Europe — and not necessarily as Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey asserts, to provide Tennesseans with lights whenever we turn the switch on,
The TNGA Millionaire Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey is blocking a State of Tennessee ban on the strip mining practice of mountain top removal is due to perhaps one person – former King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. CEO John M. Gregory who (along with a Gregory brother) is heavily invested in United Coal Company.
United Coal Company moved the UCC corporate headquarters and world sales head into Sullivan County during April 2009, following the purchase of UCC by Metinvest
The World Sales Headquarters for United Coal Company is also now located within Lt. Governor Ramsey’s hometown ov Blountville, Tennessee.
Ron Ramsey on Mountaintop Removal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-WNSIsZl1U&feature=player_embedded
Bill Nye the Science Guy: Climate change deniers are ‘unpatriotic’ | Raw Story
http://rawstory.com/2010/02/bill-nye-climate-change-deniers-unpatriotic/
Frozen water fell from the sky today, therefore thousands of scientists the world over are liars. Just go with it.
That’s the narrative coming from Fox News in their coverage of the heavy snow blanketing the eastern coast of the United States this winter. Thankfully, there’s Bill Nye the Science Guy, ready to explain the complexities of climate science in terms easy enough for even a child to digest.
Nye, however, jacked his assessment of meteorology into the realm of partisanship, scoffing on MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show on Wednesday night that climate change deniers are “unpatriotic” in parroting simple minded, anti-science propaganda.
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“This thing of denying science, you know, science has done so much to make this country what it is: A technological leader,” [Bill] Nye [the Science Guy] said. “It’s improved the quality of life for so many people, here and around the world. To deny what scientists or scientific evidence is showing, is inappropriate. And as I said earlier … It’s unpatriotic.”
Save Good Ole Rocky Top, Tennesseee,
Save Good Ole Rocky Top from Ron Ramsey,
Save Good Ole Rocky Top from Ron Ramsey!
OMG MOUTIN TOP IS BADZZZZ