It\’s Getting Hot In Here

Elisa from the Meigs Community Action Network (MeigsCAN) occasionally sends me insights from life in the coalfields. She lives within 10 miles of 4 coal-fired power plants, 3-5 more proposed, and a mining operation that threatens to destroy her property. I wish y’all could get her messages firsthand. Here are a couple teasers:

I told them they AEP has taken too much from us already in externalized costs and took pictures of emissions blowing across our soccer field giving kids respiratory issues when the nearest hospital is 45 minutes away in a county with a disproportionate number of people without health insurance, costs of damage to roads from the logging trucks coming in to clear-cut for mining and overloaded coal trucks, etc. But I also took them a great big old bag of power plant waste.

They kind of laughed and clapped about it and we had some fun with it. But seriously, this has got to stop. We’ve paid ENOUGH.

Power Plant Pesto
Good recipe -

Be mindful about where you plant your cilantro. It has the same chelation effect on the environment as it does on your body – and the coal, I mean goal, is to eliminate more than you consume. Cilantro has been proven to chelate toxic metals from our bodies in a relatively short period of time. Combined with the benefits of the other ingredients, this recipe is a powerful tissue cleanser.

The full Elisa Effect:
We had a PUCO meeting in Athens last night. On top of making ratepayers pay for IGCC construction costs, AEP wants Ohio ratepayers to fork out an additional $71 million for transmission lines. They haven’t slammed us yet with sequestration costs, but it’s coming.

Aside from telling PUCO that if they make the wrong choice and award AEP their request, there had better be a plan in place to repay us – in the form of grants for individual homeowners, businesses, to install renewables…

I told them they AEP has taken too much from us already in externalized costs and took pictures of emissions blowing across our soccer field giving kids respiratory issues when the nearest hospital is 45 minutes away in a county with a disproportionate number of people without health insurance, costs of damage to roads from the logging trucks coming in to clear-cut for mining and overloaded coal trucks, etc…went on and on…

But I also took them a great big old bag of power plant waste. Bottom ash and slag as big as golf balls that I collected from our road complements of AEP.

We had an inch of snow here last week – all it takes to justify them dumping more PPW on us insead of storing it as hazardous waste. Been doing it 50 years now.

When I was done with my testimony, the PUCO’s attorney, Greta See, asked me to make sure all the pictures I’d took were in the right order. So we went through them – clear cutting, roads, PPW, emissions across soccer field, farm…she was meticulous.

But when I went to hand her that bag of waste, she wrinkled up her nose and said, “Oh, I really don’t want that!”

So I slammed it down on the podium and said, “You know what, neither do I!”

They kind of laughed and clapped about it and we had some fun with it. But seriously, this has got to stop.

We’ve paid ENOUGH.

Power Plant Pesto
Just wanting to share our yummy method of Chelating.
UNITY
Heavy Metal Toxicity
Heavy metal poisoning is rampant. It is believed to be a major cause
of hormonal imbalances, cancer, thyroid problems, neurological
disturbances,learning problems, depression, food allergies,
parasites, etc. This is a great recipe that is not only easy to make
but also really yummy,and it tells you how to remove heavy metals
from the body!
Cilantro is truly a healing food. One friend suffering from high blood
pressure due to mercury poisoning had her blood pressure return to
normal after eating two teaspoons of this pesto daily for only a week.
So whether you need to detoxify heavy metals from your body or just
wish to use it as a preventative measure, 2 teaspoons a day is all you
need to take. This pesto has now become a regular in my diet. Enjoy!

Cilantro Chelation Pesto
4 cloves garlic
1/3 cup Brazil nuts (selenium)
1/3 cup sunflower seeds (cysteine)
1/3 cup pumpkin seeds (zinc, magnesium)
2 cups packed fresh cilantro (coriander, Chinese parsley) (vitamin A)
2/3 cup olive oil or flaxseed(I use cold pressed olive because flax rancids to fast)
4 tablespoons lemon juice (vitamin C)
2 tsp dulse powder
Sea salt to taste, Real Salt or Celtic Sea Salt
Process the cilantro and olive oil in a blender until the cilantro is chopped.
Add the garlic, nuts and seeds, dulse and lemon juice and mix until the mixture is finely blended into a paste.
Add a pinch to sea salt to taste add a couple of drops of essential oils and blend again.
Store in dark glass jars if possible. It freezes well, so purchase cilantro in season and fill enough jars to last through the year.
Cilantro has been proven to chelate toxic metals from our bodies in a relatively short period of time. Combined with the benefits of the other ingredients, this recipe is a powerful tissue cleanser.
Two teaspoons of this pesto daily for three weeks is purportedly enough to increase the urinary excretion of mercury, lead and aluminum, thus effectively removing these toxic metals from our
bodies. We can consider doing this cleanse for three weeks at least once a year.
The pesto is delicious on toast, baked potatoes, and pasta.