Comments on: This is “Clean Coal”: Massive Coal Sludge Spill Dwarfs Exxon Valdez Disaster

By: pesach kremen

pesach kremen — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:23:18 +0000

The Coal industry must pay 100% for the damage it causes. It is possible to scrub all exhaust from burning coal and eliminate mercury and carbon dioxide from the end product of combustion. This will require lower dividends and higher energy costs but we have no choice. All companies must be 100% responsible for all damage they cause. Mountaintop removal mining must cease as well. I am sure that in rich areas this would never be permitted, why is it in poor areas?

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By: ChangeDominion.com

ChangeDominion.com — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 04:21:13 +0000

The Roane County disaster should be a wake-up call to all of us who rely on so-called cheap power from coal. Here in Virginia I’m suggesting we all ask Dominion Resources for full disclosure: how many sludge ponds does it have?
Where are they located? How much is in them? What has been done to prevent accidents and possible sabotage? http://changedominion.blogspot.com/2008/12/in-wake-of-roane-country-lets-ask.html

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:38:10 +0000

I live on a south texas ranch. I watch ExxonMobil leak oil all the time. They bury radioactive tank slag. We point out problems and they do not fix them. So, I made a website and posted photos and now they are suing me. You can watch how ExxonMobil really operates up close and personal. I take the photos, I film the videos, I live here. I know how they are.
my website is
http://www.RanchoLosMalulos.com
Almost everything on the site is filmed in the last year. It’s really scary that a major oil company can operate like this in the USA in 2008. But, they do.

By: Trob

Trob — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:10:18 +0000

No mention or coverage on channel 48. FOX NEWS. Way to go FOX, we have to get info
from somewhere else .

By: Celia Andriello

Celia Andriello — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:52:28 +0000

THE BUFFALO CREEK DISASTER is the benchmark book written about what happened in West Virginia in the early 70s. It replicates this 2008 story to a T. Coal mining families live in very poor accommodations, and the miners risk black lung as well as their homes when it rains due to this mining policy that is 100% illegal.
In THE BUFFALO CREEK diasater Pittston Corporation paid millions to the 600 families that either were washed away in the icy slug, and/or watched their children, wives, or husbands be suffocated by the waters’ slug. These dams that the coal companies create through coal waste continue to burn within their pile and therefore cannot create any kind of containment for the waters when they over flow.
The gentleman who imparted his wisdom in the Buffalo Creek case traced back instance after instance throughout the US, and the UK that was done once again this Christmas time 2008. His book has done absolutely nothing to change the lives of these incredible people who mine generation after generation in order for me to respond to this blog, heat my home, refrigerate my food, etc. etc. etc.
The Senators will all make their fained surprised statements to illustrate their horror, but the truth is that everyone of those dastardly Senators that earned their law degree had to read THE BUFFALO CREEK DISASTER in order to earn their juris doctorate.
The problem must never be repeated. The coal companies have been performing in this slip-shod mannner for hundreds of years. It’s time to take them all to task and put the feet of our great elected leaders to the fire. It is time and we can change it, TODAY.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:48:11 +0000

[deleted]: if we forget about the ‘earf’ (i could have sworn it was earTH) we aren’t going to have a place to live. think of it like this: let’s say you own and house and you live in it with your family. do you think you could just live without having to do any upkeep? i mean, you can not do the dishes for a while but eventually, it would be inhabitable. just like the earth (earf?) is going to be. global warming is serious. deadly serious. if we don’t start taking care of our home now, it’s going to be too late. i recommend to all a book called ISHMAEL.

By: R Margolis

R Margolis — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:53:01 +0000

I wonder if the standard of living in Africa were to improve if they would not have larger dwellings?

Besides the ideological debate, there would also be a transition cost to move people out of the suburbs, restructure transportation, etc. My guess is that it would be cheaper to bridge the efficiency gap with lower carbon energy sources than trying to reorganize the US population.

By: AkGru

AkGru — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:02:30 +0000

As an individual directly impacted by the Exxon Valdez oilspill, I can tell you that the people involved here have very little recourse.

Just this year the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Exxon had to pay a 10th of what a 1995 jury awarded to the damaged plaintiffs. The reduced award was recently distributed almost 20 years after the event itself.

The little man does not win in this society.