Comments on: Sen. Byrd’s Comments on Coal: Amazing or Just Incredible? http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/12/03/sen-byrds-comments-on-coal-amazing-or-just-incredible/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Sun, 06 May 2012 08:12:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Billy Edd Wheeler http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/12/03/sen-byrds-comments-on-coal-amazing-or-just-incredible/#comment-83439 Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:38:00 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/?p=14904#comment-83439 A great speech. People near mountain top removal sites are being disregarded while suffering all kinds of assaults on their health and quality of life. Often when protesting with amazing restraint they are arrested and fined. Sen. Byrd’s speech lays it on the line, speaking where West Virginian public officials stand mute and give silent nods of approval to King Coal operators. But it is not a negative speech, calling only them to task — it’s a balanced speech — from a man who, in spite of his age, is a very fine thinker and orator. As a West Virginian who has written songs about the mountains I love, and the wonderful people who live there,I am proud of fiddle-playing Sen. Byrd.

PS: Once, in Washington, with a group of publishers and song writers, we had an audience with Sen. Byrd. So I took the opportunity to ask him about his fiddle. He told me it was made from a West Virginia tree, and the Latin inscription inside read: “Once I was a living tree. Now, being dead, I serve a useful purpose.”

]]> By: Susan Stewart http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/12/03/sen-byrds-comments-on-coal-amazing-or-just-incredible/#comment-83395 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:23:42 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/?p=14904#comment-83395 ditto wow

]]> By: Colin http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2009/12/03/sen-byrds-comments-on-coal-amazing-or-just-incredible/#comment-83392 Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:40:26 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/?p=14904#comment-83392 Wow.

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