Two Thumbs
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I'm all for cheap, safe electrical power. I'm also for a safe, clean and sustainable environment. Then support your local nuclear power plant!! Safest on the planet.
Strip mining is a terrible way to extract coal. It scars the land permanently. It ruins the aquifer and surface water supply and leaves a barren wasteland devoid of the natural forests which were cut away to expose the soil. If this was true, wouldn't there be more dead people in WV, from all the poisons?
Mountain top removal is a suicide pact. Taking the tops from the mountains and depositing them in the valleys making West Virginia not "almost Heaven" but "almost level". Suicide pact? Did you take a double dose of "Overkill" pills this morning?
I sit on the Marcellus Shale deposits which could provide an abundant source of natural gas. But, in most cases, to extract the gas, drilling operations must fracture the geologic substrate with hazardous fluids which pollute the ground water supply. That's been debunked. Fracturing occurs below the water line.
We have been extracting coal from deep mines with varying degrees of success for years. Some of the newer techniques (like 'long wall' mining) have proven more destructive than necessary.
There are ways of getting our resources from where they are to where they are needed. Doing it safely for the workers and the environment is the important job before us. *ahem* nuclear
I'm and environmentalist and I don't want to put families out of work or shut down a whole industry for the sake of a lizard. These are cheap and unreasoned claims made by the right. Why? I could only speculate. spotted owl comes to mind.
One reason might be those making such claims have no vested interest in the environment at the point of resource extraction. They can sit back and create convienient fiction to bolster their position that the economy trumps safety. Others just want to score some cheap political points. I suppose that's because they have utterly failed to inform themselves about the dangers of wreckless expansion without regard to safety of workers and the environment. The only way to curb expansion is a mass die off of the human race. Unless you want vast sky scrapers built.
But if I keep assuming why righties make such claims, I would be guilty of the same ignorance and short sightedness they are guitly of.
This is my take on this.
The left is pushing and pushing green energy, w/o any evidence, not to mention no proof, that it can work on a large scale.
There is no energy source that someone on the left is not against.
none
They hate coal, and make up shit about it poisoning the water.
Hate oil b/c BIG oil makes money. fyi; it's less than the government makes off of it.
Hate nuclear, b/c we have to store the waste. [there's not that much]
hate wind b/c it kills birds and changes migration
hate solar b/c of glare pollution
hate natural gas, well you mentioned the fiction of that yourself
hate damns b/c you have to change the land scape
If I missed anything, let me know and Ill tell you why you are supposed to hate it.