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   Patty Posted 10:31 am
   22 Aug 2007

   Thanks for speaking out!

   To the Steele family, thanks for having the courage to stand up and speak out. Not many mining families, living in the middle of this destruction have the guts to stand up and speak their minds.
   You also have raised a fine young man to refuse to be taken to an mtr site for Earth Day!
   I'm sure you are very proud of him and I know he has a strong constitution as well as strong values.
   Its not easy to be in the minority and still speak out in your community!

   Thanks for helping save what's left of Southern WV.

   I'm also the wife of a disabled, underground, union coal miner.

   Patty

   Coal is dirty from cradle to grave. Don't believe the lies the coal industry tells.

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   Vernon Posted 11:00 am
   22 Aug 2007

   Mountaintop removal

   Thanks so much for a whole family with the courage to speak out!  Way too many people sit on their hands and say "There's nothing we can do..."  Please, everyone, make your voices heard.  There are more of us than you think.  In fact, about two thirds of West Virginians oppose MTR.  It's time to rise up and show your OUTRAGE at one industry's domination of our state, trampling of our rights, and devastation of our future.

   Living in a mix of mountain heaven and mountaintop removal coal mining hell in WV. Down with Big Brother!

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   JMG Posted 1:27 pm
   22 Aug 2007

   Well, speak of the devil

   He just proposed to make MTR a permanent fixture of the landscape, no pun intended.

   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/23/us/23coal.html?ex=13455 ...

   Save the world: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions 5% annually.

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   JMG Posted 4:04 am
   23 Aug 2007

   And on that subject

   Great comment from "The Reality-Based Community" blog: http://www.samefacts.com/archives/energy_and_environment_ ...

   At the end of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the renegade wizard Saruman has been hanging out among the hobbits while the big adventure of undoing Sauron goes on at the center of the action. He spends his time doing mean-spirited damage to the environment, cutting down all the trees and generally wrecking the landscape, until he's driven out. I keep thinking about that episode as stories like this pop up; pointless evil and mischief as the clock runs out on an administration whose hangers-on and enablers are incapable of seeing anything green that isn't printed on the back of money. Isn't this the perfect monument to this gang of verbrechers; devastated landscape as far as the eye can see, the most greenhousy, toxic fuel burned as fast as we can dig it up, complete abandonment of the Republican conservation legacy, and adoption of the environmental policies of communist regimes from Poland to China. What more damage will they do before we finally run them out of town?

   Save the world: Reduce greenhouse gas emissions 5% annually.

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