But what would be wrong with carbon capture and storage?

According to James Hansen -- not a right-wing pro-coal nut -- coal with CCS is okay, but what's even more important, the development of CCS is crucial for the transition to carbon-negative bioenergy.

So what's up with the rather narrowminded rejection of the technology of carbon capture and storage?

This technology basically saves humanity's behind.

except it doesn't exist, mountaintop mining still ruins vast landscapes and ecosystems, and to implement CCS on such a scale as to actually help out, it would cost billions that the coal companies will not pay.

A coal sludge pond broke yesterday in Tennessee that stored captured fly ash. CNN has been covering the environmental mess including the heavy metals and other toxins locked up in this sludge pond. I wish we could have had the same amount of coverage for the Sludge/Slurry impoundment that broke down in Martin County Ky. A few years ago. It was a much larger spill than the Exxon Valdez and polluted miles of streams and river systems down in Ky. The sludge pond that failed in Tennessee is puny in size when looking at some of the sludge ponds here in East Ky. And West Va. We don't have enough environmentalist highlighting the coal sludge ponds that are created in the coal washing process.
      Combines with Mountain top Removal and Valley Fills the Appalachian forest and streams are under the twin assault of MTR and toxic sludge ponds. I hope I can find the new pro coal blog and they will let me post. I can show them some of the nastier sides of so called clean coal.

The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.

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