<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Bush appoints mountaintop-removal mining exec to key DOE position]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Tasermons Partner http://www.grist.org/article/bush-suboleski-and-blankenship/ Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:40:34 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/bush-suboleski-and-blankenship/1 Won't be there for long...

...it's a president-appointed position, and this president is on his way out.  Hopefully, we'll get a new president who doesn't share the current one's views and will appoint someone else.  

Let's just hope this guy can't do too much damage between now and 2009.

Also, what 'bout the guy he replaced?  Was he considered any better?  And why did he leave?

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...it's a president-appointed position, and this president is on his way out.  Hopefully, we'll get a new president who doesn't share the current one's views and will appoint someone else.  

Let's just hope this guy can't do too much damage between now and 2009.

Also, what 'bout the guy he replaced?  Was he considered any better?  And why did he leave?

]]> Comment #2 by Solar John http://www.grist.org/article/bush-suboleski-and-blankenship/ Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:12:55 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/bush-suboleski-and-blankenship/2 We need a president who cares

Protecting the land that sustains is just one reason this country needs to find alternatives to oil and coal.  Laws that require quick reclamation of the disturbed lands back to their original contours with native vegitation and productivity was the vision of the original reclamation laws, not the reality on the ground.  It won't happen until we get a president who cares.

Solar John

]]> We need a president who cares

Protecting the land that sustains is just one reason this country needs to find alternatives to oil and coal.  Laws that require quick reclamation of the disturbed lands back to their original contours with native vegitation and productivity was the vision of the original reclamation laws, not the reality on the ground.  It won't happen until we get a president who cares.

Solar John

]]> Comment #3 by Solar John http://www.grist.org/article/bush-suboleski-and-blankenship/ Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:32:55 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/bush-suboleski-and-blankenship/3 About Don Blankenship

In April of 2007 Don Blankenship appealed the suspension of valley fill permits for four mountaintop removal mines saying:  "The streams in question have been filled, their functions lost.  There is no harm to the stream from placing more rock on top of the rock that has already filled the stream."

This statement speaks volumes as to the kind of man Don Blankenship is.  He might as well have said; I've already raped and ruined the land, there is no harm in doing it a little more?

Solar John


]]> About Don Blankenship

In April of 2007 Don Blankenship appealed the suspension of valley fill permits for four mountaintop removal mines saying:  "The streams in question have been filled, their functions lost.  There is no harm to the stream from placing more rock on top of the rock that has already filled the stream."

This statement speaks volumes as to the kind of man Don Blankenship is.  He might as well have said; I've already raped and ruined the land, there is no harm in doing it a little more?

Solar John


]]> Comment #4 by PearlFizzberry http://www.grist.org/article/bush-suboleski-and-blankenship/ Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:43:41 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/bush-suboleski-and-blankenship/4 help is on the way ?

Wanted to say that the hope things will REALLY change after the Bush administration is a longshot.  It will improve, and I can't wait for that, but the history of West Virginia is such that both Democrats (Rockefeller, Rahall, Byrd) are as lovey dovey with coal as any uber capitalist Republican.  A real live revolt will have to happen and I can tell you that people there have been indoctrinated to either work in the mines (back in the old days when it was dug out, not that that's good either, but it is less heinous) or move away.  I remember when Massey's first operation Elk Run Coal came to town and an intense battle ensued. Union days.  After I left to go to college something happened there, Massey is everywhere (seriously), there's no union, and an already deeply corrupt political system seems to have fully rotted.  Worse yet, the propaganda works to keep people at one anothers throats in defense of the few squatty ass jobs left.    
Yeah, Massey is a shameless, shameless, ho-bag and I hope as an athiest there is some circle of hell appropriate for him.  For those of us broke in half by the quagmire, it's hard to not be fatalistic about it.

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Wanted to say that the hope things will REALLY change after the Bush administration is a longshot.  It will improve, and I can't wait for that, but the history of West Virginia is such that both Democrats (Rockefeller, Rahall, Byrd) are as lovey dovey with coal as any uber capitalist Republican.  A real live revolt will have to happen and I can tell you that people there have been indoctrinated to either work in the mines (back in the old days when it was dug out, not that that's good either, but it is less heinous) or move away.  I remember when Massey's first operation Elk Run Coal came to town and an intense battle ensued. Union days.  After I left to go to college something happened there, Massey is everywhere (seriously), there's no union, and an already deeply corrupt political system seems to have fully rotted.  Worse yet, the propaganda works to keep people at one anothers throats in defense of the few squatty ass jobs left.    
Yeah, Massey is a shameless, shameless, ho-bag and I hope as an athiest there is some circle of hell appropriate for him.  For those of us broke in half by the quagmire, it's hard to not be fatalistic about it.

]]> Comment #5 by PearlFizzberry http://www.grist.org/article/bush-suboleski-and-blankenship/ Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:47:21 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/bush-suboleski-and-blankenship/5 woops

I meant to say Blankenship deserves the special spot in hell, not Massey.  

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I meant to say Blankenship deserves the special spot in hell, not Massey.  

]]> Comment #6 by Pompey Road http://www.grist.org/article/bush-suboleski-and-blankenship/ Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:59:09 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/bush-suboleski-and-blankenship/6 You got it right the first time.

Massey is Don Blankenship, not to worry.

If Ol Don thought he could sell coal to stoke the fires of Hell he would go in a heartbeat and would probably be thrown out by satin for screwing up the environment down there.

I would like to have him have to watch as the last fresh water stream in hell is covered up by a big ol D-9 cat dozer with his ass strapped to the blade.

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.

]]> You got it right the first time.

Massey is Don Blankenship, not to worry.

If Ol Don thought he could sell coal to stoke the fires of Hell he would go in a heartbeat and would probably be thrown out by satin for screwing up the environment down there.

I would like to have him have to watch as the last fresh water stream in hell is covered up by a big ol D-9 cat dozer with his ass strapped to the blade.

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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