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Reid gears up to defend stupid mining law Sigh	David Roberts	10 May 2007	Gristmill
The 1872 Mining Law is evil. It gives mining companies cheap and privileged access to public land, and makes it virtually impossible for anyone, including the gov't, to stop them from grabbing it (yet another cost of mining that gets offloaded onto the public). Attempts to get rid of or update the absurdly archaic and destructive statute have long been blocked by legislators from mining states. Among them is Harry Reid (D-Nev.), now the majority leader in the Senate, ...
Topics: coal, Congress, energy, Harry Reid, lobbying, mining (all these topics)

Peak coal, peak bees Trends on an ever-shrinking planet	Erik Hoffner	08 May 2007	Gristmill
I was at Coop Power's excellent annual renewable energy summit in western Massachusetts recently. Richard Heinberg was there as a presenter. He discussed his well-regarded peak oil projections, and he then put that curve next to his peak uranium and peak coal projections. That visual drew gasps from the crowd -- especially the peak coal bit. Sure we've got lots of coal, but its quality ain't what it used to be, and won't go as far. Check his data. This got me thinki ...
Topics: biodiversity, coal, energy, oil, water conflicts (all these topics)

Caveat	David Roberts	07 May 2007	Gristmill
A few posts back I big-upped Jon Tester for killing the liquid coal mandate coal-state Republicans tried to attach to the Senate EPW energy bill (which passed committee last week). I should add, lest things get too darn cheery around here, that the bill itself is largely focused on boosting ethanol. And you know how Gristmillians feel about that. So.
Topics: coal, Congress, energy, ethanol, politics (all these topics)

MTR at the UN this week Press conference on Tuesday in NYC	Erik Hoffner	07 May 2007	Gristmill
A delegation of grassroots groups from around Appalachia will be at the UN's Commission on Sustainable Development meetings this week to discourage further MTR abuse and advocate for alternatives (More on them here: www.stopmtr.org). New Yorkers, turn up for this if you can: NEW YORK CITY//MAY 8, 2007 NEWS ADVISORY A delegation of Appalachia coalfield citizen groups will hold a news event at 2 p.m. on Tuesday (May 8, 2007) in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza Park to ca ...
Topics: coal, energy, grassroots activism, politics, United Nations (all these topics)

Tester kills liquid coal amendment We knew we liked that guy	David Roberts	07 May 2007	Gristmill
Huge Gristmill big-ups to Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), who late last week cast a crucial vote in the Senate EPW committee to scuttle a coal-to-liquid amendment. The committee's been trying to craft an energy package; they had agreed to table contentious issues like CTL for open debate on the floor, but Sen. Craig Thomas (R-Wyo) put forth his measure anyway. It would have created a substantial mandate for liquid coal fuels -- 21 billion gallons annually by 2022 -- and cou ...
Topics: coal, energy, legislation, Montana, politics (all these topics)

Reece on MTR mining	David Roberts	06 May 2007	Gristmill
Erik Reese has an op-ed in the NYT about mountaintop-removal mining and a new program that shows promise in helping landscapes recover from it. Here's the nut: Appalachia's land is dying. Its fractured communities show the typical symptoms of hopelessness, including OxyContin abuse rates higher than anywhere in the country. Meanwhile, 22 states power houses and businesses with Kentucky coal. The people of central and southern Appalachia have relinquished much of the ...
Topics: coal, deforestation, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Kentucky (all these topics)

Your tax dollars at work Coal is the enemy of the human race. Coal is the enemy of the human race	Adam Browning	03 May 2007	Gristmill
The Office of Fossil Energy (no, not Dick Cheney's office -- apparently there is another one) released a new report this week: 'Tracking New Coal Fired Power Plants.' An excerpt from the press release: If built, the plants will be critical in helping to meet future electricity demand in the United States. The new and proposed plants would theoretically produce enough electricity to power 90 million homes. Coal is vital to the nation's energy security. Providi ...
Topics: fossil fuels, coal, energy, national security (all these topics)

Coal is filthy Motivation aside, the ad's still true	Jessica Tzerman	01 May 2007	Gristmill
West Virginia Dems Rep. Nick Rahall and Sen. Robert C. Byrd are fighting mad over some 'despicable' anti-coal ads that have appeared in major publications recently. The ads, underwritten by a natural gas company called the Chesapeake Energy Corp, show faces smudged with make-up meant to resemble coal dust under a headline reading: 'Face It, Coal is Filthy.' The campaign was pulled in the wake of Rahall's and Byrd's furious objections that it was unfair and mis ...
Topics: coal, energy, politics, West Virginia (all these topics)

Today in Big Coal Shenanigans everywhere	David Roberts	26 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The WSJ has a story today about the high hopes riding on the few large-scale carbon-capture demonstration projects under construction. The entire global political and economic elite desperately wants carbon sequestration to work, so they can keep us hooked up to the fossil fuel mainline. But as the WSJ notes, it's a tough row to hoe: Unlike oil or gas fields, power plants aren't always conveniently located near geological formations where carbon dioxide can be store ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, coal-to-liquid fuel, energy (all these topics)

The Nation takes on climate change Lots o' goodies	David Roberts	24 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The Nation has devoted its current issue to "surviving the climate crisis," and it's chock full o' good stuff. First up is Jim Hansen, the World's Least Censored Censored Scientist, who recommends the following five steps: "First, there should be a moratorium on building any more coal-fired power plants until we have the technology to capture and sequester the CO2." A gradually increasing price on CO2 emissions. Energy-efficiency sta ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, politics (all these topics)

Jim Sims and the clean coal PR push Learn how to recognize the shills	David Roberts	17 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Yesterday I wrote about an energy conference in Utah at which Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer enthusiastically shilled for coal and demanded more federal money for it. Looking more closely at the conference, I see I shouldn't have been surprised. The Salt Lake Tribune story from yesterday is all but a press release for Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., who hosted the shindig. Toward the end, though, it drops this tidbit: Some of the West's biggest names in energy, includin ...
Topics: coal, energy, lying liars, politics, state politics, Utah (all these topics)

Gristmill to Schweitzer: STFU Quit with the coal boosting already	David Roberts	16 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Down in Salt Lake City, the National Governors Association is holding a three-day Energy Summit. Tired of federal slacking, the NGA has for the first time in its history drawn up a specific list of priorities for Congress to consider this session. Here's what they said: At the top of the list - in fact, an 'imperative' - is acting to head off the devastation of climate change, Huntsman said during opening remarks at the three-day Utah Energy Summit in downtown Salt ...
Topics: coal, Congress, energy, politics, state politics (all these topics)

Coal bed methane drilling: Not just a western issue Alabama's Bankhead forest next?	Erik Hoffner	13 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Until today I was ignorant of the spread of this nasty sort of mining. Its impact is well documented in the antelope and sage grouse country of the intermountain West, leaving a trail of ruined land and poisoned wells. But companies are also drilling and fracturing this stuff out of the ground in the East, too. Some communities have succeeded in beating it back, like in northern New Mexico, where the very diverse and effective Coalition for the Valle Vidal recently prev ...
Topics: Alabama, coal, energy, mining (all these topics)

Energy Group report on peak coal Scary reading	David Roberts	11 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Last week I wrote about a coming report on world coal reserves from the Energy Group in Germany, based on the IEA World Energy Outlook 2006. Here's the report. The nut: This analysis reveals that global coal production may still increase over the next 10 to 15 years by about 30 percent, mainly driven by Australia, China, the Former Soviet Union countries (Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan) and South Africa. Production will then reach a plateau and will even ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy (all these topics)

The remote that helps you find the remote Biofuel facilities that use fossil fuels help no one, waste resources.	JMG	04 Apr 2007	Gristmill
The Onion, America's Finest News Source (TM), once told of a special device for dealing with a lost TV remote: a remote you could use to make the other TV remote beep, so you could find it underneath the discarded pizza boxes and such. Little did the Onion writers know that Big Coal and Corporate Agribusiness would apply that same principle to produce a horde of monsters, the so-called "biofuels plants," facilities with a voracious appetite for fossil fuels, particu ...
Topics: biofuels, coal, energy (all these topics)

What if coal is running out too? A new report could change the entire energy picture	David Roberts	03 Apr 2007	Gristmill
Virtually everyone involved in energy discussions takes for granted that there's plenty of coal waiting to be burnt. The typical claim is that the U.S. has "200 years" worth of domestic energy in its coal reserves. That's why some people aren't as worried as they might be about the imminent peak in oil production. The notion is that we'll burn coal for electricity, liquefy it for transportation fuel, and be on our merry way. (And oh yeah, to shut the globa ...
Topics: coal, energy (all these topics)

Karma Duke Supremes say upgrading coal plants without reducing pollution a no-no		03 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Karma Duke Supremes say upgrading coal plants without reducing pollution a no-no We love the Supreme Court this week. In a unanimous decision yesterday, Big Justice overturned a lower court ruling and declared that Duke Energy did indeed violate the Clean Air Act when it modernized coal plants without paying for pollution-reduction equipment. Duke had claimed it wasn't required to consu ...
Topics: air pollution, coal, Department of Justice, energy, news, politics (all these topics)

Shorpy An excellent new photo blog	David Roberts	31 Mar 2007	Gristmill
My new favorite blog in the whole wide world is Shorpy, "the 100-year-old photo blog." It's just what it says: it collects old pictures. That description doesn't do it justice, though. It's fascinating. For instance, check out this picture of Miss America contestants from 1927 -- interesting to see how standards of beauty have and haven't changed, hm? Or check out the rows and rows of folks hard at work in the computing division, from some time between 1909 ...
Topics: coal, energy, green living, websites (all these topics)

VBS.tv on West Virginia coal Internet TV that doesn't suck!	David Roberts	30 Mar 2007	Gristmill
I confess I had never heard of VBS.tv before they wrote us. It's an internet TV station that grew out of Vice magazine. Poking around their site, I must say it looks pretty damn cool. Raw, but cool. I've been wondering when a viable internet TV production outfit will pop up. Maybe this is it. (Here's the mission statement, if you're interested.) The reason they wrote us is to flag an investigative series they did called Toxic: West Virginia. To wit: Part 1: Mountain ...
Topics: coal, energy, green living, TV, websites, West Virginia (all these topics)

Her Side of the Mountain Mary Anne Hitt, director of Appalachian Voices, answers readers' questions		30 Mar 2007	InterActivist
What is Appalachian Voices doing to promote renewable energy and conservation to get the U.S. off its fossil-fuel addiction? ��-- Kristen Sykes, Asbury, N.J. Mary Anne Hitt, Appalachian Voices. While stopping mountaintop-removal coal mining does not require transitioning away from the use of coal, a sensible plan for America's energy security and stability does. Not only is coal the ...
Topics: coal, energy, InterActivist, interview, mining (all these topics)

The good, the bad, the politics as usual More on coal in West Virginia	Jessica Tzerman	28 Mar 2007	Gristmill
OK, here's some rare good news in the fight against mountaintop removal mining. Last Friday, Judge Robert "Chuck" Chambers, a federal judge in West Virginia, ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers broke the law in issuing MTR mining permits that would allow streams to be buried. This means that, finally, the Corps, which approves mining permits, will have to recognize and uphold the Clean Water Act! They've been called out for illegally issuing per ...
Topics: coal, energy, politics, West Virginia (all these topics)

A new target Proposed coal company merger will draw green opposition	David Roberts	26 Mar 2007	Gristmill
This is from a press release that just crossed the transom: The expected March 29, 2007 merger of Dynegy and LS Power will create a combined company with the most pending dirty coal-fired power plants in the United States. This plan contrasts sharply with the recent TXU decision to back away from such heavily polluting plants and also heightens concerns about growing risks to shareholders, according to a major new report prepared for the National Environmental Trust ...
Topics: business, coal, energy (all these topics)

Hitting Back Mary Anne Hitt, director of Appalachian Voices, answers Grist's questions		26 Mar 2007	InterActivist
Mary Anne Hitt. What's your job title? I'm the executive director of Appalachian Voices. What does your organization do? We bring people together to solve the big environmental problems facing the central and southern Appalachian Mountains -- mountaintop-removal coal mining, air pollution, and the loss of our native forests. What are you working on at the moment? Photo: iLoveMountains.org We recent ...
Topics: coal, energy, InterActivist, interview, mining (all these topics)

Coal is the enemy of the human race Still	David Roberts	26 Mar 2007	Gristmill
An extensive Christian Science Monitor analysis reveals that "nations will add enough coal-fired capacity in the next five years to create an extra 1.2 billion tons of CO2 per year." In all, at least 37 nations plan to add coal-fired capacity in the next five years -- up from the 26 nations that added capacity during the past five years. With Sri Lanka, Laos, and even oil-producing nations like Iran getting set to join the coal-power pack, the ...
Topics: carbon sequestration, coal, energy (all these topics)

Unseamly Behavior Federal judge blocks West Virginia coal-mining permits		26 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Unseamly Behavior Federal judge blocks West Virginia coal-mining permits Foes of mountaintop-removal mining got a break late Friday when a federal judge blocked four permits for mines in West Virginia. The permits, issued by the Army Corps of Engineers, had said it was A-OK for Massey Energy's subsidiaries to fill valleys with the dirt and other detritus left over from shearing off moun ...
Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, coal, energy, mining, news, West Virginia (all these topics)

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