Comments on: Desperate for Fossil Fuels: King Coal

By: adderrori

adderrori — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:18:30 +0000

Just now looked through the thread. Amazing job.

By: Old King Coal, a Filthy Old Soul at Wise Living Journal

Old King Coal, a Filthy Old Soul at Wise Living Journal — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:48:48 +0000

[...] the combustible black rock from these most beautiful and abundant Appalachians. In that post, Desperate for Fossil Fuels, I described the environmental horror known as “Mountaintop Removal” and offered a [...]

By: Aileen

Aileen — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:29:25 +0000

Very cool, Benji. I do plan to join, and donate big just as soon as I’m able. Bless you for all iLoveMountains’ hard work! We finally got rid of “Chainsaw Charlie” (Taylor) a couple of years ago, Heath Shuler is a nice guy but too beholden to some questionable positions. Once this becomes an issue in DC, he’ll be on our side.

I’ll try to get the widget installed (I’m a total dunce about these things), definitely would be proud to display it on my blog! Thanks…

By: Benji Burrell

Benji Burrell — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:07:27 +0000

I just dropped by to thank you for spreading the word about mountaintop removal coal mining. We really appreciate your references to http://www.iLoveMountains.org.

Its posts like these that have made a HUGE impact on the campaign! If you ever need more resources about mountaintop removal coal mining, feel free to contact me.

If you havent already, please consider joining the iLoveMountains.org Bloggers Challenge and adding a WIDGET to your blog. To date, 460 bloggers have take the challenge!
http://www.iLoveMountains.org/bloggers-challenge

Thanks again, and take care! – - Benji@iLoveMountains.org

By: Aileen

Aileen — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:04:38 +0000

And thank you, John! I found so much great information at the iLoveMountains site I couldn’t put it all in a single blog post! I’ll be following this issue closely, and am already lobbying my representatives here in NC to pass the introduced legislation. Here the view really is worth its weight in gold to those of us who live here all year because we love it. Destroying these mountains is a crime against humanity, not to mention nature.

P.S. Duke’s got a lot of problems (not to mention nukes), but they do have to give me a backwards meter when we install solar panels on the roof and a turbine generator down on the creek! A dream, I hope we do finally realize.

By: Aileen

Aileen — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:00:09 +0000

Thanks, kim. Worst issue I’ve got right now is the sale of National Forest land (which borders my property) to developers for gated communities of log McMansions. P’sses me right off!

But if you love these mountains – and I surely do – their ravagement is a total offense. We can do otherwise, we have the technology. We just have to insist that it be deployed.

By: John A.

John A. — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:42:42 +0000

Thank you for posting about this. Too many people don’t know about it and don’t understand the how destructive this practice is.

Everyone should check out ILoveMountains.org. It’s got a lot of great info about how you can get involved in the fight against mountaintop removal coal mining.

Also, check out StopCliffside.org to learn more about Duke Energy’s most current attempt to inject more coal from MTR sites into NC’s power grid.

By: kim

kim — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:09:09 +0000

Good luck, Godspeed you on your mission.