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Old 10-07-2013, 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by piece-itpete View Post
Everything about coal is dirty, from the way old Rockefeller (iirc?) screwed the poor folks to the way it can be mined. My neighbor worked for one as a welder/fabricator (the equipment is impressive!) and he quit because of their habits (he's an avid outdoorsman), he said 'you've got all this digging equipment, it's too easy to scoop a hole and dump your waste oil in it'. Probably worse than the mountaintop removal.

Pete
Nothing is worse than that strip mining, there used to be black willow trees lining the banks of the Kentucky River, none left - whatever is in the water killed them all.

So cheap natural gas is killing coal and it pollutes the ground water, ironic no?
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