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Originally Posted by piece-itpete
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
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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?