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Goodell: Americans ignorant of nation's coal dependency
Published: Friday, September 26th, 2008
Americans probably don’t remember how many times a day they turn on the lights, but they also probably don’t think about the connection between flipping the switch and coal mined from West Virginia and Wyoming, Rolling Stone contributing ...(back to the article)
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My mother, who died last Nov, was a coal miner's daughter from Mingo County, W. Virginia, so I have always been conscious of my Appalachian heritage.
Greenhouse gas emissions are one issue; an equally important issue is the mining of coal via mountaintop removal. This is an ecological nightmare - the state of W. Va. (aided and abetted by the Federal courts) s)is literally cannibalizing itself for short-term coal profits. And we thought strip-mining was bad - hah!!
Oh, and by the way, large parts of the state of Wyoming are being torn up for coal, too.
Is it worth it? I don't think so.
If a concern is CO2, then the interim solution is simple. Nuclear power. I definitely agree with the speaker (and disagree with Gore) -- capturing carbon from coal plants is currently very inefficient.