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16 years ago @ After Gutenberg - Coal pays the bills · 0 replies · +1 points

While on the topic of disregard, Brad Johnson reminds Wonkroom readers that Don Blankenship called safety regulators "as silly as Global Warming."

16 years ago @ After Gutenberg - Mounting Damages from ... · 0 replies · +1 points

State politicians know how to share the love, too. Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D-MT) made a “heavy-handed” demand that “local officials express support, in writing, for a proposed coal mine in order to receive stimulus money for local projects,” in a letter telling them to voice support for “coal money.”

16 years ago @ After Gutenberg - Warmer-than-Normal, Dr... · 0 replies · +1 points

The Associated Press reports that Southern New England now has seen "record heat, as well as fire danger warnings, less than a week after record flooding” with “the earliest date ever for a 90-degree reading in Boston” — the “typical” first 90-degree day in Boston is June 5th. Weatherman Brad has more.

16 years ago @ After Gutenberg - Mounting Damages from ... · 0 replies · +1 points

"You could not ask for a more craven illustration of the bankruptcy of national energy politics and the obeisance national legislators still must pay the coal industry, no matter what havoc it wreaks" than a statement by Bill Wicked Wicker, the communications director for the Senate Energy Committee. "This is a mining incident. This issue involves the health and safety of our miners, not our energy future."

Such pandering incensed Grist's David Roberts, who sees the coal industry destroy the land, pollute the air and water, impoverish communities, and sicken tens of thousands of people a year. He sees the disregard for the safety of the people who dig the coal as another example of how coal kills and how our "elected" representatives continue to allow such malfeasance.

16 years ago @ After Gutenberg - Coal pays the bills · 0 replies · +1 points

One might presume that coal pays for Newsweek advertising. As Wonkroom Guest JW Randolph asserts, the article that Daniel Stone published, "West Virginia Mine Disaster Unlikely To Effect National Energy Debate", was so full of misinformation and false pretexts that I wanted to spend some pixels correcting a few things

16 years ago @ After Gutenberg - GE Wind aims for off-s... · 0 replies · +1 points

Via Greenwire we learn that GE Energy continues as the largest supplier of wind turbines to the U.S. wind power industry, followed by Denmark's Vestas, Germany's Siemens, and Mitsubishi of Japan. As wind power proliferates GE Energy could see greater competition from Chinese turbine manufacturers that have geared up production to supply China's increased demand.

16 years ago @ After Gutenberg - Push for More Wind Pow... · 0 replies · +1 points

While the US now gets 31% of electricity from Low-Carbon Source, Peter Behr and Jenny Mandel tells us that US get 2% of electricity from Wind Power. "Six states used turbines to generate more than 5 percent of their electricity last year," report the NY Times Greenwire bloggers. Iowa led the pack for wind's share in the market, producing 14.2 percent of its electric power from wind last year. It ranked second to Texas in the amount of wind generation capacity, as the Lone Star State exceeded 9,000 megawatts at the end of last year.

While there was more than 10,000 megawatts of new generating capacity last year during a second year of recession, the question remains how the US can increase the percent of electricity that comes from wind power ten fold?

16 years ago @ After Gutenberg - Warmer-than-Normal, Dr... · 0 replies · +1 points

AP reports that The Caribbean “is battling a record drought that has shut down schools and courtrooms and sparked brush fires and a prison protest,” with “the lowest rainfall totals from October to March since records were kept.”

16 years ago @ After Gutenberg - Coal pays the bills · 0 replies · +1 points

During the immediate time after the mine disaster with expressed regrets and calls for better mine safety, Jeff Biggers warns, "If we look at the titanic Massey violations, just above this mine, in the same community where all the journalists are now, there is a huge billion dollar gallon coal slurry impoundment. And Massey Energy is also blasting near this coal slurry impoundments and threatening the lives of the people below."

16 years ago @ After Gutenberg - Renewable Energy Growt... · 0 replies · +1 points

"The Americans will always do the right thing after they have exhausted all the alternatives." -Winston Churchill

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