Kennedy calls MTR a crime
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Kennedy spoke Monday at a two-hour rally in Charleston where environmental activists demanded state regulators stop Virginia-based Massey Energy from blasting and mining the Coal River Mountain.
Some 300 environmentalists showed up and were heckled by about 200 coal miners and truck drivers who drove back and forth near the protest site, blasting their air horns.
A line of state troopers kept order.
Kennedy says industry touts coal as cheap and clean, but it’s neither.
Though it costs 9 cents per kilowatt hour, he says Americans pay the price with polluted air and waterways that can lead to health and developmental problems.
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« minersmom1 wrote on Tuesday, Dec 08 at 11:05 AM »
I don't know where these idiots get the idea it is alright to come in OUR state and try to tell us what THEY think is the right thing to do. There has been mining for years and the reclamation of the present day mountain top removal makes useable land for a deversified economy!!! They would run us out of their states and call us a bunch of igornant hillbillies if we were to call their hand on some the stupid things they do. Let them do with out power for a awhile and not be able to use their little keyboards to run the country!!!!
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