Last night was the Governor’s last night with Current, so I thought I’d highlight an outstanding piece.
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Added: And yes, this is a spoof site. And check this out: (h/t: NRDC, Natural Resources Defense Council)
ST. LOUIS, May 10, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
Earlier today, an activist group released a “spoof” website claiming to be sponsored by Peabody Energy. The site is in fact a hoax, making inaccurate claims about Peabody and coal.
Peabody is proud to help hundreds of millions of people live longer and better through coal-fueled electricity. A growing collection of studies demonstrate the correlation between electricity fueled by low-cost coal and improvement in health, longevity and quality of life. The United Nations has linked life expectancy, educational attainment and income with per-capita electricity use, and the World Resources Institute found that for every 10-fold increase in per-capita energy use, individuals live 10 years longer.
Government statistics show that in the United States, coal use has more than tripled in the past several decades while regulated emissions have declined 84 percent. Peabody Energy is a global leader in clean coal solutions and is advancing more than a dozen clean coal projects around the world, leading to our ultimate goal of near-zero emissions from coal.
Find out more at PeabodyEnergy.com or CoalCanDoThat.com.
CONTACT: Meg Gallagher
SOURCE Peabody Energy
Psst! Meg! There is no such thing as clean coal.
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Hey chums! Searching for the perfect birthday gift for your little tyke? Need a practical Bar Mitzvah present? Live just a tad too close to a coal plant? Have trouble breathing? Dealing with that annoying wheeze and the inability to inhale and exhale? Breathing becoming a real drag?
Wowzers! That’s no fun!
Turn that frown upside down, because Coal Cares lets you inhale with pride!
Why Free Inhalers? Because COAL CARES.
Coal Cares™ is a brand-new initiative from Peabody Energy, the world’s largest private-sector coal company, to reach out to American youngsters with asthma and to help them keep their heads high in the face of those who would treat them with less than full dignity. For kids who have no choice but to use an inhaler, Coal Cares™ lets them inhale with pride.
Puff-Puff™ inhalers are available free to any family living within 200 miles of a coal plant, and each inhaler comes with a $10 coupon towards the cost of the asthma medication itself.
That’s right, moms and dads, coal is the safest energy there is!
Black lung? Pfft! Gasping for breath? Lapsing into panic mode? Turning blue?
You’re in luck! Coal Cares has the answer! Free inhalers! Chase those pesky asthma blues away with your very own Miley Cyrus edition!
Better yet! Let “The Biebs” resuscitate you! Now that’s hawt!
New to asphyxiation? Then My First Inhaler is for you!
And who the heck is this Peabody Energy anyway?
So breathe easy, kiddies, Coal Cares is on the way! Thank you, Peabody! You’re the best!
H/t: Blondetwit
First off, the HBO movie Gasland is a must-must-must see. It’s all about fracking, which is explained here. Fracking is destroying lives, destroying the environment, and needs to stop.
Need more proof? The Hill provides a sneak preview:
Cornell University professors will soon publish research that concludes natural gas produced with a drilling method called “hydraulic fracturing” contributes to global warming as much as coal, or even more.
The conclusion is explosive because natural gas enjoys broad political support – including White House backing – due to its domestic abundance and lower carbon dioxide emissions when burned than other fossil fuels.
Cornell Prof. Robert Howarth, however, argues that development of gas from shale rock formations produced through hydraulic fracturing – dubbed “fracking” – brings far more methane emissions than conventional gas production.
Professor Howarth:
“The [greenhouse gas] footprint for shale gas is greater than that for conventional gas or oil when viewed on any time horizon, but particularly so over 20 years. Compared to coal, the footprint of shale gas is at least 20% greater and perhaps more than twice as great on the 20-year horizon and is comparable when compared over 100 years,” states the upcoming study from Howarth, who is a professor of ecology and environmental biology, and other Cornell researchers.
Here is a sneak peek at the study, which, by the way, is not definitive. Please read the entire Hill piece for more details.
This is one of those times when “looking forward as opposed to looking backwards” is a very wise idea.
And the corporate bludgeoning will start in 5… 4… 3… 2…
Radio host Bob Kincaid just linked me to the following eyebrow-raising piece, and it’s worthy of sharing, especially in light of the so-called “calls for civility” since the Arizona massacre.
Please see the entire article at this link, I’ll just post the before and after:
Before it was edited:
After:
And don’t get me started on mountaintop removal.
I just got word of another post by Jeff Biggers. Please read it; he covers the topic in more detail over at HuffPo.
Coal cash
Re ” Texas vs. EPA climate rules,” Nov. 7
Corbin Robertson — chief executive of Quintana Minerals Resources Group, the “largest private owner of coal reserves in the United States” — has donated money to Texas Gov. Rick Perry, state Atty. Gen. Greg Abbott and Rep. Joe Barton of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Now Texas is suing the Environmental Protection Agency.
It is simple to connect the dots. Potential profit from filthy coal production is vastly more important than clean air, clean water, public health or the future of the planet.
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