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Clipmarks | Vietnam Clips Obama Says Mountain Crimes Can Be Regulated--Will Gore, Carter or Congress Intervene Now? clipped by: papananook clippers remarks: "Mountaintop removal is a crime--and ought to be treated as a crime." --Al Gore, April 28, 2008 "Mountaintop removal is a crime against local people, nature, our children, and our planet." --Dr. James Hansen, NASA Consider this: Over 3.5 million pounds of ammonium nitrate/fuel oil explosives rip across the most diverse and oldest mountains in America--and rain down silica dust and heavy metals on residents--in West Virginia alone EVERY DAY. Consider this: Mountaintop removal provides less than 5-7% percent of our national coal production, at a time when coal demand is down, and mountaintop removal coal could EASILY be replaced by energy efficiency, conservation, renewable energy sources or underground coal. Consider this: Not one person in the Obama administration involved in this outrageous decision has ever set a foot on a mountaintop removal site. Clip Source: www.commondreams.org [Video] "Todays announcement by the Obama administration paves the way for the criminals that conduct mountaintop removal to continue their bombing assault and hillbilly removal campaign against the people of the Coal River Valley and Appalachian mountain communities," says Bo Webb, a Vietnam Vet, coal miners son, and resident in Coal River Valley, West Virginia. For the Obama administrators too busy to visit the coalfields, heres a clip of the reality of their decisions: The Washington Post headline this morning cut to this chase: "Obama is Right to Allow Mountaintop Removal Mining." All well-meaning intentions aside, if the Obama administration truly wanted to "enforce" mountaintop removal regulations and protect American watersheds, drinking water, and communities from catastrophic flooding and toxic blasting, it would simply reverse a 2002 Bush and dirty coal lobby manipulation of the Clean Water Act and restore the original definition of "fill" material to no longer include mining waste. zum Artikel... Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de