News just broke that the Senate version of the Scenic Vistas Protection Act, which would prevent any mining operation in Tennessee that alters ridgelines above 2,000 feet above sea level, has failed in the Senate Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. The proposed bill banning mountaintop removal failed when no one made a motion to move the bill out of committee.
If Republicans could strip mine and log timber out of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park they'd happily turn it into a wasteland, if a few of their buddies in the extraction industry could profit from the deal.
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Keep it up, flatten it all. For a preview of what it will look like then, drive to Kansas.
At least Kansas is capable of growing things. These assholes won't be happy until they've turned everything east of the Cumberland Plateau into a Walmart parking lot.
And if you want flat, Tennessee has plenty of it in the western third of our state. At least, it's flat to US, 'cause we're used to hills.
"And the coal company came with the world's largest shovel and they stripped and tortured the land"
I can not imagine you people down there to permit greed destroy what God has given Tennessee.
Squat, look staight north into neighboring Kentuck to around Central City.
"Daddy won't you take me back to Muelhemburg County down by the Green River where paradise lays;
I'm sorry my son but you are too late in asking; Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away".
I hate to have to admit it but most of Grand Dad (on Mom's side)
are all miners. When, granddad died my Uncle Red was bad with the black lung - He was one of the few miners that escaped from the deep shaft mine at Sebree number 3 when that shaft caved in.
He told me to never mine. My cousins down there all were miners
- what other high paying work was there; and they all are dead.
What is that song about the mines by Johnny Cash?
Fuck Peabody Energy...
Ron
Damn, Sarge, that makes me want to dig out my Prine CDs for a dust off! (where's my Alvarez?)
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