Posted on 10/13/2009 6:23:42 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
PIKEVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Thousands of coal miners fearing the loss of jobs if mountaintop removal mining is curtailed or outlawed shouted down a handful of environmentalists at crowded public hearings Tuesday on the much-debated practice.
Many in Kentucky and West Virginia wore hardhats and T-shirts and waved signs proclaiming the merits of coal.
Environmentalists who have fought for decades to end the destructive form of mining that blasts away peaks to unearth coal showed up in small numbers.
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Thats because there are only small numbers of enviromentalists whose effects are blown all
out of proportion by a greenshoe licking media.
Which presidential candidate did their union support?
Obama and Biden stood right in the heart the Appalachian coal-mining community and said if elected they would “go after” coal and the coal miners voted for them.
I guess they thought it was just a throw away campaign pledge with no intention to be fulfilled. Sure.
Maybe in WV they may wake up and vote Dems out of office including the old insane Klansman.
Obama throwing his voters under the bus.
Obama suck-ups all. Getting what they voted for, and getting it good and hard. Simple f*ckers.
West Virginia keeps electing two left wing loons to the Senate. They are simply reaping what they have sown.
Strip mining can be destructive to the environment. But, laws have been passed and enforced in recent years to clean up and restore strip sites.
They want to dream of windmills and all that. But for the foreseeable future, coal is part of our energy mix. Would they prefer that we send more men into more dangerous underground shafts, rather than mountaintop blasting or stripping?
Hate to say it, but you are correct. Remember the video that came out a week or so before the election that SHOULD’VE upset the coal mining states? When BHO said coal mines could still be built but it would bankrupt the mining company, that electricicty would necessarily become very expensive...
Guess they don’t have TV’s or computers in those coal mining towns...and missed that video.
WV and KY went solidly against Obama and for McCain and the coal community is large enough to be influential in both states, especially WV. The UMW bigs might have backed Obama & the Dem ticket in general, but the members did not fall for it.
PA, OH and VA coal miners could not have swung it to McCain as the coal mining community proportion is relatively small in the overall population. In SW VA, where the miners are the population base, I believe Obama got smoked.
Obama lost in western coal states too.
I disagree that many coal miners really voted for Obama.
Well, some of you posters are right, these folks voted for Obama despite him admitting his plans for coal mining.
On the other hand, some folks in Kentucky have discovered the former strip mined areas, donated to the state by the coal companies, are the perfect habitat for the state’s VERY successful elk reintroduction.
Many in Kentucky and West Virginia wore hardhats and T-shirts and waved signs proclaiming the merits of coal.
Environmentalists who have fought for decades to end the destructive form of mining that blasts away peaks to unearth coal showed up in small numbers.
Dumb asses!!! Betcha voted straight party line for the demoRATs & commie pig usurper 0boz0, who support the eco-environmento terrorists 100%. How's that working out for you so far? You won't do that again, will you! Well, at least not until the next election when the union bosses tell you to vote straight demoRAT as always!!!
Once again....Dumb asses!!!
Did Obama win WVA?
That is what you get when you vote Democrat. They have only themselves to blame. obama was straightforward when he said what he ws going to do to the coal companies. Guess they did not believe him.
If you check the county by county map of the last election you will see that Ohio coal country went for McCain. My county went for McCain but there are not enough of us to balance out ACORN and the Welfare class in our cities here in Ohio. Their unions might have told them to vote for Obama but not all union folk listen.My hubby works in a union and most of the guys he works with know the union works for the union not the workers.I’d guess there is 25% who are stupid and fall for the cr@p but the other 75% don’t.
Dumb asses!!! did not vote for Obama http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/
and they heard him,and did not vote for him, look for yourself. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/maps/obama_vs_mccain/
Have you ever been to some of those coal mining towns?? Of course...calling them coal mining towns now is sort of a misnomer. Many of the original coal miners left decades ago. It’s a very depressed area with lots of drug abuse.
putting a label on a certain group of people makes it easier to dispose of them,worked for Hitler,is working for Obama.
Coal Miners were rednecks, now coal is dirty.
I live in one of “those coal mining towns, yesterday 85 of the “misnomer” miners lost their jobs,
http://www.wkyt.com/wymtnews/headlines/64155952.html
I'm sorry for those 85 miners without a job. Everyone's losing jobs right now. My husband's job was spared but his dept just shaved 30 jobs. Can't tell you how many have been lost in total. Almost everyone I know has someone in their family facing cuts of some sort whether it's their whole job or hours worked. :(
My father in law worked in mines and moved on years ago, now there is no place to move on too,sadly as you say jobs are scarce all over.
Hopefully next election,these clowns will loose their jobs!!
Don’t confuse them with facts. Let them hold hard to their prejudices.
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