Posted on 02/20/2019 8:47:33 AM PST by rickmichaels
Former Vice President Al Gore said Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam can fulfill his racial reconciliation pledge by opposing the Atlantic Coast pipeline, which he called a racist rip-off.
This is an ideal opportunity for him to say, Ive seen the light,' Gore said at an anti-pipeline town hall in a historically black part of Buckingham County, Virginia, as part of an Environmental Justice Tour, the AP reported.
Gore appeared on stage with his daughter Karenna Gore, Rev. Dr. William Barber II, environmental activists and residents of Union Hill, a historically black neighborhood, who oppose the Atlantic Coast pipeline.
Gore and climate activists see Northams recent blackface controversy as a way to turn him against the Atlantic Coast pipeline.
Northams political future was thrown into doubt early in 2019 after his medical school yearbook photos surfaced, showing a picture of an individual in blackface and another in a KKK hood.
Northam apologized for being in the photo, but, one day later, claimed he wasnt in the photo amid calls for his resignation. He did, however, admit to wearing shoe polish for a dance contest in 1984. The embattled Democratic governor refused to resign, and wanted to focus on racial reconciliation, The Washington Post reported.
Barber said Northam needed to address systemic racism to truly atone for wearing blackface.
If you want to be a great governor, if you want to help lead the nation, the first thing you oughta do is stop by Union Hill and tell this compressor, tell Dominion, I was wrong, but Im gonna do right, now,' Barber said in a fiery speech Tuesday night.
The Atlantic Coast pipeline will bring natural gas 600 miles from West Virginia, through Virginia to North Carolina. The Richmond-based utility Dominion Energy will build and operate the pipeline.
Dominion plans on building a natural gas compressor station in the historically black Union Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. The Atlantic pipeline is one of many around the country environmentalists are fighting to block as part of their effort to keep fuel from getting to consumers who need it.
Dominion proposed spending $5.1 million in the Union Hill community, which could include building a community center, improving emergency services and grants for businesses.
The Atlantic Coast pipeline will create thousands of jobs and lower energy bills, supporters say. However, the project has suffered delays and cost overruns while its caught up in litigation with environmental groups.
Gore called the pipeline a vivid example of environmental racism, and claimed compressor stations, like the one planned for Union Hill, can cause lots of diseases and emit lots of noise.
Weve heard about explosions and accidents, Gore said, also claiming newer pipelines are even less safe though, like his other claims, this is likely untrue.
Gore also called for Dominion to abandon the project and, instead, build more wind turbines and solar panels.
Maybe Northam could atone by purchasing carbon credits from Al Gore.
I was looking for the logical connection between the gas pipeline and blackface and just don’t see it. If it were an oil pipeline, I suppose Weird Al could at least make a case that that stopping it would make it harder to obtain petroleum products to make boot polish.
Yep !
I’ve seen that one.
Every time I have hear him talk he sounds to me like someone who is “mentally slow”. So much so that Rush’s “Forrest Gore” skit is not to far off the mark!
Why is this sex-crazed poodle even consulted for an opinion?
Rape a woman, do racist things, lie to the FBI? No problem...
Just trade that for liberal action on favored issues and you can be absolved of your crimes.
-PJ
I guess Al Goron thinks he is atoning for his Racist Bigoted Father’s Sins by pushing his Globull Warming scam.
Well LBJ got them to forget about lynchings, Jim Crow, the KKK and an uncountable number of misdeeds if they would come back to the Democratic plantation.
The good Guv took 2 million of “the people’s cash” from Planned Parenthood...and failed to deliver on the baby murder bill.
So he sure has he#$ has something to “atone for” to the gods of liberalism.
Al Gore is dispensing his own ‘medical advice” to the good doctor..preventive medicine.
How much of Gore’s family fortune is invested in alt energy? Inquiring minds want to know.
Northam and the black LT. governor are going to be pure gold for Trump in 2020. I can’t wait for the first debate when the democrat candidate and the media whores doing the questioning throw the race card or sexism card on Trump. He’s going to toss these two right back in their faces with gusto.
Is he saying black people don’t (or would rather not) use natural gas to heat their homes, water, or cook their food?
Man Bear Pig alert for later....
So it’s basically extortion?
So Al...
What should Fairfax do to atone for raping 2 women?
I love it when states reject carbon, more for the rest of us!
Wish I knew what the re-call situation is in Virginia.
Since re=call of the governor is different in each state.
Would be nice to start the ball rolling on that.
Well he was vice president to the nations first black president, and by that I mean he was only in second place in committing vice in the White House.
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