Mountaintop Removal Brave Mountaineers

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[alexcaulfield]

What kind of future do you envision for coal in WV and your kids future? Please answer, I'm open to being educated.

[alexcaulfield]

Make stupid fun all you want about treehugers, and trees and roots.

I'd rather hug a tree than a lump of coal. Are you a friend of coal? And if you are does that mean you've lost touch of reality because that is about the most freakish thing I've ever heard of.

[alexcaulfield]

dozer3man. Freaks?

When you're knocking those trees down do you ever think about what you're doing to the future of your children? I can only conclude that you think buying a new pick em up truck is more important than working towards a sustainable future for the next generation.

[ghostrider2134]

i think treehuggers should be put in jail for trying to ruin our future in coal mining

[spindle450r]

Coal mining our future!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dozer3man]

What a bunch of freaks!!!!!! wonder how or if these guys provide for their famileys? or do I have to work to keep food on these tree huggers table as well, food stamps ,socialism for all right? If you hug trees do you suck roots?

[1099951801]

This video is called "Brave Mountaineers".

What is so brave about carrying a banner

up a hill promoting a stupid wind mill that

will destroy itself if it turns to fast? If standing in front heavy equipment is brave, then run over their stupid ass.

These bunch of tree hugging freaks need to be shipped off where they can all be together, hug trees, take temperatures,

test water and then cry if it doesn't meet

their hypocritical standards. Down with Enviro-freaks. Long live MTR!!!!

[juicifer451]

Also, the sun doesn't really stop shining, and water doesn't stop flowing. Clouds will reduce the efficiency of solar panels, but I've never seen a day that was pitch black at noon.

It's understandable to disagree on principle with someone who's threatening to put your job at risk, but it's not really OK to lecture about science when it's in your favor and call the scientists ignorant when you don't like what they have to say.

[juicifer451]

Actually, I'm looking out my window at a single wind turbine that provides over 20% of the power for the next town over. I've never seen it not spinning in the year I've lived here, and on top of that, it's far less ugly than most of the buildings surrounding it.

Are you from WV? I've seen wind farms down there- How do you not know that your own state uses wind power?

[WV24985]

Obviously, all those who commented before me, were sorely uneducated. Wind, solar, hydro, and whatever kinds of power may be the future, but the future hasn't gotten here, yet. This country isn't set up to make that transition, yet...we don't even know for sure we can get enough power from those sources. A scientist would set up something, test it, build it larger scale, and make sure it works, before abandoning what is already working. (what if the wind doesn't blow one day?)