Walker Cat says "Yes, Coal"

Walker CAT, also known as Walker Machinery is based in West Virginia, and is a leading supplier of heavy equipment to the coal industry for mountaintop removal mining, which blasts upt o 1000 feet off densely forested Appalachian Mountains and dumps the mining debris into formerly pristine headwater mountain streams. Walker CAT also serves as the coal industry's propaganda arm, buying billboards throughout West Virginia reading "Clean, Carbon Neutral Coal" and "Clean Water, Clean Coal" featuring professional bass fisherman Jeremy Starks.

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Science & Technology

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• Walker CAT
• Caterpillar
• coal
• mountaintop removal
• clean coal
• Appalachia
• West Virginia

[Tylerscummins]

Coal. When you get down to the basics its stored solar energy. Plus its compleatly natral so i dont see the big problem here. Most all the pictures on this video were cause by human error

[mountainjustice]

@Tylerscummins - Coal is a natural substance but because carbon (coal) tends to filter out other substances sems of coal will also contain dangerous heavy metals including arsenic, lead, mercury and selenium that are toxic. We burn and use vast quantities of coal, so even though the amount of actual mercury on coal is small, a great amount is being released into the air and water becuase we burn over 100 million tons of coal annually.

[ryantyler16]

who ever made this video i say FUCK YOU lay off coal it keeps the LIGHTS ON

[ibtl1]

fucking moonbat liberals, more people are killed every day by niggers than by coal.

ban niggers.....its for the children

[cmecenter69]

i like my women like i like our mountains TOPLESS..... COAL KEEPS OUR LIGHTS ON

[jda1961]

i'm not against coal, but i am against mountaintop removal, when will the great state of west virginia get its head out of its ass.

[Arabhacks]

Coal can be recovered by strip mining or underground mining.

Both have good and bad points, but reclamation is the key in every case.

[mountainjustice]

@PATSICK TVA is actually a corporation owned by the US Government. "Neither fish nor fowl" is how it has been described. It is a both a dot com and a dot gov.

TVA is shutting down some of its older coal-fired power plants and is creating electricity from the wind on Buffalo Mountain and also promoting net zero, high efficiency homes powered by solar panels.

As far as private companies, take a look at my video on the Martin County coal slurry spill

[PATSICK]

@mountainjustice The TVA is a government project; it's incompetent by definition. what to do? a.) turn out the lights. or b.) get the government out of business and let private companies take care of business? Hmm, I wonder?

[PATSICK]

45,000 people or so kill themselves every year in the United States operating the safest motor vehicles ever designed, on the best highway system ever seen; because a.) they're drunk, b.) theyre talking on their cell phone, c.) they just aren't smart enough to contribute to the gene pool in the modern world. And you want to talk about Coal? You have go to be kidding.

[PATSICK]

@mountainjustice For your information the drinking water supply of Chattanooga is monitored continuously; and there is nothing wrong with it. I just thought you;d like to know. This is called the first world because public water supplies are monitored and certified for public consumption; you want to drink the water in Mexico City; well that;s a little different, that's basically buying a lottery ticket.

[PATSICK]

@mountainjustice And there is a.) a great amount of air, and a great amount of water; or b.) only a small amount of air and water? Numbers are very interesting; especially if you do your homework and you understand what they mean. In this case; absolutely nothing.

[treehuggerhater120]

@ryantyler16 Thank you for the comment couldnt said it better myself

[treehuggerhater120]

Been a stripminer for 5 years now. I dont go to work everyday saying man i cant wait to haul away mountains tonight . Its a job i go to work i do my job then go home. We gotta have coal always have always will or it would have been forgot about along time ago. Proud rock truck driver in eastern ky!! and plan on doing it til i retire. Any other miners out there with me??