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[d cook]

Wind energy creates about 30% more jobs than a coal plant and 65% more than a nuclear plant per unit of energy generated. And tax subsidies? According to Renewable Energy World magazine, conventional energy receives $300 billion in subsidies per year, while renewable energy has received less than $20 billion of tax-payers money in the last 30 years. (windustry)

[d cook]

I have been to wind sites, the ones we get about half our power from. The air there is clean, the land is beautiful, peaceful, and the locals are very grateful for the good jobs and tax revenues the wind farm brings in to an otherwise depressed economy. And it will continue to, unlike coal mines that close down when the coal is gone, leaving the locals unemployed, the land trashed and useless for farming etc, and a financial burden for the community that has to clean the mess left behind

[d cook]

You are lying. Even Fox news knows what's going on here as I quoted from the story "Why mining and burning coal could slowly be killing us" in other comments. This included info from physicians, the CDC, etc, I think I will believe hem over you. You are either dishonest, or you refuse to look at FACTS, either way, you are spreading misinformation but fortunately it won't do any good, as the information is readily available and agreedon by the scientists and medical community,

[d cook]

coal-mining communities. In addition, communities near mountaintop coal mines have inordinately high rates of birth defects. These health disorders not only cause tremendous grief and sorrow, but they are extremely expensive as well. Burning coal is an even greater hazard, with millions of tons of mercury, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and particle matter contaminating the atmosphere and contributing to a host of toxin-related diseases.

[d cook]

an epidemic” of respiratory diseases among coal miners, due to regular inhalation of deadly toxins and particle matter. According to a report in the journal Science Daily, people who live in coal mining communities have a 70 percent risk of developing kidney disease, a 64 percent increased risk of developing chronic pulmonary obstructive disease, and are 30 percent more likely to develop high blood pressure than those who do not live in

[d cook]

Continued from Fox News story noted above, Another report from the National Academy of Sciences concluded that coal-fired plants cost the U.S. $62 billion per year in environmental and health costs. Yet another report in The New York Times revealed that coal plants regularly dump thousands of tons of highly toxic waste into public drinking water sources. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes “

[d cook]

There are millions of people sick from coal plants, U.S.-based medical group Physicians for Social Responsibility and authored by Dr. Alan Lockwood, a professor of neurology at the University at Buffalo, pollution from the burning of coal kills tens of thousands of people each year, due to asthma, chronic pulmonary obstruction, emphysema, heart attack, stroke and cancer. (from Fox News, "

Why mining and burning coal could slowly be killing us"

[d cook]

There are subsidies, why are you lying? Its public record, as are the measured toxins the coal plants emit, and the tax dollars used to clean uip the toxic waste sites they leave behind. Wind turbines have created many good paying, long term jobs and produced high tax revenues for communities. Wind turbines will pollute aquafirs? What a load of BS. Coal pollutes, and you know it, the toxic ash ponds, the mercury, lead, arsenic etc emissions I spelled out already. Renewable energy is the solution

[thinkingthingsthru]

Coal fired power plants in the US emit less then 1% of mercury emissions globally. There is no mercury problem or indications of mercury related illnesses with the exception of areas in Canada that exposed mercury in the soil when building hydroelectric dams, There were concentrations of naturally occurring mercury that during construction was disturbed and got into the water supply.

[d cook]

I don't know what you value, but I do not want my kids exposed to these poisons through the air, water, food, etc. It is entirely unnecessary, and there are better, cleaner, safer options than coal, and the coal that is used should and could be used in a way that does not emit these poisons.