Unbridled Destruction

For those of you who wonder about the altered license plate below that reads Kentucky Unbridled Destruction, take a look at this from Grist:

As American citizens in Mingo County and other areas of the flood-stricken Kentucky and West Virginia coalfields continue to dig themselves out of the muck, indefatigable Charleston Gazette reporter Ken Ward is reporting on his Coal Tattoo blog that the EPA has �signed off on almost all (87.5 percent, to be exact) of the mountaintop removal permits that has so far been reviewed under the initiative announced in March.�

. . .

Have 42 out of 48 permits for mountaintop removal�the process of blowing up our nation�s oldest and most diverse mountains, razing historic communities, poisoning watersheds, and causing massive erosion and flooding, which Vice President Al Gore has termed �a crime, and ought to be treated as a crime��been cleared as �environmentally responsible� by the Obama administration�s EPA?

Since President Barack Obama has taken office, an estimated 300 million pounds of ammonium nitrate/fuel oil explosives have been detonated across our American mountains.

I like my cheap electricity. I remember, just barely, when there was no electricity in the country in Kentucky. Many members of my family have prospered as employes of the Rural Electric Co-ops and have been considered heroes for going out, as linemen, in sleet, snow, flood, to keep the power on.

But my dears, this mountaintop removal is wrong!

Link from Morning Porch.

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