This Shit Has To End
Mountain Top Removal has to end and unfortunately it appears Obama is not going to be the one to end it:
The Obama administration has cleared more than three-dozen new mountaintop removal permits for issuance by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, drawing quick criticism from environmental groups who had hoped the new president would halt the controversial practice.
In a surprise announcement Friday, Rep. Nick J. Rahall said 42 of the 48 permits already examined by the U.S. Environmental Protection had been approved by EPA for issuance by the corps.
"It is unfortunate that, when EPA once again began reviewing proposed coal mining permits earlier this year, alarmists claimed that a moratorium on permit issuance was being proposed," Rahall said in a telephone news conference. "That was not that case then, and it is not the case now."
The West Virginia Democrat is chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, which oversees the federal strip mining law, and represents a district that includes most of the state's southern coal counties.
Rahall said officials from the EPA told him their review so far has objected to only six of the 48 Clean Water Act permits the Corps of Engineers had proposed to issue.
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson had announced in March that her staff was taking a closer look at those permits because of concerns that mountaintop removal was burying streams and damaging downstream water quality. Carl Pope, director of the Sierra Club environmental group, said Friday's announcement by Rahall raises questions about whether Jackson and EPA are up to the task.
"Because it appears that EPA is unwilling to intervene, it is now imperative that the White House Council on Environmental Quality take immediate action to stop the bulldozers," Pope said in a prepared statement. "The Obama administration should take swift action to fix the flawed 'fill rule' that enables this type of devastating mining and should act decisively to save the mountains, rivers and communities of Appalachia."
This shit needs to be stopped, today.
All those involved with the approval of Mountain Top removal permits should be ashamed. These things do not grow back. The damage is irreversable. How disappointing that such a thing happens during Barrack Obama's watch. It's the planet!
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With everything we know about the earth they should be so very ashamed.
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Another generation,and the young folks will think grandpa is crazy when he remembers the hills and 'hollers' of West Virginia.Of course,THEIR children will think Mom and Pop equally daft when they recall when there was no ocean out the front door.After the last human perishes,The Earth will quietly carry on for a few more billion years and have no sign that 'intelligent life' ever existed.
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