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Friday, August 7, 2009
Boomer with Attitude / News Stupid Thing of the Week
Posted By John Grooms on Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:39 AM
A public relations flack for the coal industry hit new heights of shameless stupidity this week by coming up with a, umm, really unique reason to support mountaintop removal mining in the Appalachians. It turns out, according to Joe Lucas, VP of Communications for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, that the practice of blowing up mountaintops and shoving them into neighboring hollows isn’t the ecological disaster (as in "the rape of Appalachia") you may have been misled to think. In fact, says Lucas, mountaintop removal mining is actually a real boon to mountain communities because ... ready? ... wait for it ... it solves the “lack of flat space” problem in Appalachia. And he’s serious. “In many places,” says Lucas, “mountaintop mining, if done responsibly, allows for land to be developed for community space,” such as hospitals and factories. Never mind that those communities being “helped” are often destroyed economically, as well as environmentally savaged, by the destructive mining practice. As one reporter put it, “This gives new meaning to the idea of the Flat Earth Society.”
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