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• in Politics
  Mitt Romney Scores Big with Blue Collar Backbone in Ohio
  Hundreds of coal miners and their families stand in line waiting to attend a rally at the Century Mine in Ohio
  by theedje / on Aug 20, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “coal mining”

 

• Carrying water for an end to mountaintop removal

  
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  Activists hauled polluted water from Appalachia to Washington, D.C. this week to draw attention to the plight of communities affected by mountaintop removal coal mining. The action comes as legislation was reintroduced in Congress to protect coalfield waterways. read more
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• Scranton gives big sendoff to TV’s ‘The Office’ after image boost

  
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  Tens of thousands of people, including some of the stars of The Office, gave a rousing send-off to the television comedy show that ends this month in the city where it was set and whose image it changed forever.
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• Powerhouse Museum Movable Heritage Fellow for 2013 -Leanne Wicks from Kandos

  
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  Miners hard hat, 1947, Kandos Coming up with an idea for a research project was not difficult for me living on the edge of the Western coalfield of NSW.  Evidence of Kandos’ past reliance on the winning of coal doesn’t take much digging.  With superior Kandos cement from kilns heated with Kandos ...
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• Coal Mining Pollution Neglected by The Environmental Protection Agency

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 512
  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced earlier this week, that they will not take any action against coal mining pollution. The reasoning for EPA’s  inactions is that the agency has “other priorities”. It is somehow difficult to comprehend how such agency, which is responsible for protecting the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Everyone said “You can’t unseat the Political EnemyClass by voting them out. Well, I say: “it has never been tried before, and we shall have to see.”

  
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  David Davis Clown or fruitcake? (from Matt at the DT) Today, for the first time a rather historically large number of British voters get to be able to elect, if they like, candidates for “Council Seats” (this to say in honest countries – “socialist Soviets”) from the United Kingdom Independence ...
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• UN human rights group calls for investigation of mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia

  
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  The United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights recently visited West Virginia communities affected by the controversial mining practice and said allegations of health damage, water pollution, failure to protect cemeteries, and harassment of opponents should be investigated and addressed. read more
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• Anne Lewis : Corporate Crime Scene in West, Texas

  
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  Putting on the makeup. Television reporter on the scene at the fertilizer plant explosion in West Texas, Thursday, April 18, 2013. Photo by Patrick Bresnan / The Rag Blog. Getting the picture: Corporate crime scene in West, TexasHow do we avoid the news story framework that gives us nothing but heroes and victims when ...
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• When coal mines ignite – The city on top of a fire and the door to hell

  
  Pie Cubed — Authority: 137
  Centralia, PA When you first reach Centralia, Pennsylvania, it looks like a standard semi-abandoned town. Maybe one that had its major route of through traffic diverted, and slowly died. Then you notice the strange cracks in the roads and the smoke billowing from the ground. Because in fact, Centralia is not your ...
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• Big trouble in big China needs big action

  
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  Environmental news keeps pouring out of the Middle Kingdom faster than the black gunk that filled the Yellow Sea during the Dailan oil spill of 2010. Remember that? It was huge, spreading out over 430 square km (166 sq mi). Then there was the 2011 spill in the Bohai Sea, a cooperative move by a US private oil ...
  3 weeks ago

• The coal-mining racket threatening Ukraine’s economy

  
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  Sometimes, they are little more than holes, in the woods outside villages or even in backyards and under houses, but Ukraine’s illegal coal mines can also be huge, open-cast operations. What started as hand-to-mouth survival, 20 years ago, is now big business. Mihailo Volynets, the wiry head of Ukraine’s ...
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• A turning point for mountaintop removal?

  
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  There were two big developments this week in the fight to end mountaintop removal, with a federal appeals court upholding the EPAs authority to revoke permits for such coal mining operations, and a group of scientists calling for a moratorium on the practice. Is the end of blowing up Appalachia near? Listen ...
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• IGOR ZYUZIN’S SUBTERFUGE – WHY MECHEL SHAREHOLDERS DON’T REALIZE THE COMPANY HAS BEEN NATIONALIZED

  
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  By John Helmer, Moscow Igor Zyuzin (right) is almost entirely dependent on the Russian government for the solvency of his Mechel steelmaking and coalmining group. With between $9 billion and $10 billion in debt, Zyuzin, who owns 65.49% of Mechel’s shares and controls the company as chairman of its board, is now the ...
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• Coal, poor water management endanger Southern rivers

  
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  The Flint in Georgia, the San Saba in Texas, the Catawba in the Carolinas, and the Black Warrior in Alabama are among the nations 10 most threatened rivers, according to the latest tally from American Rivers. read more
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• Annie Sprinkle & Beth Stephens make a film about mountain top removal coal mining.

  
  Lydia Lee's Blog — Authority: 491
  If you don’t know who Annie Sprinkle is, she’s an adult industry icon. She’s also a sex positive feminist, a published author, a PhD, director, and an environmentalist. The following is the Kickstarter trailer for Annie’s and Beth Stephens ‘ film on mountain top removal coal mining in the Appalachian ...
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• The good is oft-interr-ed with their bones

  
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  David Davis Since Margaret Thatcher is to be in-terr-ed tomorrow, I just thought we’d throw one last punch at her enemies and ours. I found this wonderful piece on The Last Ditch the other day, and one para deserves to be highlighted in our usual way:- “If you want to know who freedom’s enemies are, ...
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