I just watched a 30 Days episode about the coal miners in West Virginia. It was SO depressing. They do this work because it pays $60k a year, but it kills them. And being so ingrained to doing it, they let it.
If this country would cease its dependency on coal fired energy, we wouldn’t have a whole culture of men who give their lives to mining coal. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? But NO, Southern Company plies the government with lobbyists who consistently BUY them permission to build more coal fired plants – as well as buy them permission to keep the ones they have running without sufficient pollution controls.
Hey, people, been to the Smoky Mountains lately? Seen the sticks that used to be forests? Yah, that would be pollution from the coal fired plants.
Southern Company is the main polluter of the Southeast and they are pretty much left alone to do as they please because of the frelling lobbyists.
They are currently proposing MORE coal fired plants and the proposals are sailing through congress and the other agencies due to lobbyist money.
It’s sickening.
Why do we allow this?
I vote against anyone even remotely associated with this travesty, but it really makes no difference since the lobbyists control all.
Southern Company is single handedly destroying the South. Does anyone care? Apparently not.
Sickening.