Tag Archive 'coal'

The politics of the energy crisis

Posted by Moonage on 05 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: Energy Policy, Political Correctness

The jam we’re in right now was put in place thirty years ago.  In that time, we’ve gone from being an energy exporter to an energy junkie.  It really doesn’t matter where we get our hit, so long as we don’t have to accept any responsibility for it.  For instance:

Oil - The Democrats absolutely refuse [...]

Are all liberal talk show peeps stupid?

Posted by Moonage on 19 May 2008 | Tagged as: Conspiracy Theories, Energy Policy, Fun with Numbers, Idiot of the day, Media, Oil Policy, Oil Supply, Opinions, People, Political Correctness

Now, I don’t believe that to be necessarily true, I just can’t find one I think is terribly smart.  Today’s example is Thom Hartmann.  In 2005, he tried convincing people that Jimmy Carter tried to prevent the Bush Energy Disasters - 28 years ago.  Now, the reason he states this is because Jimmy gave a [...]

Chinese mining disaster kills 181

Posted by Moonage on 19 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Conspiracy Theories, Energy Policy

Rescuers raced Saturday to pump water out of two coal mines flooded by a rain-swollen river in eastern China, where 181 miners were missing and feared dead.
Water levels were rising, work areas were submerged and the miners “had only slim chances of survival,” the official Xinhua News Agency reported, citing Wang Ziqi, director of Shandong [...]

Yet another mining disaster gets much worse

Posted by Moonage on 17 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Energy Policy

For two weeks, six miners have either been trapped in a mine in Utah, or they are by now most likely dead. Last night, while trying to get to those miners, three more died. Shortly after another mining disaster in West Virginia a year and half ago, I did a piece on preventing mine disasters. Apparently [...]

10 Most Polluted places in the world

Posted by Moonage on 19 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: International Issues

Livescience ran a fairly brief article on the 10 Most Polluted Places in the World.  Without further ado, here they are in alphabetical order by country:

Linfen, China, where residents say they literally choke on coal dust in the evenings, exemplifies many Chinese cities;

Haina, Dominican Republic, has severe lead contamination because of lead battery recycling, a [...]

Five Dead in Kentucky Coal Mine Blast

Posted by Moonage on 20 May 2006 | Tagged as: Energy Policy

An explosion in an eastern Kentucky coal mine killed five miners Saturday, Gov. Ernie Fletcher said. A sixth miner was able to walk away from the blast and out of the mine on his own…
“This tragedy only compounds what has already been a horrific year in America’s coal mines,” Roberts said in a statement.
Earlier this [...]