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| Sunday, November 15th, 2009 | ||||
| 4:04 pm | Obama EPA approves another mountaintop removal mine `  `  ` The Obama administration late last week quietly approved one of six major mountaintop removal permits that were said to be undergoing close scrutiny by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Without announcing the move publicly, EPA gave the nod for the federal Army Corps of Engineers to issue a Clean Water Act permit for CONSOL Energy Inc.'s Peg Fork Surface Mine near Chattaroy in Mingo County. EPA approved all eight valley fill waste piles originally proposed by CONSOL, provided that additional water testing is done before six of those fills are constructed, agency officials said. Corps officials in Huntington approved the permit on Friday. Copies of key permit documents were not yet being made public, despite a promise from the Obama White House of increased transparency in the permit review process. `  ` "We are disappointed that the administration has approved a new mountaintop removal mine without making any commitment to adopt new regulations or policies that would end this destructive practice," said Ed Hopkins, director of the Sierra Club's environmental quality program. "While we appreciate that the Obama administration is taking a harder look at mountaintop removal coal mining, unless that results in decisions that end the irreversible destruction of streams, the harder look isn't going to do the job." ` `  `TVA coal ash spill After announcing a crackdown on mountaintop removal in late March, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson less than two months later cleared dozens of valley fill permits for issuance by the corps. Under federal law, the corps directly reviews these "dredge-and-fill" permits, but EPA has veto authority and is supposed to make sure the corps is doing a good job. The Peg Fork Surface Mine was one of six pending permits that EPA had reviewed and was not yet ready to approve. EPA said in mid-May that it had opposed all six permits because "they all would result in significant adverse impacts to high-value streams, involved large numbers of valley fills, and impact watersheds with extensive previous mining impacts." Originally, CONSOL's 817-acre mining permit proposed eight valley fills that would have permanently buried nearly 3 miles of streams. It's not clear what, if any, changes were made to the size of valley fills, because government officials have not released the final permit documents. Mark Taylor, a corps permit chief in Huntington, said the permit allows CONSOL to go ahead with two of the valley fills immediately.  ` MORE BOOKS book: Big Coal, The Dirty Secret; by Jeff Goodell book: Greenwash, The Reality Behind Corporate Environmentalism; by Jed Greer http://www.stopgreenwash.org book: Earthsummit.Biz: Corporate Takeover of Sustainable Development; by Kenny Bruno book: Battling Big Business: Countering Greenwash, Infiltration, and Other Forms of Corporate Bullying book: When Miners March; by William C. Blizzard book: Bloodletting in Appalachia, The Story of West Virginia's Four Major Mine Wars; by Howard Burton Lee book: Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields; by David Corbin book: Battle of Blair Mountain; by Robert Shogan book: Storming Heaven; by Denise Giardina book: Unquiet Earth; by Denise Giardina book: Lost Mountain; by Erik Reece book: Coal River; by Michael Shnayerson book: Bringing Down the Mountains; by Shirley Stewart Burns book: Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal; by Penny Loeb book: Missing Mountains; by Kristin Johannsen book: The Buffalo Creek Disaster; by Gerald M. Stern book: Bringing Down the Mountains; by Shirley Stewart Burns book: Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds; by William S. Laufer (free Google Book) ~ BIG OIL MAIN PAGE http://bigoil101.insanejournal.com `  FILM: FUEL http://thefuelfilm.com FUEL is an insightful portrait of America’s addiction to oil and an uplifting testament to the immediacy of new energy solutions. Director, Josh Tickell, a young activist, shuttles us on a whirlwind journey to track the rising domination of the petrochemical industry — from Rockefeller’s strategy to halt Ford’s first ethanol cars to Vice President Cheney's petrochemical company sponsored energy legislation — and reveals a gamut of available solutions to "repower America" — from vertical farms that occupy skyscrapers to algae facilities that turn wastewater into fuel. Tickell and a surprising array of environmentalists, policy makers, and entertainment notables take us through America’s complicated, often ignominious energy past and illuminate a hopeful, achievable future, where decentralized, sustainable living is not only possible, it’s imperative. `  School Buses switch to Bio Diesel SAVE CHILDREN’S LIVES http://solarafrica304.livejournal.com/6 VEGETABLE OIL BUSES and Cars VEGETABLE OIL CONVERSION KITS for BUSES & Cars http://plantdrive.com http://www.greasecar.com http://www.vegpoweredsystems.com http://www.goldenfuelsystems.com http://www.goodgrease.com http://www.vegpower.com http://www.elsbett.com http://vegoilconversions.netfirms.c http://biocar.de http://www.enviofuel.com http://www.frybrid.com http://www.vegiecars.com http://www.vegetable-oil-conversio http://www.theorganicmechanic.org http://www.fattywagons.com RUDOLF DIESEL - INVENTOR of DIESEL VEGETABLE OIL CAR http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24209.htm POLLUTION: PETROL versus HEMP OIL http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24451.htm VEGETABLE OIL AUTOMOBILES - Part 1 http://vegcar.livejournal.com/25641.htm VEGETABLE OIL Cars Links http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24880.html HOW TO CONVERT USED COOKING OIL into FUEL http://vegcar.livejournal.com/8194.h ~ books: The Teapot Dome Scandal, How Big Oil Bought the White House and Tried to Steal the Country; by Laton McCartney Secret History of the American Empire; by John Perkins Family of Secrets, The Bush Dynasty; by Russ Baker Restoring The Creation Mandate; by Roger L. De Haan http://bigoil406.insanejournal.com `  `  ` Jacked: How Conservatives Are Picking Your Pocket - Whether You Voted for Them or Not; by Nomi Prins Book Preview: books.google.com amazon.com worldcat.org openlibrary.org http://www.nomiprins.com `  `  It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals; by Nomi Prins Book Preview: books.google.com worldcat.org openlibrary.org http://www.nomiprins.com By using taxpayer money as a piggy bank for Wall Street, the “conservative” economic agenda is anything but. It affects your wallet—and not just your money. Traveling the country to speak to people of all walks of life, Nomi shows how skewed national priorities have diminished America, but not the American spirit. "An excellent education for those remaining Americans who still do not understand that right-wing politicians take from those who work and give to those who live in luxury off the sweat of others." - American Chronicle ( April, 2008) Nomi Prins did her field work for "Jacked." This is a book filled with the voices of people living on the margins who Prins interviewed in more than 30 states. It's the voice of America you hear but rarely in the mainstream media...--BUZZFLASH `  ` Free lunch: how the wealthiest Americans enrich themselves at government; by David Cay Johnston Book Preview: books.google.com amazon.com worldcat.org openlibrary.org `  The War at Home: the Corporate Offensive from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush; by Jack Rasmus Book Preview: amazon.com video.google.com  War on Terror, Inc. - Corporate Profiteering from the Politics of Fear; by Solomon Hughes info: books.google.com redpepper.org.uk `  `  ` Triple Cross: How Bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA; by Peter Lance Book Preview: amazon.com peterlance.com worldcat.org openlibrary.org DVD: Who Killed the Electric Car? http://www.amazon.com/Who-Killed-Electr http://bigoil406.insanejournal.com `  ` Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives; by Edwin Black Book Preview: books.google.com amazon.com worldcat.org openlibrary.org http://www.internalcombustionbook.c http://bigoil406.insanejournal.com Looters of the Public Domain; by Stephen A. Douglas Puter Free eBook: books.google worldcat/w lccn.loc.gov amazon Plundertown USA: Coos Bay Enters the Global Economy; by Al Sandine info: worldcat/w lccn.loc.gov books.google amazon Pure, clean air is the invisible staff of life. Smog is the invisible staff of death. ~book: Super Power Breathing for Super Energy and Longevity; by Patricia Bragg `  Does Big OIL or Big COAL have a Body BAG with your CHILD's Name on it? book: Big Coal, The Dirty Secret; by Jeff Goodell book: Moving Mountains; by Penny Loeb http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24663.htm http://air301.livejournal.com/667.html OIL - GAS REFINERIES = DIRTY AIR & DEATH http://www.refineryreform.org G.Bush@Bankruptcy~Enron.com http://ovl.indymedia.org/news/2008/06/2 http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/200 `  ` SHOCKING CORRUPTION by BIG OIL http://bigoil101.insanejournal.com http://bigcoal101.insanejournal.com Is your Congressman in bed with the Greedy Oil Robber Barons? Stop the Political incest. How much political campaign contributions (bribes) is your congressman receiving from Corrupt Big Oil? www.campaignfinance.org/states www.publicintegrity.org Stop being SHAFTED by SLEAZY CORRUPT Politicians Do we have taxation without Representation? Is this a Tyranny? ` http://bamboo4cloth.livejournal.co http://hemp3000004.livejournal.com/6 http://strawbale2.livejournal.com/689.h http://solarenergy.org http://solar4hospital6.livejournal.c http://www.fsec.ucf.edu http://ruth2teach.livejournal.com/593.h http://lectra24.livejournal.com/1049.ht http://pickensplan101.livejournal.com/1 http://solarstate3.livejournal.com/1 http://solarstate2.livejournal.com/7 http://solargroup.livejournal.com/1 http://solar2008tour.livejournal.com/21 http://solarliving.org http://permaculture.org.uk `  ` WIND 101 http://pickensplan101.livejournal.c `  ` http://www.pluginamerica.org http://lectra24.livejournal.com/1049.ht http://vegcar.livejournal.com/5672.h http://www.eaaev.org http://www.eaaev.org/eaachapters.ht http://www.sourceguides.com/energ  SOLAR Heated SWIMMING POOLS, Spas, Hot Tubs, GREENHOUSES and Buildings http://www.warmwater.com http://www.canadiansolartechnologi ` HEATPUMP Heated SWIMMING POOLS, Spas, Hot Tubs, GREENHOUSES and Buildings http://heatpump301.livejournal.com Ground Source Heatpump Systems http://www.geotility.ca SOLAR - Ground Source HEATPUMP Thermal Heating Systems http://www.swisssolartech.com `  ` TAX CREDITS http://www.dsireusa.org `  ` Billion Dollar Solar Power farms http://air306.livejournal.com `  ` SolFocus Aims to Beat Coal and Natural Gas with Solar Concentrators http://air302.livejournal.com `  ` Parabolic Trough Solar Electric Generating Systems  Abengoa Solar Electric Generating Systems http://www.abengoasolar.com  `     Ron Paul's introduced H.R. 1009: The Industrial Hemp Farming Act Campaign for LIBERTY http://hemp3000003.livejournal.com/7 Industrial Hemp 101 http://hemp101.livejournal.com/549.h GENERAL LINKS http://vegcar.livejournal.com/25537.htm ~ | |||
| Saturday, September 5th, 2009 | ||||
| 5:23 pm | Obama caves in to Big Coal - approves another mountaintop removal mine ` ` ` The Obama administration late last week quietly approved one of six major mountaintop removal permits that were said to be undergoing close scrutiny by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Without announcing the move publicly, EPA gave the nod for the federal Army Corps of Engineers to issue a Clean Water Act permit for CONSOL Energy Inc.'s Peg Fork Surface Mine near Chattaroy in Mingo County. EPA approved all eight valley fill waste piles originally proposed by CONSOL, provided that additional water testing is done before six of those fills are constructed, agency officials said. Corps officials in Huntington approved the permit on Friday. Copies of key permit documents were not yet being made public, despite a promise from the Obama White House of increased transparency in the permit review process. ` ` "We are disappointed that the administration has approved a new mountaintop removal mine without making any commitment to adopt new regulations or policies that would end this destructive practice," said Ed Hopkins, director of the Sierra Club's environmental quality program. "While we appreciate that the Obama administration is taking a harder look at mountaintop removal coal mining, unless that results in decisions that end the irreversible destruction of streams, the harder look isn't going to do the job." ` ` `TVA coal ash spill After announcing a crackdown on mountaintop removal in late March, EPA administrator Lisa Jackson less than two months later cleared dozens of valley fill permits for issuance by the corps. Under federal law, the corps directly reviews these "dredge-and-fill" permits, but EPA has veto authority and is supposed to make sure the corps is doing a good job. The Peg Fork Surface Mine was one of six pending permits that EPA had reviewed and was not yet ready to approve. EPA said in mid-May that it had opposed all six permits because "they all would result in significant adverse impacts to high-value streams, involved large numbers of valley fills, and impact watersheds with extensive previous mining impacts." Originally, CONSOL's 817-acre mining permit proposed eight valley fills that would have permanently buried nearly 3 miles of streams. It's not clear what, if any, changes were made to the size of valley fills, because government officials have not released the final permit documents. Mark Taylor, a corps permit chief in Huntington, said the permit allows CONSOL to go ahead with two of the valley fills immediately. ` MORE BOOKS book: Big Coal, The Dirty Secret; by Jeff Goodell book: Greenwash, The Reality Behind Corporate Environmentalism; by Jed Greer http://www.stopgreenwash.org book: Earthsummit.Biz: Corporate Takeover of Sustainable Development; by Kenny Bruno book: Battling Big Business: Countering Greenwash, Infiltration, and Other Forms of Corporate Bullying book: When Miners March; by William C. Blizzard book: Bloodletting in Appalachia, The Story of West Virginia's Four Major Mine Wars; by Howard Burton Lee book: Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields; by David Corbin book: Battle of Blair Mountain; by Robert Shogan book: Storming Heaven; by Denise Giardina book: Unquiet Earth; by Denise Giardina book: Lost Mountain; by Erik Reece book: Coal River; by Michael Shnayerson book: Bringing Down the Mountains; by Shirley Stewart Burns book: Moving Mountains: How One Woman and Her Community Won Justice from Big Coal; by Penny Loeb book: Missing Mountains; by Kristin Johannsen book: The Buffalo Creek Disaster; by Gerald M. Stern book: Bringing Down the Mountains; by Shirley Stewart Burns book: Corporate Bodies and Guilty Minds; by William S. Laufer (free Google Book) ~ BIG OIL MAIN PAGE http://bigoil101.insanejournal.com ` FILM: FUEL http://thefuelfilm.com FUEL is an insightful portrait of America’s addiction to oil and an uplifting testament to the immediacy of new energy solutions. Director, Josh Tickell, a young activist, shuttles us on a whirlwind journey to track the rising domination of the petrochemical industry — from Rockefeller’s strategy to halt Ford’s first ethanol cars to Vice President Cheney's petrochemical company sponsored energy legislation — and reveals a gamut of available solutions to "repower America" — from vertical farms that occupy skyscrapers to algae facilities that turn wastewater into fuel. Tickell and a surprising array of environmentalists, policy makers, and entertainment notables take us through America’s complicated, often ignominious energy past and illuminate a hopeful, achievable future, where decentralized, sustainable living is not only possible, it’s imperative. ` School Buses switch to Bio Diesel SAVE CHILDREN’S LIVES http://solarafrica304.livejournal.com/6 VEGETABLE OIL BUSES and Cars VEGETABLE OIL CONVERSION KITS for BUSES & Cars http://plantdrive.com http://www.greasecar.com http://www.vegpoweredsystems.com http://www.goldenfuelsystems.com http://www.goodgrease.com http://www.vegpower.com http://www.elsbett.com http://vegoilconversions.netfirms.c http://biocar.de http://www.enviofuel.com http://www.frybrid.com http://www.vegiecars.com http://www.vegetable-oil-conversio http://www.theorganicmechanic.org http://www.fattywagons.com RUDOLF DIESEL - INVENTOR of DIESEL VEGETABLE OIL CAR http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24209.htm POLLUTION: PETROL versus HEMP OIL http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24451.htm VEGETABLE OIL AUTOMOBILES - Part 1 http://vegcar.livejournal.com/25641.htm VEGETABLE OIL Cars Links http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24880.html HOW TO CONVERT USED COOKING OIL into FUEL http://vegcar.livejournal.com/8194.h ~ books: The Teapot Dome Scandal, How Big Oil Bought the White House and Tried to Steal the Country; by Laton McCartney Secret History of the American Empire; by John Perkins Family of Secrets, The Bush Dynasty; by Russ Baker Restoring The Creation Mandate; by Roger L. De Haan http://bigoil406.insanejournal.com ` ` Jacked: How Conservatives Are Picking Your Pocket - Whether You Voted for Them or Not; by Nomi Prins Book Preview: books.google.com amazon.com worldcat.org openlibrary.org http://www.nomiprins.com ` It Takes a Pillage: Behind the Bailouts, Bonuses, and Backroom Deals; by Nomi Prins Book Preview: books.google.com worldcat.org openlibrary.org http://www.nomiprins.com ` ` Free lunch: how the wealthiest Americans enrich themselves at government; by David Cay Johnston Book Preview: books.google.com amazon.com worldcat.org openlibrary.org ` Book Preview: amazon.com video.google.com War on Terror, Inc. - Corporate Profiteering from the Politics of Fear; by Solomon Hughes info: books.google.com redpepper.org.uk  `
Triple Cross: How Bin Laden's Master Spy Penetrated the CIA; by Peter Lance Book Preview: amazon.com peterlance.com worldcat.org openlibrary.org DVD: Who Killed the Electric Car? http://www.amazon.com/Who-Killed-Electr http://bigoil406.insanejournal.com ` ` Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives; by Edwin Black Book Preview: books.google.com amazon.com worldcat.org openlibrary.org http://www.internalcombustionbook.c http://bigoil406.insanejournal.com Pure, clean air is the invisible staff of life. Smog is the invisible staff of death. ~book: Super Power Breathing for Super Energy and Longevity; by Patricia Bragg ` Does Big OIL or Big COAL have a Body BAG with your CHILD's Name on it? book: Big Coal, The Dirty Secret; by Jeff Goodell book: Moving Mountains; by Penny Loeb http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24663.htm http://air301.livejournal.com/667.html OIL - GAS REFINERIES = DIRTY AIR & DEATH http://www.refineryreform.org G.Bush@Bankruptcy~Enron.com http://ovl.indymedia.org/news/2008/06/2 http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/200 ` ` SHOCKING CORRUPTION by BIG OIL http://bigoil101.insanejournal.com http://bigcoal101.insanejournal.com Is your Congressman in bed with the Greedy Oil Robber Barons? Stop the Political incest. How much political campaign contributions (bribes) is your congressman receiving from Corrupt Big Oil? www.campaignfinance.org/states www.publicintegrity.org Stop being SHAFTED by SLEAZY CORRUPT Politicians Do we have taxation without Representation? Is this a Tyranny? ` http://bamboo4cloth.livejournal.co http://hemp3000004.livejournal.com/6 http://strawbale2.livejournal.com/689.h http://solarenergy.org http://solar4hospital6.livejournal.c http://www.fsec.ucf.edu http://ruth2teach.livejournal.com/593.h http://lectra24.livejournal.com/1049.ht http://pickensplan101.livejournal.com/1 http://solarstate3.livejournal.com/1 http://solarstate2.livejournal.com/7 http://solargroup.livejournal.com/1 http://solar2008tour.livejournal.com/21 http://solarliving.org http://permaculture.org.uk ` ` WIND 101 http://pickensplan101.livejournal.c ` ` http://www.pluginamerica.org http://lectra24.livejournal.com/1049.ht http://vegcar.livejournal.com/5672.h http://www.eaaev.org http://www.eaaev.org/eaachapters.ht http://www.sourceguides.com/energ SOLAR Heated SWIMMING POOLS, Spas, Hot Tubs, GREENHOUSES and Buildings http://www.warmwater.com http://www.canadiansolartechnologi ` HEATPUMP Heated SWIMMING POOLS, Spas, Hot Tubs, GREENHOUSES and Buildings http://heatpump301.livejournal.com Ground Source Heatpump Systems http://www.geotility.ca SOLAR - Ground Source HEATPUMP Thermal Heating Systems http://www.swisssolartech.com ` ` TAX CREDITS http://www.dsireusa.org ` ` Billion Dollar Solar Power farms http://air306.livejournal.com ` ` SolFocus Aims to Beat Coal and Natural Gas with Solar Concentrators http://air302.livejournal.com ` ` Parabolic Trough Solar Electric Generating Systems Abengoa Solar Electric Generating Systems http://www.abengoasolar.com ` Ron Paul's introduced H.R. 1009: The Industrial Hemp Farming Act Campaign for LIBERTY http://hemp3000003.livejournal.com/7 Industrial Hemp 101 http://hemp101.livejournal.com/549.h GENERAL LINKS http://vegcar.livejournal.com/25537.htm
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