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Coal Killsby *poasterchild

Digital Art / Other / Political

Please disseminate widely, thank you! This does not give permission to alter or claim credit for this re-mixed work, for which I retain all copyrights. The original illustration is in the public domain.

If you disagree with the views expressed here, please be sure to read my Policy Statement BEFORE you post: [link]

Our mountains. In the Sierras, climbers climb them. In the Rockies, skiers ski them. In Appalachia, coal companies level them.

Coal isn't clean, and it's definitely not cheap. Across the Appalachians, companies are blowing entire mountaintops to smithereens to get at the thin coal seams below. The communities of the region are paying the cost in their health, their culture and their natural heritage.

Mining companies are clear cutting thousands of acres of some of the world's most biologically diverse forests. They're filling local rivers and streams with blasted debris, polluting drinking water with toxic waste and sacrificing the safety and sanctity of countless communities.

Mountaintop removal mining is not just devastating the region's environment and quality of life. It is also steadily crushing the heart of Appalachia.

Big coal companies should not be allowed to turn our nation's oldest (300 million years) mountains into molehills. Laws must change, environmental regulations must be enforced, corporations must reform their practices, and legal action must be taken to stop the most ecologically and culturally destructive form of strip mining on earth.

You can help today by urging Congress to reverse a Bush administration rule that allows mining companies to legally dump waste into mountain streams. Please go to the Natural Resources Defense Council website [link] and send letters today to the Obama Administration officials and urge them to pressure Congress close a loophole in the Clean Water Act that permits this deadly practice to continue.

This poaster is best viewed while listening to this [link]

~Charmed-Ravenclaw Feb 14, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Great poster design and message.

~Internet-Cancer Jan 26, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Geez it's the early 1900s all over again.
Or did it never stop?

~NonnyFox Jan 26, 2013

Sadus's Black comes to my mind whenever I here about another corporation not caring about the enviroment. Here's a link to their song [link] click only if you're into intense speeding thrash metal.

Sadus - Black (copyright 1990 Sadus, reprinted for educational purposes only)

Unknown substance, a putrid cloud - Choking all within
Results of progress, a noxious waste - Floating in the air

Living free? Chemically - So now our world is fading into slowly burning out
Prime wealth? Toxic health - Advancing towards extinction is the way it's turning out
Foul air? Do you care? Is cleanness where you live going against your common believe
Too much slime, insufficient time? In a suffocated future will you find the time to breathe

Jammed in one place
Blind in haste
Progress can't wait
A life in waste

Tending towards - Technology
Reverse of: life's biology

Chemical comatose
Radiation overdose
Burning, melting flesh
Leaking slime of dissolving waste
Overflowing blackness of death

Creation is being torn down by abuse
Infringement of the substance and our use

Elements decomposing, dilution is too slow
Every contribution, to the evolution
Its bad gets worse; deathly course.

Swallowed in black

Faced with reality?
Search your memory
Nothing dead ever comes back... the black

~emperorkirkwall Jan 26, 2013 Student Traditional Artist

Actually here in PA coal is our heritage, it gives us jobs which we desperately need, and revenue. We also got oil and natural gas but coal is more plentiful here and safer to extract. Yes its dirty, and sometimes found in thin supply, but its a Pennsylvania heritage, that has been going for hundreds of years.

*poasterchild Jan 26, 2013 Hobbyist Artist

I live in Appalachian Virginia, and so, I am not unsympathetic to the miners and to the deep mining section of the industry. I am extremely opposed to the technique called mountaintop removal mining. There is a huge difference between the two. Take a look at this video on Youtube: [link]. I have never seen a deep coal mining operation that produced destruction such as this.

~emperorkirkwall Jan 26, 2013 Student Traditional Artist

I can agree with the mountaintop thing, but the states in Appalachia survive off the coal industry, even if it does mean blowing a crater in the ground.My family has a history of being coal miners so this strikes me at the heart.

*poasterchild Jan 26, 2013 Hobbyist Artist

From what I understand from people here in the coal industry, most of the contraction is sales is not due to environmental regulations, but because of the competition caused by cheap natural gas that is coming on-line due to fracking. It is my hope that the deep mining of coal will always be a part of our economy, but I think it is going to be much more specialized. For example, the anthracite coal that you have in Pennsylvania that we do not have here in Virginia will always be in demand because of its use in the manufacture of steel, etc. What will happen over time is that less and less bituminous coal will be burned to generate electric power. So long as natural gas remains relatively cheap compared to coal, there is no way to stop that from happening in a free market system.

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