Quote of the day

There is industry shilling and then there is INDUSTRY SHILLING. Joe Lucas, vice president of communications for the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, an organization that advocates for something that is an utter myth, decided to take the latter form of industry shilling and add a few exclamation points, a siren, and took it to Blingee to add in some glitter graphics.

I can take you to places in eastern Kentucky where community services were hampered because of a lack of flat space — to build factories, to build hospitals, even to build schools. In many places, mountain-top mining, if done responsibly, allows for land to be developed for community space.

Ah yes, mountain-top mining isn't an ultra destructive form of mining where they just detonate the tops of mines and push the rubble into the valleys below, completely obliterating the surrounding environment. It certainly isn't referred to as the Rape of Appalachia. No, it's just a nice way to get a little extra flat space after that asshole God decided to put a mountain range on top of all that delicious coal.

And really we've all heard about those thriving communities and cities built on top of a flattened mountain. Well actually we haven't, but we have heard about environmental and economic devastation, deformed fish, and people suffering from selenium poisoning, though. Who doesn't enjoy a massive dose of selenium every now and then? Keep up the good work Joe. First you can't admit coal pollutes, now this. Soon you'll be advocating the consumption of coal for breakfast. I await your greed obsessed justification.