Just a heads-up for those not regularly reading Page One.
Your best friend, coal shill Steve Beshear, is pulling some shiz in Frankfort today:
What could Governor Steve Beshear do to ruin I Love Mountains Day and draw necessary attention away from the anti-mountaintop removal gathering?
Why, work to arrange and promote another gathering at the exact same time and exact same place.
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It’d be easy to overlook this as a scheduling coincidence if the governor and his crew weren’t consistently working on behalf of King Coal– like in Wheelright the past week. And if several closed-minded white guys (coal shills, it should be noted) who have a history of saying things like “African-American blacks” weren’t featured prominently.
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4 responses so far ↓
1 spencer // Feb 11, 2010 at 4:33 pm
you know its kind of a shame when you live in a state with one of the richest and wealthest resources on the planet and because of the bad image stamped on it and the failure of corporations to utilize clean coal upgrades to their factories that we as taxpayers have to always dream about what could have been.
Indiana took gaming and throughly exploited it to the point that its paying dividends now and for generations to come…all kentucky can do is hope on what could have been.
Living here for 35 years i watched every politician,hospital rep,television,news you name it take our number one cash crop and destroy tobacco and the way of life for anyone living in this state.
Since the eighties they still are trying to figure out what they can do to suppliment the lost revenues,jobs,tax base,growth that tobacco brought to kentucky… all it did was turn around and give it to virgina,tennessee,and other southern states who once again have made more money off tobacco than we ever will…meanwhile i remember the state telling one of our local farmers to grow tomatoes…that would be a positive alternative that this cancer ridden,life destroying plant…hey heres a idea lets work on altering the plant to lower the tar and other bad elements and continue to try and make it work….nope. Well i said all that to say this here we are again with coal….and guess what all you hear is how dirty it is and how bad it is for the enviroment and how expensive it would be to upgrade coal plants to be clean …..i cant wait till the start subsitizing the coal industry to not mine coal just the way they did with farmers to not grow tobacco. Meanwhile more folks will leave kentucky and the tax base will shrink and the ones left will fit the bill….but govenor by all means lets build a crappy useless casino that has already been done by every state around us so that there is someplace to cash all these welfare checks that we will be living on.
2 jake // Feb 11, 2010 at 4:58 pm
Uh, I think something called CANCER and countries that grow it cheaper killed tobacco as a cash crop?
Clean coal technology doesn’t yet exist. So how could anyone upgrade?
We already subsidize the coal industry.
3 spencer // Feb 12, 2010 at 10:28 am
i have had a rjr rep and a philip morris rep tell me the only reason there companies went overseas to buy tobacco is because of this goverments policies over the last 30 years.
you make my point exactly…clean coal technology does exist but companies refuse to go foward with it and expand the technology…they are waiting for the goverment to give some tax incentive and the goverment is trying to make it manditory but overwhelming the industry with restrictions.
yes we do…just like the tobacco industry…they will do it more and more until they ruin it.
4 jake // Feb 12, 2010 at 10:48 am
Yeah, regulating tobacco & additives because they cause cancer = terrible policy.
Prove that clean coal technology exists. You can’t. Kentucky and other state governments have offered up billions on that front. Not just tax incentives. But no dice.
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