It Is Done… Obama Promised to Kill the Coal Industry – Today His Administration Came Through on That Promise
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, October 15, 2010, 5:03 PM
OBAMA INITIATES COAL-KILLING POLICIES DURING GREAT RECESSION!
“Under my plan of a cap and trade system electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Businesses would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that cost onto consumers.”
Senator Barack Obama
Speaking on Cap and Trade
San Francisco Chronicle
January 17, 2008
In 2008 Barack Obama admitted during an interview with The San Francisco Chronicle that his cap and trade legislation would cause electricity prices to skyrocket and would kill the coal industry:
Obama admitted that cap and trade will likely cost $700 to $1,400 dollars per US family each year.
Today the Obama Administration continued their assault on the American coal industry.
The far left radicals at the Sierra Club announced that Obama EPA officials will not allow mining at the largest mountaintop removal coal mine.
Victory for Appalachians as a Determined EPA Recommends No More Mining at Biggest Proposed Mountaintop Removal Coal Mine
Statement from Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune
Washington, D.C. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took courageous action today to protect the people and waterways of Appalachia when Shawn Garvin, the agency’s Region 3 Administrator, recommended the withdrawal of the mining permit for America’s largest proposed mountaintop removal coal mine site, the Spruce No. 1 Mine in Logan County, West Virginia.
In response Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune issued the following statement:
“The Sierra Club praises the EPA, Lisa Jackson and Regional Administrator Shawn Garvin for staring down Big Coal and industry lobbyists and doing what’s right for Appalachians and hardworking Americans everywhere. This mother of all mountaintop removal coal mines would destroy thousands of acres of land, bury seven miles of streams and end a way of life for too many Appalachian families.
“We stand with the local grassroots heroes who have spent over a decade fighting this largest mountaintop removal coal mine, and today’s announcement is a victory for everyone who has stood up for their air, water and health. While the coal industry has been cutting jobs and cutting corners in Appalachia, clean energy and efficiency investments there could generate almost 80,000 jobs by 2030 and save consumers more than $25 billion in energy costs.*
Remember to thank Barack Obama when your electricity bills go up.
And, why do these awful leftists always lie about their green programs creating jobs?
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 91 Comments
ironbill commented:
Hey Manchin!!! What do you think your chances are now?
tarpon commented:
The first one and done president by year 2.
down with dems commented:
Plentiful domestic resources… don’t use them.
Electricity prices during recession… raise them.
Jobs mining coal… end them.
Sure feels good having a community rabble-rouser in chief, doesn’t it?
tarpon commented:
Obowma is so smart, do those great big socialist teleprompter ears make him smarter.
Maria commented:
You voted for this President. Enjoy, as long a possible. That’s what’s happen when a man in an empty suite ask for a CHANGE. Yes, he changed America, CONGRATULATION
Charlie Gibson commented:
Next energy crisis—coming right up!
Stan25 commented:
Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Montana are next.
newton commented:
Now consumers will have to pay more for electricity. That’s money that doesn’t get spent on food and medicine, the costs of which have gone up as well. This will affect even those who have been unemployed for a long time.
This, plus the increase in health costs due to that damned Obama”care”, will bring the US into a perfect storm of total ruin for millions upon millions of people, including the middle class.
Obama is intent of destroying this nation, especially after November 2nd. There will come a time when We The People will have enough of him.
The Devil knows he has very little time. So does Obama.
donh commented:
Since when does the Sierra Club have the authority to dictate and announce official EPA policies? This authority belongs to the people through Congress and their state governments.
MommyMagpie commented:
“… end a way of life for too many Appalachian families.”
and what about the Appalachian families whose wage-earners would have worked at this mine had the permit been approved? Coal mine = job. No coal mine = no job.
Add this to our very own cap and trade, http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2009/11/19/manchin-seeking-to-amend-his-new-energy-law/, and family-friendly language cannot adequately express my outrage.
Craig commented:
It may not be time to take up arms . . . yet!
We are under absolute assault. These Marxists are determined to destroy private property rights and thereby the best security we have for liberty. They have the inside track through bureaucracies built over decades in Washington and have the complicity of GOP squishes in Congress. We may be too late.
All of this coupled with the attacks on DeMint, the “moderate” nature of GOP leadership in Congress and a determined Marxist in the Oval Office and Bernanke entering into more shenanigans, I’m losing hope that this can be resolved without a lot of pain, a lot more than people realize right now. The GOP will win Congress, maybe both houses but to what end? That Pledge or whatever it is doesn’t inspire and it isn’t as vigorous as the Marxists who would thwart us.
We have to stop apologizing for saying we’ll reform Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid. We have to stop apologizing for saying we’ll dismantle the EPA, Department of Education, Department of Energy and fire everyone there. We have to purge the federal bureaucracies of the statists embedded throughout from top to bottom. I don’t think we’re nearly radical enough!
Alana commented:
“This, plus the increase in health costs due to that damned Obama”care”, will bring the US into a perfect storm of total ruin for millions upon millions of people, including the middle class.”
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He especially, and most particularly, wants to destroy the middle class. Which he hates with a particular passion.
To him, there are special, superior people who deserve to be on top, run things, and have the best of everything. (That group would include him, of course; and ideally, only those he personally decides belong in it.)
Everyone else should damn well suffer at the same level. Why should some people have more than those on the bottom? Put them all on the bottom! When no one has anything left, redistribute the crumbs equally.
jerryl commented:
well everyone knew what obama intended and we can blame these coal miners for this beacuse the coal states all voted for obama like WVA OHHIO PA ect so blame these minmers first for this then the epa and then obamao
befuddled commented:
80,000 jobs by 2030 and save consumers more than $25 billion in energy costs.
Woohoo, count me in (does happy dance). moving to where the jobs are at in 2030! do i have to wait to put in my job application? wow, $25 billion in savings, why the hell didn’t we do this ages ago?
neomom commented:
I wonder how much money the United Mine Workers Union gave to Obama?
befuddled commented:
IOWAHAWK DOES IT AGAIN:
I’M SORRY. THAT IS AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?
>IGNORE CONSTITUTION
>GIVE SPEECH
CONGRATULATIONS! YOUR SPEECH HAS WON NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?
>PRINT GOLD
WHERE DO YOU WANT GOLD TO GO TO?
>CONSTRUCTION SIGNS, WHATEVER
YOU ARE IN AN OVAL OFFICE. YOU ARE WITH GENERALS. AFGHANISTAN IS GOING BAD. IRAN IS BUILDING NUCLEAR BOMBS. WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?
>PLAY GOLF
HEALTH CARE BILL NOW COST $1 TRILLION. HOW WILL YOU PAY?
>PRETEND IT COSTS $0
Joe College commented:
I hope this costs them W. Va.
Chisum commented:
As usual The Wonce’s timing is impeccable. Gee, isn’t that the perfect time to announce that you’re killing an industry? Just before an election?
He’s soooo smart! Did you know he went to Columbia? And that he’s a Constitutional Law Professor?
Prostrate yourself before him in abject humility.
Haters!
Mark1957 commented:
Stupid liberals, instead of taking the top off of one mountain and get millions of tons of coal, they will need to put those damn wind turbines on every single Appalachian mountain top in order to produce half as much energy.
aprilnovember811 commented:
This will be wonderful amunition for John Raese. Obama is King of the World. He can shut down coal mines, shut down drilling, force everyone to buy health care. Pretty soon, he’ll be ordering dissidents shot! I’d bet he’d do it if he felt he could get away with it. He’s a psychopath!
DocScience commented:
I don’t know about you, but I am going to buy some unicorns to power my house.
aprilnovember811 commented:
Pray when he goes to Mumbai, he doesn’t come back. I hope the guy from Iran sends someone to get him.
gus commented:
HOPE and CHANGE. You libtards asked for it.
Do you mentally ill libtards LIKE UNEMPLOYMENT??
bitterclinger commented:
Hello, Senator Raese!
Jon commented:
Raese needs to get this out in an ad immediately and tie this to Manchin and Obama. He would be up 10% in a matter of days.
trillions commented:
why is BHO always blamed by the right for this unemployment and recession ? it’s obvious the previous admin. passed most legislation/policy that led to this. i don’t agree with making the situation worse, i.e. killing industry, but you have to admit most of the damage was done pre-2009.
Not Likely commented:
Jim Hoft: Ignorant to the real issues with mountaintop removal, unwilling to educate himself when he can get in a quick nonsensical jab at Obama. Does it hurt to be so ignorant Jim?
wolfwalker commented:
Barry Lackwit’s various verminous vices notwithstanding, mountaintop removal is a sucky way to get coal. There are other methods that are not as environmentally destructive.
bitterclinger commented:
If this is Barry’s crew’s idea of winning back the base, it’s a pitiful attempt. The percentage of crazy leftists (vs. the average American voter) is miniscule. He’ll now lose on-the-fence voters concerned with coal in PA and Ohio, too.
Sickofobama commented:
Not Likely:
Well Mr. Smart Liberal,
Enlighten us with your wisdom concerning mountaintop mining.
Us commoners know people are willing to risk their lives to work in mines.
What do you do for a living? Sit behind a computer?
You are complete boob.
gus commented:
Country in great shape until
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, then Dem Congress.
It’s gotten worse and worse under Obama’s lack of leadership.
Obama couldn’t lead himself to the BOYS ROOM without help and a teleprompter.
NICE TRY KOS TROLLIES!!
gus commented:
Hey Trillions, take a look at the calendar, the CONGRESS, the SENATE and get a fu@#ing clue.
Obama owns this. You own this.
theBuckWheat commented:
I don’t like coal because there are clean alternatives, the first being nuclear power. However we can see an agenda of economic destruction at work here simply because the coal industry is under unnecessary attack and nuclear power is getting damnation by faint bureaucratic approval.
The socialistas have no concept of the necessity of reliable sources of power. The time is long past when we have sufficient money to entertain their worthless and dangerous demands. If we do not vote these useful idiots out of office, we will be debt serfs to their foreign ideological masters.
Sasja commented:
Obama is doing exactly what he set out to do from the start. Destroy America and bring her citizens to their knees. He needs to be thrown out of office before 2012 and his minions with him. He is a devil.
aprilnovember811 commented:
When he goes to Mumbai, I hope there is a terrorist waiting for him.
http://www.heritage.org/Search?query=Energy%20and%20Environment
midwestengr commented:
Way off topic here….
How sweet was it watching tbs showing George W. while singing “God Bless America” during the game tonight?
ogee commented:
Hold up a second. It’s costly to us and jobs are lost but this is a “caught between a rock and a hard place” situation. (Oregon went to a similiar thing when logging jobs were lost in the early 80′s and pulled out of it with job retraining)
The devastation to the most beautiful pristine mountains that God ever produced is gut wrenching. You really need to look at the destruction to the appalachians going on now. There are thousands affected by the poisoned trailings and run off. They are being poisoned out of their homes down stream of the mountain.
Seeing the tops of the mountains blown to smithereens makes beauty lovers and artists cry.
Google it and see pics of the devastation going on daily. It’s one of the world’s eco largest systems/rainforests and must stay intact.
Do not destroy what God put here for a reason. It’s one of the largest rain forest left. Don’t destroy it.
Maria commented:
Oh, goody – and right before winter, too.
Craig Bardo commented:
Jim,
You’re attracting a lot of Marxist trolls!
Finncrisp commented:
And the hits just keep on coming-
1) Ban incandescent light bulbs – last light bulb plant closed recently. Future lightbulbs from overseas, made with that “green toxin” mercury.
2) Curtail off shore drilling – 30,000 jobs lost. Followup action to loan other countries money for… offshore drilling.
3)Mandate green energy goals – Make the key wind mill components overseas.
4) Stimlus money for high speed rail no one will use in a practical way – Key components overseas because we have no domestic technology base.
5) Stimulus Money to Finland to make a”green” electric sports car costing an estimated 85K per car.
The only jobs Barry and the DemoRATS are creating are overseas; the only jobs they ae defending are of illegals, and the lawyers that sue our own states. THis is their blueprint for Amerika, comrades.
Sickofobama commented:
ogee:
God knew in order for man to survive we would need to use the resources on earth to do that.
People have been mining for hundreds of years in order to make a living. Are you going to deny them that over beauty?
Come on – have a heart!
Simon commented:
It’s some of the most back breaking work imaginable, but I’d mine there for a day or two to keep Dickless at the EPA in flushes.
Stephana commented:
Lock and load.
bob commented:
I live in the Tri-State of Ohio, WV & Ky.
On the local news last night, the reported that 500 coal miners in WV will lose their jobs due to this.
These environmentalists don’t go after anyone that builds a house on the side of a mountain, and then after a rain, it slides down into another’s house!
Our electric company is AEP, last Nov. our winter heating bill was $146, in Dec. it raised to $342!
They got a rate increase, then went back and asked for another, this time, stating it was due to the costs of coal….if you don’t mine coal, and there is less..of course prices rise!
I hate to see our heating bill this year!
These environmental groups are hypocrites…they never mention the destruction done by illegal aliens in the desert and our mountains, never even clean up the mess..it is citizens in border States that clean up the mess.
Just as they don’t go after home owners building on a mountain side!
They & Obama doesn’t care one bit that these miners and their families will not have a way to make a living, and yes they do want to work in the mines, and they do make a good salary.
The argument that some get killed is foolish, we have had more people killed by illegal aliens, and accidents on highways than in coal mines, or on an oil rig! So, don’t buy that!
Massey Energy is at fault on many things, but if you see the pictures of their mountaintop restoration, it sure looks alot better than those houses on the tops of mountains in California!
They plant grass, trees and wild life returns!
arab mole commented:
Are you kidding me? Done pre-2009? Geez.
O raised the price of GRAIN 3x–so now meat we buy is tripled–he took over the fishing markets-fish will be sky high–he closed our parks in CA-he closed water to 80K acres-he took over college loans-all used cars are gone-cash for clonkers–he ruint the mortgage industry (he sued citi bank to lower interest rates forwelfare &illegals)–he allowed more illegals into the country “free ride” hospitlals are shutting down due to the cost of illegals-our retirees and teenagers can’t find jobs due to the illegals-he shut down NASA science exploration –replaced it with educating the muslims-islamics–now Branded Prepscription will raise ALL drugs,vitamins 3x-from the fees–to the pharmacy companies—he sold our rigs to brazil-he put a cap on drilling(millionsof jobs gone) we don’t shutdown FAA when a plane crashes??do we? on&on–and this was pre-2009? liberals destroyed America they voted for HIM!
Gary commented:
Ogee is correct. Look at the pictures. This devestation should not be allowed. Put the conserve into conservatism. Mountaintop removal is the epitome of environmental devastation. We conservatives should be the most ardent of enviromentalists, since we don’t want to saddle our children with debt, we should also want to pass on a good environment.
aprilnovember811 commented:
Environmentalism is a front for marxism. These people act as though they own this country and I’ve had enough. One of the first orders of business, defund the EPA, and the first chance we get, shut it down. It needs to be shut down permanently. Groups like the Sierra Club don’t get to dictate to the rest of America how we need to live. Put the EPA employees in the unemployment line. All of these agencies are unconstitutional.
bob commented:
You can see restoration pictures here:
Environmental groups do not show these pictures.
http://www.slideshare.net/tlheadley/special-mountaintop-mining-powerpoint-finished
Anna commented:
This morning Manchin’s numbers are up in the polls! This race should not even be close. If this is what the people of W. Va. want–go for it! This is the same mentality that put this totally unqualified boob in office to begin with!
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Bob’s #54 slideshow blows a giant, gaping hole in Ogee and Gary’s arguments.
These are not Saruman’s orcs, laying waste to the earth and moving on to the next scene of devastation. (While laughing “gwa-ha-ha!” and rubbing their greedy hands together….) That’s only what the enviro-nuts want you to believe, not even a dim caracature, but a fantasy.
You have to make your enemy a real devil (to justify the hatred), so you have to ONLY show “stage one”, and pretend that no other stage exists in the process. You have to make your enemies real Lex Luthor-types, and since reality doesn’t do that, you have to invent, distort, and omit.
Conservatives don’t hate the earth. We live here too.
Go see the slideshow.
margaret commented:
mtr with its dynamite and huge draglines
has led to the loss of hundreds of thouand undergrounnd mining jobs
egn93957ye commented:
“Obama admitted that cap and trade will likely cost $700 to $1,400 dollars per US family each year.”
What does cap and trade have to do with revoking a mining permit due to environmental concerns?
And what about the families that live in the area? If you would get out of the city and out into the countryside you might come to realize, like the people who live out there, that there are some things more important the energy devouring, smoke spewing cities. City people ARE NOT more important than the countryside and the people who live there.
Would you like a nuke plant, oil refinery, or coal mine in your back yard?
Elmo commented:
Put your seat belts on peeps (a helmet ain’t a bad idea neither):
(37 seconds/side impact/slow mo car crash)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAOFn_7igYc
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midwestengr
October 15th, 2010 | 8:39 pm | #37
Dang … I missed that. Thanks for sharing!
Anna commented:
I have an oil refinery in my back yard and I like it just fine. My state has weathered the Obama administration!
greenfairie commented:
So how are we supposed to power those electric cars without coal to produce the electricity?
Francesca commented:
Re #37: I saw W at the game, and I felt like crying. All I could think about was the shocking contrast between Obama and W. We are in such deep trouble that it is hard to even comprehend the severity of our situation. How are we ever going to get out of this? Where is a true Republican statesman when we desperately need a real leader?
ogee commented:
IF YOU HAVEN’T RESEARCHED THE DEVATATION
THEN YOU REALLY DO NOT KNOW.
Oregon went through a similiar thing with clear cutting and raping the environment. They pulled through it. They got retraining and new jobs. All’s well now. Forests are managed now. Not raped.
Google it or otherwise don’t call me a troll.
Look at the pics. See the people down mountain losing everything and being poisoned out of their homes. I’m an artist and this is God’s eco system. Don’t destroy it. It’s the most beautiful in the world. GREED is what it is. Blowing off tops of God’s eco system destroys more than you can imagine.
$700 per household per year is a small pitence to pay to save mother earth from rape. Use of resources and rape of resources are two different things.
Read about people being destroyed from the runoff.
SOB is only a puppet.
ogee commented:
W is part of the Bilderbergers and in bed with BHO, Clinton etc. Neo con is what he is. He let the mortgage market crash and said ” we are not in a meltdown”. Get a grip. Funny how you forget he sold us down the river with his Patriot act and set the stage for BHO. (not to mention his 9/11 issues and “mission accomplished”)
One big party socialist dems and neo cons. Funny. It’s like the woman who gets beaten only to miss her abuser.
TEA PARTY is the only one we can trust.
PLEASE. Pick the person not the party.
See how they can switch parties at a drop of a hat. That’s because they are all phonies in it for the perks and not for the people. The partisan shet is for the birds. Not affiliated. I pick what’s best for my strategy. Skip the wedge issues. They help no one good win.
ogee commented:
CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA–When you flick on the lights this evening, think of Kayford Mountain. Or what was Kayford Mountain, but now is a sprawling, muddy, trembling construction site 100 metres below Larry Gibson’s home.
Three years ago, Gibson hunted wild boar here, picked gooseberries and peaches, and sat under the shade of white oaks and hickories so thick he couldn’t see the sky.
“Now, you can see the sky below your feet,” Gibson says.
The boars have long scurried away. The trees have been reduced to a heap of pulp. The gooseberries have been bulldozed, replaced by rows of explosives. Just past the “Do Not Enter” sign, the mountain has been brought to its knees – cut down like a giant tree. Instead of gazing 200 metres up to its peak, as Gibson once did, you peer down at its rubbly remains, clawed at by giant shovels and trundled off by bucking yellow dump trucks.
There are no birdsong or rustling leaves – just beeping and grinding, and sounds like a 747 taking off.
ogee commented:
Some say as many as 470 mountains in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia have been flattened this way. For the industry, it’s a financial jackpot – fast, cheap and thorough. But for the mountains, and the communities nestled between them, it’s war.
Their homes have been flooded, walls cracked, wells poisoned, streams polluted; their jobs have been forfeited, cemeteries unearthed and communities abandoned. Many suffer from early-onset dementia and kidney stones. And they’ve lost their ancestral home.
“We’re mountain people. You don’t understand our connection with the land,” says Gibson, who traces his heritage back 120 years to this very spot. He had never ventured beyond the company store, halfway down the mountain, until he was 11. “We didn’t live on the land, we lived with it.”
People who live here think of themselves as collateral damage – accidental victims of a war to feed the nation’s insatiable demand for energy.
ogee commented:
Many wonder how coal companies justify blowing up the oldest mountains on the continent. Is it because it’s more profitable for them? Because it employs fewer miners? Nope, according to the coal companies, they are blowing up mountains because the Appalachians need more land for economic development.
We put that theory to the test and found that the promise of “reclaimed” flat land for economic development is a big, flat lie.
Don Rodrigo commented:
Why would this edict be passed in a part of the country where hunting rifles and shotguns are in almost every household?
Patrick Sperry commented:
This really makes us folks in Wyoming wonder what will be next. Our state depends on coal mining, and those high paying jobs to exist. Sure, we also produce more uranium than any other state, but where are the new nuclear power plants..?
The epic fail obama is determined to destroy America, come hell or high water…