On Sunday April 25, 2010, President Barack Obama attended the memorial service in West Virginia for the 29 miners who perished in the nation’s worst mining disaster in 25 years. During his speech to the families Obama praised the coal miners and “the fruits of their labor that so often we take for granted.”

“Five miles into a mountain. The only light, the lamp on their caps. Day after day they would burrow into the coal. The fruits of their labor that so often we take for granted. The electricity that lights up a convention center; that lights up our church or our home our school our office. The energy that powers our country. The energy that powers the world.“

President Obama praised the coal industry at the miner memorial service.

Today the Obama Administration, for the first time ever, blocked an already approved bid to build one of the largest mountaintop removal coal mines in Appalachian history.
The Politico reported:

The Obama administration Thursday reversed a Bush-era decision and blocked a bid to build one of the largest mountaintop removal coal mines in Appalachian history.

For the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency is revoking a permit already issued, taking back its approval for Arch Coal’s Spruce No.1 mine in southern West Virginia. EPA said the mine would cause unacceptable damage to local waterways and public health.

EPA’s decision is a major victory for environmental groups, who have fought against the mine since it was proposed more than a decade and cements agency administrator Lisa Jackson’s status as their environmental hero. The George W. Bush administration had approved the Clean Water Act permit in 2007.

“In sharp contrast to the previous administration’s policies on mountaintop removal coal mining, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is showing a strong commitment to the law, the science and the principles of environmental justice,” Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune said today. “She deserves enormous credit for changing policies to protect Appalachia’s health, land and water.”

But EPA’s critics are vowing to battle the decision in the courts, Congress and the White House.

Remember: When democrats say they want to supply America with affordable energy alternatives – They’re lying.

Related… Dems blow $58 million on solar plant.

When Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration bankrolled a solar panel company with $58 million to help it build a manufacturing plant in Devons, it hoped that the state would become a hub for a booming solar energy industry. But that’s not what happened.

Instead, less than two years since it opened its doors, Evergreen Solar is closing its plant and laying off 800 workers there. The company plans to expand its operations in China.

Hat Tip Gini

 

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  1. #1 January 13, 2011 at 8:01 pm

    newrouter commented:

    the civil war over federalism

  3. #3 January 13, 2011 at 8:08 pm

    chuck in st paul commented:

    I think my winter home in the Philippines is going to be my permanent home the way this is going. Add to this a 600MW coal power plant is going down shortly because the EPA dorks reneged and are forcing them to do full modern upgrades instead of the ones agreed to making the plant uneconomical to operate if the new costs are taken into consideration.

    When the lights go out in NJ and NY, don’t call me. I’ll be sitting in my air conditioned home enjoying a pina colada. ha ha ha ha ha

  5. #5 January 13, 2011 at 8:08 pm

    Christian Soldier commented:

    when democrats and some republicans say ANYTHING-they are lying!!!!
    C-CS

  7. #7 January 13, 2011 at 8:15 pm

    kansas commented:

    Gas is getting pretty high again too. When Bush was President and it got this high it was because there was oil men in the White House. I’m starting to think that might not have been true.

  8. #8 January 13, 2011 at 8:24 pm

    StrangernFiction commented:

    I guess Together We Thrive doesn’t include coal miners in West Virginia.

  9. #9 January 13, 2011 at 8:25 pm

    The All Real Numbers Symbol commented:

    So how much more of this crap is Odummer allowed to get away with before we can call high crimes and/or misdemeanors and impeach him?

    Doesn’t bankrupting America and trying to drive us all into a new stone age technically count as a misdemeanor?

  10. #10 January 13, 2011 at 8:34 pm

    KB commented:

    Obama and his administration sure knows how to “act stupidly”!!

  11. #11 January 13, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    FGT commented:

    This has got nothing to do with protecting mother earth.

    I see another big wave of “political justice” in 2012.

  12. #12 January 13, 2011 at 8:36 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    The Obama plot for a carbon tax

    [Lacking the 60 votes necessary for cap-and-trade, the administration
    plans to get behind a more modest conservation measure in the Senate,
    then push for a carbon pricing mechanism during the conference committee
    merger with the House bill — and do so during a lame-duck session after
    the midterms, when victorious Democrats will find it easier to make a
    tough vote and losing ones will be freed of political constraints.]

    well the Dems losing threw a wrench into that plan, but i have no doubt
    Obama et al have several back-up plans.. hey, all they need to do is put
    a new name on the bill, blackmail a few RINO’s and whala, Obama care,
    act 4, scene 3, part duex, stage left & score one more for the Oman..

    (btw, there are other sources & more info out there, so please do some
    research before it all gets sucked up by Omans black hole machine, not
    to mention net censorship, yes, that’s already here.. most people don’t
    notice how many articles & info have gone “poof”, or been deleted from
    YT since Obama was selected to be the god of the elites.. and we ain’t
    seen nothin’ yet..)

    ==

  13. #13 January 13, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    tommy mc donnell commented:

    no gas, no coal no oil, no nuclear energy. thats the way to jump start this economy. do people realize that if you do what the enviromentalists want there is no way that man can survive on this planet.

  14. #14 January 13, 2011 at 8:44 pm

    Hedgehog commented:

    Commies! Traitors! Scum!

  15. #15 January 13, 2011 at 8:46 pm

    Radegunda commented:

    I guess “environmental justice” means “push energy prices beyond the reach of poor people.”

  16. #16 January 13, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    myohmy commented:

    Doubling down? OPEC on side, then Obama on the other.

  17. #17 January 13, 2011 at 8:52 pm

    StrangernFiction commented:

    You’ve got to give the man his props though, he gave a great speech yesterday.

  18. #18 January 13, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    aprilnovember811 commented:

    And to think I heard tonight that the Republicans were going to show goodwill to the CPUSA and sit with them at the SOTU speech. They just don’t get that they are dealing with a very sick psychopath in Obama and the rest. They are such losers. They have no self respect. Would George Washington have sat with King George? I won’t watch anyway, they’ll be hugging him, kissing him, shaking his hand, and saying things like, thank Mr. President for allowing me the honor of licking your shoes. Thank you for destroying the mining industry, thank you for destroying the economy, oh thank you, sir, thank you, for allowing me to breathe the very Co2 that you exhale. Can someone tell me a good place to move my family. I don’t want to live with Obama in the Peoples Temple.

  19. #19 January 13, 2011 at 8:58 pm

    Lindsay commented:

    The main stream media will never give this any coverage. They will wait until the lights go off and then blame Big Coal. This is all in the name of global warming which is being abandoned in most of the first world countries.

  20. #20 January 13, 2011 at 8:58 pm

    Chisum commented:


    “But don’t forget, the people who conclude that the actions of a lunatic prove that the Tea Party inspires violence

    are the same people who conclude that record cold winters are proof of global warming.”
    —Ross Kaminsky

  21. #21 January 13, 2011 at 8:58 pm

    gru57 commented:

    Under Comrade Obama, utility prices will “necessarily skyrocket”. When will the leftist numbnuts realize there will be no place to plug in they’re “electric” vehicles?

    The opposition to The One MUST bring back the misery index asap and broadcast it far and wide across this once great Nation.

  22. #22 January 13, 2011 at 9:00 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    btw, albeit Obama is a puppet, George Soros & his ilk are puppets as well,
    yes, someone pulls their strings in much the same manner he & his ilk pull
    Obama’s.. but most of you already know that, and anyone who believes
    otherwise are probably thinking “there goes that crazy old lady again”, but
    hey, can’t says i blame you, you’re right, what do i know, i research, big
    deal.. besides, i’ve been so wrong about so many things over the past few
    years, oh wait, i got that right, no?? :D

    ==

  23. #23 January 13, 2011 at 9:07 pm

    bg commented:

    ++

    StrangernFiction #17

    oh yeah, perhaps the wrong time, wrong place, but a great speech
    off of the caskets of not too cold yet bodies so to speak.. /*sigh*/

    ==

  24. #24 January 13, 2011 at 9:25 pm

    FGT commented:

    These tree hugging environmental groups are communist organizations and should be shut down.

  25. #25 January 13, 2011 at 9:29 pm

    gus commented:

    Useless prix like CHUCK KRAUTHAMMER need to shut the GAPING MAWS and understand that Obama is DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY.

  26. #26 January 13, 2011 at 9:35 pm

    myohmy commented:

    Soros will be laughing all the way to the bank.

  27. #27 January 13, 2011 at 9:40 pm

    Rock commented:

    Anyone want to bet that gas prices jump again tomorrow? End game gas will be far to expensive for the middle class, and eventually the work force will migrate to the cities where the only housing will be government provided. Want to guess who get the homes outside of the city, Party bosses of course. Well thank you very much silent majority you have truly given your grandchildren a broken and corrupt future. ( _o_) s

  28. #28 January 13, 2011 at 10:34 pm

    donh commented:

    This is what WV deserves for voting in Joe Mansion. Stupid is as stupid does. Inbred generational loyalties to a corrupt mining union bought off to the New World Order .

  29. #29 January 14, 2011 at 12:33 am

    chuck in st paul commented:

    Add to this that the watermellons are nearly about to stop any and all recovery from the Marcellus shales (natural gas). This project would create lots of jobs an give us access to something on the order of 20 TRILLION cubic feet of gas with today’s tech and possibly double that with improved tech.

    But not to worry. I hear futures on unicorn farts are stabilizing an starting to come down. Skittles for everyone!

  30. #30 January 14, 2011 at 6:29 am

    Hedgehog commented:

    “Environmental Justice”? This crap is being pushed by the UN. How much are China, Russia, North Korea, Venezuela and Cuba interested in “Environmental Justice”. Plenty for us. Not so much for themselves. What a crock.

  31. #32 January 14, 2011 at 9:50 am

    kansas commented:

    Spend a billion, re-elect Obama. By 2016 the lights will be out, the party will be over.

  32. #34 January 14, 2011 at 11:24 am

    KathyTheEngineer commented:

    But how will the lefties recharge their Chevy Volts???? They are coal-powered vehicles!

  33. #35 January 14, 2011 at 11:43 am

    Henry Hawkins commented:

    Democrats may now kiss a permanent good-bye to PA, WV, VA, TN, etc.

  34. #36 January 14, 2011 at 1:52 pm

    donabernathy commented:

    It’s Sarah Palin’s Fault

    roflmao

  35. #37 January 14, 2011 at 3:59 pm

    nugy commented:

    if the coal miner are union i don’t see why they are whining

  36. #38 January 15, 2011 at 6:29 am

    Agent99 commented:

    Not all Coal Miners are Union!!
    This assault on our Energy Resources will hurt ALL of us.
    The Cattlemen of America and others are coming to the defense of the Coal States. (Per the NYT article)

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