Comments | warrior__poet: Coal Cowboy

warrior__poet

Coal Cowboy

Feb 26, 2006 19:39

I just the coolest 60 Minutes piece ever. I didn't know they could do interesting journalism.

Michael - I'm sure you alreay know about this, but I think you'd find it interesting either way.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/24/60minutes/

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warrior__poet February 26 2006, 18:31:37 UTC

This guy had me convinced, that's for sure.

But this had me chuckling a minute into the interview..

"Why wouldn’t we create an economic engine that will take us into the next century, and let those sheiks and dictators and rats and crooks from all over the world boil in their own oil?" Schweitzer said at a press conference.

Schweitzer has called them rats and crooks and hasn't held back on bit. "Hugo Chavez, the Saudi royal family, the leaders of Iran," he said. "How about the countries that end with 'stan'? Nigeria? You tell me. Sheiks, rats, crooks, dictators, sure."

supedujour February 26 2006, 17:35:54 UTC

I agree that we could use more coal, but the problem with this type of mining, is that it is messier than just what is released into the atmosphere. You have to have lived around mines to know what I mean. You have orange sulfer grease amd frothy lime and phosphates released into local water supplies. Virgin forest is destroyed, and usually replaced with pine.

I'm not a real big tree hugger, but I do hug a few trees from time to time. I hated strip mining in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. It dstroys the Earth. Maybe on a plain it wouldn't be so bad, but I didn't want to see it anymore where I lived.

warrior__poet February 26 2006, 18:34:20 UTC

Yea, I'd have to take your word for it, because I know nothing about mining or anything of that sort. But listening to a politician on 60 Minutes had me convinced.

Now that I just wrote that, I need to go wash my mouth out with soap. Although, his charm sucked me in when he called Hugo Chavez a rat.

If I ever get a minute, I may look into it more to see what's up.

supedujour February 26 2006, 19:13:29 UTC

I can certainly understand that, and I belive we could do more mining, but we need to understand how to ease the environmental impact of such mining. It's just horrendous, and I sure wasn't impressed with the standards of putting the land back as it was.

Please don't tell any of the liberals on my list that I was arguing on behalf of the environment.