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W.Va. loses out when friends of coal are actively anti-alternative energy

by: Clem Guttata

Fri Apr 10, 2009 at 11:26:46 AM EDT



A big boo, hiss on the actions of W.Va. House of Delegates Speaker Rick Thompson today.

W.Va. House of Delegates Speaker Rick Thompson and other House leaders apparently don't want to even talk about real alternative energy sources.

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House Concurrent Resolution 52  had 6 original cosponsors and 35 cosponsors. But House leaders sent it to committee, and then bottled it up without allowing the public to see where their elected representatives stood whether West Virginia should try to move toward a greener energy future.

Meanwhile, Gov. Manchin's energy bill has morphed from bad to worse and is still moving through the legislature.

Read Ken Ward, Jr.'s whole post for more background and links.  

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Yesterday, 600 West Virginia coal miners lost their jobs due to the drop in demand for coal. Its time to build wind mills, but on the same day the state legislature killed the wind farm resolution because it was "anti-coal".


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