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In an article today in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph a summit planned for July 28th at a local Country Club with the express purpose of rallying everybody they can against initiatives that are designed to reduce carbon emissions and attempt to prove that global warming science is questionable...
By BILL ARCHER Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD — The southern West Virginia and southwestern Virginia business community will receive a briefing on what Bill Raney, president of the West Virginia Coal Association called, “the watershed of the entire Obama administration,” when the Princeton/Mercer County and the Greater Bluefield chambers of commerce as well as the Pocahontas Coal Association host the inaugural Coal Summit on July 28, at Fincastle Country Club.
“The administration is penalizing the public based on science that no one has a consensus on,” Raney said. “There are still differences of opinion on the science of climate change, but Congress is trying to force a consensus on the public because Al Gore thinks you should a consensus.”
The entire article can be read by clicking here. Emphasis mine.
Folks that live in the West Virginia and Southwestern Virginia coal fields deserve better than this. How about a summit where the ignorance and outright falsifications of facts being generated by big coal money can be countered by folks that really understand the environment and the damage being done to our citizens in the cities and hollows they live in?
Those that are denying reality are only interested in continuing to line their pockets while they can. I wonder how welcome those that are opposed to mountaintop removal and understand the damage being done to our mountains and the world's environment would be at this meeting?
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