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Peabody Energy is lying about the cleanliness of this new coal/gas powerplant. What they don't want you to know is that while it is somewhat cleaner burning than older powerplants, it is still horrifically polluting land, air, and water on a massive scale.
Peabody Energy doesn't want you to know that they produce the gas for this plant (and hundredes of others) by pumping nearly 500 chemicals into America's water table in a process called Fracking. Peabody Energy doesn't want you to know that Dick Cheney allowed the industry to aquire private and public lands for "thousands" of gas fracking sites accross our nation.... or that Dick Cheney exempted the industry from the Clean Water Act and The Clean Air Act so that none of these chemicals or their affects on people and the environmnet would need to be reported to anyone. Americans who live near these fracking sites are getting sick from contaminated water. In some cases, the water even catches fire right out of the household tap.
Peabody Energy doesn't want you to know that the Bush administration's environmental advisor, who is trained as a lawyer, and also an executive in the petroleum industry: changed Official Climate Change Reports (meant to be seen by the american public)and written by the leading PhD Scientist on environment at Nasa'a Goddard Center. This lawyer/petroleum executive changed this PhD scientists words from: global "warming is a threat" to "might be a threat." This lawyer/petroleum executive changed: " the fossil fuel industry contributes to green house gases" to "does not contribute to green house gases."
Peabody Energy doesn't want you to know that since the very beginning of the fossil fuel industry, governmnent has always been on the side of the industry owners, and not on the side of the industry workers, or the rest of the people who live near their operations, both overseas, and right here at home on U.S. soil.
Peabody Energy doesn't want you to know that the fossil fuel industry as we know it has only existed for 150 years, and that since the 1970's we have known that the fossil fuel industry could cause our own human extinction, and the taking of all other life on earth with us, if we don't change what we are doing, which of course, we havn't yet.
Peabody Energy doesn't want you to know that the other two biggest electricity produces in America (Duke Energy and Massey Energy) follow the same practices, and are guilty of causing the same national and global destruction that they are guilty of.
Peabody Energy doesn't want you to know that natural gas can blow up in huge fireballs from damaged pipelines that run right through populated places like San Bernadino, CA and Bellingham, WA both of wich have had explosions that have killed people and destroyed homes. Peabody Energy doesn't want you to know that transporting CNG (compressed natural gas) is EXTREMELY dangerous.
Peabody Energy doesn't want you to know that BILLIONS of gallons of midwest groundwater which has been there since the ice age: has been completely drained and contaminated to make coal slurry, so that coal too, could also flow through pipelines. This water, like the water contaminated by fracking could have been used to grow crops but is so contaminated that it is no longer usable for human/animal consumption or crops.
Peabody Energy doesn't want you to know that coal mines can blow up and kill workers, or that they are blowing up entire mountains to get to the coal. Peabody Energy doesn't want you to know that the coal industry causes severe respiratory problems for people living near mines, mountain tops, coal fired powerplants, and the trains which carry the coal to the powerplants.
Peabody Energy doesn't want you to know that Fracking for natural gas is necessary because we are almost out of natural gas, and that the cost of natural gas will skyrocket because of this. Peabody Energy doesn't want you to know that "Peak Oil" means that the world consumes more oil than we can produce, and that we have already found all the oil there is to find, and that there is no more to discover. Peabody Energy doesn't want you to know that the price of gasoline and oil will also skyrocket.
Peabody Energy doesn't want you to know that the reason they still want to use coal is beacause of their own personal greed. Peabody Energy doesn't want you to know that they do not understand that the "trillions of dollars worth" of coal in america is actually worthless in terms of the future of earth and all of humanity.
At least Peabody Energy told us how much they plan to spend on this new plant, "$3 billion dollars." I have three questions with which to address these corporate/government crimes against nature and humanity:
1. Why not build a Thermal Solar Plant with all that cash?
2. How many Wind Turbines could be built with $3billion dollars?
3. Wouldn't workers in coal, natural gas, oil, and gasoline production be better off with safer jobs in the Clean-Green Energy Sectors?
Those Fuckers are lying that's why!
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