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Noosa Cottages is an Eco award winning Retreat and Sanctuary for your Queensland holidays in the beautiful Noosa Hinterland, fully self-contained holiday accommodation on 30 private treed acres. Sunshine coast accommodation with panoramic mountain views, offering great value for money.
Noosa Avalon Farm Cottages has five very individual private country cottages from rustic to country elegance and can sleep one to 23 guests. Great for families, honeymooners, romance, children and pets, and business groups in the real Australian bush. Don't forget your marshmallows to toast around your campfire and enjoy a kaleidoscope of stars.
Close to Lake Cootharaba, Cooroy, Pomona, Eumundi, Fraser Island and Cooloola, Enjoy National Parks, kangaroos, lakes and native animals, butterfly and bird watching, walking and horse riding trails, Eumundi markets, art galleries, museums, Majestic Silent Movie Theatre, antiques, restaurants, fishing and swimming.
They are environmentally friendly since 1986 and do not use poisons on Avalon.
Five minutes to your local friendly town of Pomona, quirky and historical, lot of antiques and country shopping, only 90 minutes from Brisbane. The kids will love animal feeding and viewing on the farm. Experience wildlife and farm animals with a focus on revegetation, habitat and education.
Due to current health advice on social distancing, please contact the business for the most up to date information regarding opening times and services.
Kangaroo Lodge is the stunning jewel in Avalon's crown. Surrounded by nine stunning mountains and the rolling countryside of the Noosa Hinterland, it provides panoramic views unrivalled in the district. Watch the gorgeous sunrises and spectacular sunsets, spot wildlife on your doorstep or just kick back and enjoy the natural ambience around you with beautiful antique furniture, Persian carpets, polished timber floors and a relaxing double spa bath, fully self-contained. The exclusive Kangaroo Lodge is the ultimate in country relaxation. Features one queen four poster bedroom and double bedroom (sleeps one to four people).
Heritage Cottage is delightful, perfect for secluded kanoodling for those with love and passion in mind. Evening views of the moon and stars are magnificent. Reverse cycle air-conditioning all within a fully self-contained cottage. All linen, towels and flame effect log heater are supplied for your comfort. Your breathtaking views of Pinbarren Mountain and the rolling hills and valleys, make this your idyllic place to share and enjoy with your loved one. Features queen size bed and double sofa bed.
Come and sit around your campfire at Hideaway Cottage, telling tall stories under the beautiful skies, and a kaleidoscope of stars. The cottage is self-contained looking out over the Noosa Hinterland. Relax on a veranda with views of the rolling hills and valleys. Make this your idyllic place to share with your family and friends. Ceiling fans for those warm summer nights and flame effect log heater for winter getaways. Enjoy your favourite DVDs and a glass of red or a cuppa. Features queen bed, double bed, single bed alcove, sleeping one to five people.
Step back in time to Bottlebrush Cottage, a great rustic mountain cottage. Surrounded by nature and farm animals with beautiful mountain and valley views, it has that idyllic country setting. Rustic outside and very private. Relaxed and cheery interior with a flame effect log heater. A rare find in a modern world, large and roomy, light and romantic. Enjoy your favourite DVDs.
The veranda across the front looks out to Pinbarren Mountain. Don't forget your marshmallows to toast around your campfire and enjoy a kaleidoscope of stars. There is plenty of fire wood to pick up around the paddock, set on 30 private treed acres.
The cottage contains one queen size bed, a double sofa bed, and a small bed suitable for a young child.
Rustic Avalon Homestead is fabulous and big, a great place to kick back on the wide verandas overlooking the surrounding mountains and rolling countryside. Lots of walks, farm animals and native wildlife. Encompassing a myriad beautiful views and golden afternoons. A favourite for country relaxation with natural Kauri pine walls, leadlight picture windows, flame effect log heater and a camp fire out the front. With five metre cathedral ceilings, featuring three bedrooms with three queen beds (sleeps one to six people). A great place to share with family and friends.
Note: Information on listed products and services are provided by the operator and were correct at the time of publishing. Rates are indicative based on the minimum and maximum available prices of products and services. Please visit the operator's website for further information. All prices quoted are in Australian dollars (AUD).


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John Wayne plays a small-town sheriff that arrests the brother of a powerful bad-guy. He enlists the help of an old friend, the town drunk, and Ricky Nelson to keep him in jail.
Starring John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson, Angie Dickinson, Walter Brennan
Directed by Howard Hawks
Running Time - 2:21
Genre - Western
Opened in Theaters - April 4th, 1959 (61 years ago)
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A trip up the Main Tower is a thrilling way to get your bearings on arrival. A high-speed elevator will rocket you up to over 200m above street level in under a minute. From the observation platform you can enjoy unbeatable panoramic views of the city below. If you really feel like treating yourself, there's also a chic restaurant and cocktail lounge on the 53rd floor, where you can marvel at the skyline with an expertly-mixed drink in hand. If you're struggling to pick between the bewildering number of museums on offer, The Städel is a great place to start. It's home to one of the most significant art collections in Germany, with timeless masterpieces by the likes of Botticelli, van Eyck, Bosch, and Vermeer all on display. If you're traveling with kids, a trip to the Naturmuseum Senckenberg is sure to go down a treat. It's one of Germany's largest natural history museums, with an amazing collection of dinosaur fossils, and an equally enthralling display of stuffed birds.
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Who's Your Daddy?
I think she's cute when she's screaming in my ear. I think her poos are cute. I love her to death even when I'm getting out of bed for the fourth time that night.
Yes, I think I'm about done as a contributing member of society. It's all about obsessing over my kids now.
Here's what has surprised me so far about being a parent:
- The amount of time I spend staring at her butt. I mean, not just from a distance. Up close and personal. Usually wiping things off it. And I realize that my parents must have spent plenty of time staring at my butt. That's a little disconcerting.
- When I'm carrying her down the street, I expect everyone I pass to drop to their knees and cry, "Dear God, that's the most beautiful child I've ever seen! Please, tell me how I can join the religion that you must be founding to worship her!" If they don't, I get a little miffed.
- I'm suddenly saying things like, "No, I got a good sleep last night, six hours all up." Previously, six hours sleep would have left me with barely enough energy to drool. Now I'm functional on four.
- How fast I got used to being called "Daddy." I knew it was coming, of course, but it felt completely weird. And then suddenly it didn't.
- Her smell. Why are companies not duplicating this and selling it as perfume or air freshener or something? It's the most incredible thing.
- The amazing frequency with which she waits until the split-second when there's no bib/nappy/diaper and then spits up/poos/wees/all of the above. I mean, come on. This is way past coincidence. It has to be some kind of baby in-joke.
- How scared I am that something might happen to her. Before she was born, I saw ads for products like the electronic monitoring sheet you put under baby's mattress to sound an alarm if she seems to stop breathing, and thought they were just nasty attempts to turn parental fears into cash. I still think that, but now I also think I might buy their products.
- How few photos I have of her when she's awake. Because when she's awake, I'm doing something with her. So I have about a hundred photos and they're all of her sleeping.
Thanks so much for all your congratulations. I love being able to share this. More photos to come! I'll even try to get some with her eyes open.
Update: Added one of my favorite pics. And I thought of two more things:
- She didn't look familiar. For some reason, I expected her to look like someone I already knew… I guess because by the time she was born I'd spent so much time talking to Jen's belly and imagining what she'd be like, I felt I did know her. Instead she just looked like a totally real but completely unfamiliar baby.
- How strong she is! If I had that kind of strength-to-body-weight ratio, I'd be out solving crimes in a leotard.


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(Pocket-lint) - If you love movies and the art of cinematography, then you'll almost certainly have heard of, and be excited by, the Red Epic. Following on from the Red One, the Epic is a digital cinema camera that can shoot video that is arguably higher quality than 35mm film. The Epic's signature feature is its Mysterium sensor, which can record 14-megapixel images at a rate of 120 per second.
Stills photographers might not fancy wielding one of these at a wedding, or for holiday photos, but Red calls the Epic a Digital Stills and Motion Camera (DSMC), meaning the company wants it to be viewed as a stills camera as well as a motion picture system. Realistically though, this is most likely to excite videographers who have a passion for cinema, but small budgets (in Hollywood terms).
In the configuration we saw it, you'd have to spend about £30,000 to get one of these. For that money you'd get the body, an 85mm lens and the Redmote. And, honestly, with that setup you could start making video that could be shown in a cinema one day. The only problem would be talent, but then that's never held Michael Bay back.
Red is also crucial in 3D filming. And while you can debate the future of 3D films, as long as there's demand, you'll see Red at the forefront of the march. For a start, digital cinema cameras are much easier to synchronise than 35mm film cameras, and when it comes to 3D, the cameras really do need to be in-sync with each other.
Add to that the weight of the Red Epic. While not light, two of them weigh less than a 35mm film camera does currently. That means you can bang a pair on a Steadicam, or even hand-hold them, without crippling your operator. Certainly a huge selling point.
In the model we saw was a 5k sensor. Red is releasing new models soon that can record an image up to 28k in size. Although it's doubtful these will be used for making movies any time soon. But for special uses, there's some exciting potential here too.
Red also has something called HDRx, which allows the camera to capture two parallel video streams which can be combined in post-production. This is the video equivalent of HDR imaging, allowing you to shoot two separate exposures that give detail in both dark and light areas. The idea is that you get video that resembles what we see through our eyes.
With the Red there are a mountain of extra pieces of kit for you to buy. Everything from shoulder-mount gear to lenses - including a mount for Canon SLR lenses - to matte boxes and every type of accessory that movie makers attach to "rails".
Call us geeks if you like, but seeing the King of digtial video got our heart rate up slightly, and we think the ever reducing cost of high-end equipment is something to be very excited about. While we didn't get to watch any of our footage back, we were impressed by how easy it was to just pick this beast up and use it. 35mm film cameras have never been that accessible to normal people, and even if you did get your hands one one, it certainly wouldn't be a point-and-shoot affair.
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Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Robert Hunter
Some of these days/Mama told you soBackground
You wouldn't listen but now you know
Some of these days/Daddy told you too
but you didn't care what anyone said
and that was the trouble with you
Some of these days/I gave my best advice
Sister told you once but she don't speak twice
Some of these days/Deuce is hard to play
Shake, rattle or roll, there's just one way
Sent you a letter and the letter it read
Shine a little bit of light on me
I been twisting here in the wind
every which way but free
Lay a little of the load on you
if only for company
We got nothing better to do
till the end of the century
Some of these days/Well it's like they say
You play the part but the part don't play
Some of these days/Through a purple haze
you'll look upon your wayward son
and recognize the man you raised
Some of these days/can't go it alone
black-blood rays on waves of stone
Some of these days/hard to tell from night
Seven shades of greay, lonely for the light
Back when you were a sweet little child
when time was so precious and long
everyone told you what was what
it could've been they got it wrong
You weren't brought up to misbehave
but your aptitudes ran that way
Now as the hours till daybreak fall
the courts have nothing to say
Some of these days/runnin' low on time
Some of these days/got the nerve to shine
Some of these days/put your hand in mine
help me up and over this wall
it's a little too high to climb
I don't know if my ticket's still good
been punched so often before
once on a train that was glory bound
from Dallas to forevermore
Once upon a time in Babylon
in the case of a televised war
Again as the cyanide pellets drop
in the tank with the little green door
Some of these days/screw your head on right
Some of these days/hard to tell from night
Some of these days/flight by silver flight
dead men walk on diamond stairs
where the moonlight beckons bright
Some of these days/these days so long
evening delivers up a morning song
Some of these days/catch a falling star
carry it home to me in a Mason jar
I been sitting here all night long
with a pencil and my guitar
Sometimes a line pops into my head
to the tune of a passing car
Sometimes I just stare down the wall
or listen to the radio
An execution is due at dawn
about five miles down the road
Some of these days/deuce is hard to play
shake, rattle or roll, there's about one way
Some of these days/the spots drop off the dice
Faceless cubes melt in your hand
Can't roll again at any price
Some of these days/it could be today
Nothing adds up in the same old way
Some of these days/you just go for broke
Ride on the flames, skate along on smoke
My number's been up for a long long while
Got my bag all packed to go
Walk in Jerusalem just like John
with a shotgun and a bow
Got no use for ingenues
and the jaded are too passé
wondering whether to pcik and choose
or wait until the judgement day
Some of these days/spot on the verge of ruin
take what you saved and shoot the moon
Some of these days/in your fond embrace
drink my way through a bucket of tears
with a smile upon my face
Some of these days/win, lose or draw
stand up in court and fight the law
Some of these days/adjudicate the rules
disarm the devil and protect the fools
Sent a letter to the rose of dawn
Sent it special delivery
In anticipation of her reply
I try to keep my options free
Kiss my back 'cause I'm long gone
in spats in a bulletproof vest
across the waters of the great beyond
to my home back in the west
Some of these days/gonna learn its ways
Some of these days/let me paraphrase
Some of these days/if such days there be
Chew the lock off the latch and walk on out
when there's no one watching me
Some of these days/the fool my mother raised
will step right up into the heart of light
from the valley of the shadow amazed
Some of these days ...
"The general direction of this lyric was conceived on the occasion of the first California execution in decades, under Governor Wilson, which happened in 1992 at San Quentin. I'd been canoeing every day on the Richmond Bay, right outside the prison, during the days leading up to the outrage, and the mounting tension around the Victorian fortress was darkly palpable. The original notion of the lyric was thought up earlier, in response to a query from Oliver Stone about the Grateful Dead doing music for the end credits of JFK, the filming of which had just been completed. The deadline was too imminent, so it went by the boards. This version is somehwat of a palimpsest: bits of the originating theme can be detected here and there."


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Pocket folder contains full-color Respect Life flyers (English and Spanish), eight full-color pamphlet-length articles (perfect for bulletins and vestibule pamphlet racks!) covering major pro-life issues.
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Everyone eventually trades up from the AIM app to IM+ or BeeJive or Meebo, but the free AIM app for the iPad actually looks decent.
It looks like it has Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Twitter "support", as in it shows updates from those services in the "Lifestream" view. Having one app that does both IM and Twitter makes sense though, but just make sure you're typing your private messages in the right place. [iTunes]


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BECCA Mineral Powder Blush: Flowerchild
The powders feel smooth, they are very pigmented so I apply with the faintest touch. One of the great attributes of these blushers is how long they last, there is no change of colour and I get no colour fade at all.
Flowerchild is a slightly coral pink with subtle golden shimmer, the look is luminous and natural.
Swatches L-R: Flowerchild, Damselfly swiped then Flowerchild, Damselfly blended out
I bought this from zuneta.com
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Really lovely shade! I like that it's in between a coral and a pink. :)ReplyDelete
Looks like a really nice shade. I kind of passed these by and went for the palette instead but these definitely seem worth a look. Thanks so much for all your reviews, they always tell me everything I need to know and you always go for the type of products I'm interested in. As I can't get out to the shops as much as I'd like your blog is a great resource xReplyDelete
Tempting, tempting, tempting!! After seeing your side by side swatches I think it will have to be Damselfly. Thanks so much for the great (and tempting) pictures!ReplyDelete
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They both look gorgeous! xReplyDelete
The finish on those looks lovely. More to add to my Zuneta cart! LOLReplyDelete
This blush is absolutely BEAUTIFUL! Gah. Now I think I NEED it! Thanks for the great pictures!ReplyDelete
I love these blushes--my favorites this summer!ReplyDelete
Oh Replica, swatched side-by-side, I just can't decide. I've already taken three trips back to the counter and I can't remember the last time I hesitated so much over a colour choice...ReplyDelete
Nina x
Great review. Both colors are really pretty, but I am particularly drawn to Flowerchild, which appears cooler. I appreciate your comment on their not changing color. Bobbi Brown's powder product so that on me ALL THE TIME. Grrrr.ReplyDelete
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It is a really nice brightening shade :)
Hello NarsCupcake,
Yes, I'm really glad I got it.
Hi Lipstick Luvvie,
Thank you, thats so lovely of you to say. I have noticed that we tend to veer towards the same products ;) I think both shades would really suit you x
Hi Jane,
You know it would be wrong for you not to have at least one ;) I'll be interested to see what the fall blush shades will be like, they looked more nudy/brown toned from the pics x
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They are a great find, I am really getting into Becca x
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I bet your Zuneta wish list is gigantic ;) I sometimes wonder what the total would come to if I ordered eveything I wanted from their site....and that thought scares me.. :)
Hi Elvira,
LOL, what can I say, yes you do need it ;)
Hi Prime Beauty,
They are great summer colours aren't they, I also think they will work wonders in the winter when the skin needs a bit of a perk :)
Hi Nina,
You know my answer to that, buy both, problem solved ;) x
Hello Zuzu's Petals,
Yes Flowerchild would be the better option as its the cooler of the two. I get the feeling you and I have a few issues with BB ;)
Hey Replica! This looks so pretty!!! I swatched both shades and didn't end up getting them but you have me reconsidering!!ReplyDelete
One random unrelated question: a MAC blush that has recently been getting my online attention is Cubic, do you have it/recommend it?
Hi Lakshmi,ReplyDelete
You have more restraint than me ;)
I am really sure that I use to have Cubic quite a long time ago, I didn't keep it and from memeory I think it was a bit dull, too warm slightly dirty looking on my pale skin.


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History of Mississippi Power Southern Company Lignite Plant
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It is enlightening to look back at the process, thoughts, and players in the early plans of Kemper County Lignite Coal Plant.
Worth the risk?
Some Kemper County residents have health and environmental concerns over proposed mine
By Georgia E. Frye / staff writer
Just outside Barbara Correro's rural Kemper County home is an organic garden, where you can see various species of waterfowl and farm animals that provide sustenance for herself, her family and her friends.
But Correro and her daughter, Nancy, fear their organic way of life may be disrupted if a coal plant is constructed within 12 miles of their homes.
"More than anything, their argument with us is that this is a clean gasification plant," Nancy said. "But to cut through it all, there is still going to be a 180-foot-deep hole cut down and then they are going to swath out the land. Where are the animals going to go? Where are you going to go fishing?"
The proposed coal gasification plant would be constructed in the Liberty community in Kemper County. The plant would be built 6 or 7 miles north of the Lauderdale County line, between Highway 493 and Highway 495, and south of Old Jackson Road.
Why a mine?
Tommy Pinkerton, an engineer for Mississippi Power and project manager for the proposed plant, said the company will know in early 2008 if it is feasible to build the plant in Kemper County. If it is, construction will begin in the spring of 2010, and would be up and running by 2013.
The plant would turn lignite into a gas for use as a fuel. Lignite, or "brown coal," is young coal used almost exclusively for electric power generation. It is brownish-black in color and has a high moisture and ash content. It tends to disintegrate when exposed to the weather.
The initial investment in the plant is estimated to be about $1.8 billion, with an annual investment of $200 million to $300 million each year for operation and maintenance of the facility. Mississippi Power Co. received more than $133 million in tax credits from the U.S. Department of Energy for the project as part of the National Energy Policy Act of 2005.
The plant is expected to create about 260 permanent jobs.
Health concerns
Some question whether the much-needed jobs in East Mississippi are worth what some environmental groups believe the plant would do to the environment and the natural heritage of Kemper County.
Kemper County resident Karen Wink's group, the Coalition for a Greener Mississippi, says the jobs aren't worth the health risks associated with a coal plant or worth interrupting Mother Nature.
"There is no possibility in the fact that it is a health issue," Wink said. "Everybody has heard of Black Lung, that's a respiratory disease from coal dust and it's not just miners that are affected by this. The rates of asthma in Virginia and Kentucky and the coal mining areas among the population of children in the area are very high. When they pull the coal out, particulate matter gets into the air and it hangs in the air, and when there is more moisture in the air, particulate matter goes up, and obviously, Mississippi is extremely humid."
But Pinkerton said those health issues are nonexistent with this plant because the lignite is wet when it is pulled out of the ground and no dust particles are present.
"You won't see any coal dust in a lignite mine," Pinkerton said. "There are no explosives used and there will be no run off, no slurry pits, nothing going into the streams and no trucks on the highway."
Differing views
Anthony Topazi, president and chief executive officer of Mississippi Power, said at a December press conference at the Meridian Regional Airport that the technology for the gasification plant was created in Mississippi by the Southern Company, which owns Mississippi Power. He said plans call for the site to be the home of the most advanced, clean coal power plant in the world.
He said instead of burning the coal like is done in a traditional power plant, the coal is heated in the absence of oxygen. The process creates a synthetic gas that is then burned to make power.
But John Wathen, who heads up an environmental watch-dog group, Friends of Hurricane Creek, said the power companies and its cohorts are well-paid to convince people that the plant will not damage the environment.
Wathen said the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 mandates that coal companies reclaim mined land after they are finished extracting the coal. But Wathen doesn't believe that will happen.
"There is no way you can strip mine without disturbing the environment," Wathen said. "Once this is done, they are going to have to bring it back to the way it was — that is impossible."
Wathen's group, Friends of Hurricane Creek, based in Tuscaloosa, Ala., is part of the Waterkeeper Alliance. His job is to monitor the Hurricane Creek Watershed for pollution. He said in all his experience with mines, he has never seen them turn out to the common citizen's advantage.
"It is disemboweling the earth, no matter what name you give it," Wathen said.
Members of another local conservation group, the East Mississippi Foothills Land Trust, which oversees the Chunky Okatibbee Watershed Project, have said they aren't concerned about the proposed plant.
Melissa Pringle of Eco Systems said last week that the strip mine will follow Department of Environmental Quality guidelines.
But Wathen said he has seen over and over again water pollution caused by coal companies such as high levels of mercury. It is the coal companies, he said, that cause the water to be laden with mercury, which makes eating some fish unsafe for pregnant women because it can harm their unborn child.
A lease on the land
Michael Thomas, manager of land, government and public affairs for the North American Coal Corp., said the Red Hills Mine in Ackerman has not caused any health issues in the area. He said the mine is similar to the proposed plant in Kemper County and is heavily regulated by the Mine Safety and Health Administration, which is controlled by the U.S. Department of Labor's office in Birmingham, Ala.
And while he admitted that the mine will temporarily destroy the surface of the land, the law requires them to reclaim it, which they will do to the land-owners specifications if possible.
Thomas said North American Coal Corp. signs a 25-year lease with property owners for the use of their land. He said if the land owner agrees to lease their property to the coal company, the company notifies them within 180 days of the time they will start mining the land.
"At that time, they can take any crops they may have on the land and sell them," Thomas said. "But they have to vacate the property."
He said the company then pays the land owner for the land and any property or improvements they have made to it. He said the coal company pays the landowners royalties for the amount of lignite that would be taken from their land, and when they are done, they reclaim the land and turn it back over to the land owner.
He said for the most part, Kemper County residents have been cooperative. He said they are not required to sign leases with the coal company and if they do not, the company will have to work around them. He said the area in question is around 12,000 acres and about 200 to 300 property owners are involved.
But Wink believes the promise of money and jobs is confusing the real issue, that the mine will forever change the landscape of Kemper County. She said there are other renewable energy sources that Mississippi Power Co. could invest in, such as wind and solar power that could provide much-needed energy while not harming the environment.
But Pinkerton said wind and solar power aren't feasible in Mississippi because it's too cloudy and not windy.
Wathen said that's "hogwash," however.
"When the sun is not out, the wind is blowing because a storm is coming," he said. "But as long as the country is run by extractionists, we will never see the advancement of renewable energy sources. You can only extract so much until there is no more, but the sun shines or the wind blows every day."
Here's a look at the different types of surface mines used to extract coal from the ground. The proposed lignite mine in Kemper County would use surface mining — a type of mining in which soil and rock overlying the mineral deposit is removed.
Surface mining is the opposite of
underground mining, in which the overlying rock is left in place and the mineral is removed through shafts and tunnels.
i Strip mining — the practice of mining a seam of mineral by first removing a long strip of overlying soil and rock. It is most commonly used to mine coal or tar sand. Strip mining is only practical when the ore body to be
excavated is relatively near the surface. This type of mining uses some of the largest machines on earth, including bucket-wheel excavators which can move as much as 12,000 cubic feet of earth per hour.
i Open-pit mining — a method of extracting rock or minerals from the earth by their removal from an open pit or borrow. Although open-pit mining is sometimes referred to as strip mining, the two methods are different.
i Mountaintop removal — a relatively new form of coal mining that involves the mass restructuring of earth in order to reach the coal seam as deep as 1,000 feet below the surface. It is used where a coal seam outcrops all the way around a mountain top. All the rock and soil above the coal seam are removed and the spoil is placed in adjacent lows such as hollows or ravines.
i Dredging — a method often used to bring up water and mineral deposits, it can also recover significant amounts of underwater
minerals relatively efficiently and cheaply.
Additional Information
A West Virginia coal-fired powerplant releasing steam and smokeinto the atmosphere.
Waterkeeper Magazine Winter 2006 http://www.waterkeeper.org
The alarm clock rings even before the sun crests the horizon. You
rub your eyes, flip on the lights, maybe start the coffee pot or turn on the
radio or TV, power up the computer… Your day begins with a surge of energy
consumption that will typically last through the day, only to subside somewhat when the television set is finally switched off in the evening, lights are
dimmed and the house settles down for the night.
But just where is all this electricity coming from?
And is it really just as easy as the flip of a switch?
The Coal Truth
By Cindy Rank, West Virginia Headwaters Waterkeeper
Contributors: Beverly Braverman, Tracy Carluccio, Scott Edwards, Vivian Stockman, Terri Taylor, John Wathen and David Whiteside.
http://www.waterkeeper.org Waterkeeper Magazine Winter 2006
Dirty Power, Dangerous Air
The United States consumes more energy
than any other country in the world.
Electric utility plants dot our landscape
creating power from a myriad of sources —
nuclear, hydro, wind and fossil fuels — yet fifty
percent of our electricity comes from a source
that mankind has been using for over 1,600
years — coal. Today, the United States is home to
almost 1,100 coal-fired utility units, with much
of our coal being torn from the ground in eastern
coal-producing states of Appalachia. And there
are plans to add hundreds more coal-fired power
plants in the coming years. Why? Because coal is
cheap – or at least that's what we're told by
industry and by our government. But how
"cheap" is it really? Are we being told the whole
story about the true cost of coal? What goes on
behind King Coal's black curtain?
Appalachian residents bear the brunt of the health Coal must be mined, transported, washed,
impacts from our reliance on coal transported again, stored, burned and converted
to the electricity that flows through transmis-
The nation is facing a health crisis from coal-fired power plant pollution. EPA has used sion lines and into our homes. Each step of the
research from the American Cancer Society, Harvard School of Public Health and other process is rife with hidden economic and social
research institutions to predict how many premature deaths are caused in the U.S. each year costs, shady backroom politics and harmful
by coal-fired power plant pollution. Clear The Air used this data to develop this map and a impacts on human and environmental health.
power plant pollution locator (available at http://www.cleartheair.org/dirtypower/) that It is a myth that recent technological advances
allows you to get the facts about your state. have somehow solved all the problems associated with the use of coal to power our world.
Energy companies have cast an illusion that the bad days of dangerous mining and dirty burning are over: that strong laws are in place
and law abiding King Coal is strictly following the law. Nothing could
be farther from the truth.
The truth is, there is nothing "cheap" or "clean" about coal. The
cost of burning coal for electricity is far beyond what Americans outside of the coalfields ever consider or imagine. It is not reflected in
this month's utility bill, but in devastated lives and communities,
forests and streams across Appalachia. It is a price we all pay in poisoned waterways and lost cultural and natural heritage.
Mining has always been a dangerous mess. In the 1980's machines
and mining practices developed in the wide-open space, and 100foot thick coal seams of Wyoming were brought east to the steep
hills of the Appalachian Mountains. These practices are unaccept-
Picking Up
Steam able anywhere, but in Appalachia they proved downright apocalyptic. Longwall mining replaced traditional underground mining
while mountaintop removal mining took the place of strip mining.
In the U.S., more than 90 percent of the coal produced is used to Each of these practices is far more massive in scale, requires fewer
generate electricity. And despite its ancient origins and toxic legacy, miners and chews up much more earth; these new technologies for
coal is the fastest growing source of energy. Worldwide coal extracting coal have raised the level of destruction to new heights.
consumption has increased 25 percent over last four years.
Coal-fired power plants produce 52% of our nation's electricity.
Pollution from power plants cuts short the lives of nearly 24,000
Americans nationwide every year.
Coalfields of Appalachia
Waterkeeper Magazine Winter 2006 http://www.waterkeeper.org
Longwall Underground Mining
Most coal today is mined underground, and much of
that comes from longwall mining operations where
huge (1,500 feet or wider) toothed machines tear into the
ground, chewing out all the coal in one to two mile under-
Longwall panels are lined upseparated by un-mined "gates"
where the surface remains
supported. Subsidence averagesthree to five feet. Each panel is up to1,500 feet wide and two miles long.
ground swaths, called panels. The cut coal falls onto a conveyor for removal to the surface.
In traditional deep mining, pillars of coal were left to
support the earth, leaving the surface relatively unaffected. Longwall mines, in contrast, remove virtually all the
coal in the seam. Armadillo-like steel plates support the
earth while machine operators shear away the coal. The
machine excavates all the coal and moves forward
through the seam, allowing the earth to drop into the void
left behind. Removing six feet of coal leaves the surface
unsupported. The ground sinks, leaving in its wake broken homes and poisoned wells, sucking water out of
springs and farm ponds, drying up streams. Industry calls
this "planned subsidence." Affected communities know it
as total destruction.
The Thomas B. Kent, Jr. Farm is a 102-acre Pennsylvania farm with an 1850 brick and stone farmhouselisted on the National Register of Historic Places. The property was undercut by longwall mining in the1990s. 540,000 tons of coal was removed from under the farm's property, generating millions of dollarsof revenue for the coal company, but leaving the home, creek and streams destroyed.
The coal company shored up the house before the longwall operation passed underneath. However,
subsidence left the foundation cracked and destroyed the spring-fed pond, leaving no source of potablewater for drinking or farming.
http://www.waterkeeper.org Waterkeeper Magazine Winter 2006
The mining companies excuse the
devastation by arguing that it's best to
get the subsidence over quickly, rather
than wait for the mines to cave slowly
over the next 50 years or so. People living with the aftermath will tell you the
shifting, cracking and settling permanently impacts homes, waterways and
the lives of those who live over these
operations. Although precautions are
taken to protect homes, i.e. by boarding
up walls, taping windows, digging wide
moats around the foundations to lessen
the impact of the shifting and heaving
earth as it settles into its new repose,
foundations crack and windows break.
Homeowners have no control as coal
companies control the rights to coal
under their property.
As the underground riches are stripped
away, property values plummet and residents are left to pick up the pieces.
Subsidence turns narrow, quick-running streamsinto sediment-clogged pools, suffocating aquaticlife and changing groundwater-fed streams intostormwater ditches.
Under hundreds of square miles of
Pennsylvania's Greene and Washington
Counties, longwall mining leaves the Earth's
surface unsupported. Longwall mining dam-
ages entire watersheds, depriving the land
and its occupants of springs, streams, ponds
and wells, creating an environmental disaster
of local and national importance.
This 15-minute documentary portrays the
experience of two families as they struggle to
cope with extensive longwall subsidence
damage to their historic homesteads.
Written and directed by Emmy Award
winning journalist Terri Taylor. Produced by
the Raymond Proffitt Foundation. Funding
provided by The Heinz Endowments.
Info & screening copies: Ten Mile Protection
Network, firstname.lastname@example.com, 724-267-4633
A revealing documentary exposing the impacts and
legacy of longwall mining.
Waterkeeper Magazine Winter 2006 http://www.waterkeeper.org
Mountaintop Removal Mining
A massive dragline, dwarfed by the hugescale of the operation, at work on amountaintop removal operation nearKayford Mountain, WV.
Where strip mining involves clearing
away the layer of earth above a seam to
access coal deposits, mountaintop removal is
strip mining on steroids. It means complete
deconstruction of once ecologically diverse
and verdant mountains, the suffocation of biologically rich headwater streams and the displacement of generations-old communities.
In central Appalachia, hills are steep and
valleys narrow. Coal seams are layered
throughout these mountains much like the
frosting in a multi-tiered layer cake, proving
often difficult to deep mine. Until the mid1980's miners used traditional deep mining to
remove the thicker seams of coal that honeycombed the steep mountains and traditional
surface mining to expose and remove the
outer edges of the thinner seams close to the
surface around the sides of the mountains.
Technological advances have hit
Appalachia like a sledgehammer. Today, huge
Over Public Interest
The 2005 Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement on mountaintop removal mining –
a legally required government study begun in 1998 in response to litigation by local citizens –
is a prime example of politics over public interest. The purpose of the study was to explore
ways to limit the impact of mountaintop removal mining. But while the government
included extensive scientific research documenting damage of this practice to communities
and the environment, and in the face of 80,000 public comments against this practice, the
Bush administration used the study to endorse mountaintop removal, and recommend
streamlining the permitting process.
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mining machines tear away at mountaintops, first blasting apart the
uppermost layers of rock, pushing it into valley streams below to
expose a seam of coal and then bulldozing the coal into huge trucks to
be transported to preparation plants.
The process is repeated over and over again until at last the entire
mountain (often 600 – 1,000 feet) has been dismantled, all the coal
removed (often 6 to 15 different seams), and the leftover millions of
tons of rock and debris that now fill the stream valleys are "sculpted"
into short flat or sloped hills.
Over 800 square miles of the most productive and diverse temperate hardwood forests no longer exist. Twelve hundred miles of streams
have been buried or otherwise impacted by these operations.
Groundwater – perched aquifers that once fed mountain springs and
replenished streams in dry times – have been eliminated, ancient
mountaintops replaced with rubble and rock that has been put
through the giant mix-master of modern day mining, spit out and
bulldozed into sterile, manmade moonscapes.
Mountaintop removal mining has already turned hundreds of
thousands of acres of Appalachia's mountains into a barren wasteland. Lives are destroyed as families are uprooted and forced to move,
communities disappear and a chain
of generations living from the land is
broken. No one can question that
moving mountains has a certain godlike quality about it. But these
arguably amazing engineering feats
have consequences of unbelievable
Valley fills are created when waste rock is dumped from the mining area intonearby stream valley – sometimes over two miles long. This is a picture of asmall valley fill in its early stages. The pond at the toe of the fill is meant toprevent sediment from entering the rest of the stream. Fills underconstruction often contribute to downstream flooding when rains rush offthe denuded mining area above overwhelming the ponds and causing themto break or overflow.
The Definition of Fill
In 2001, King Coal found itself faced with a federal district court
ruling that would have shut down mountaintop mining operations
all across West Virginia as a violation of the Clean Water Act. King
Coal's response was to immediately cash in some of its political
markers and get its cronies in the Bush Administration to change
how EPA and Army Corps of Engineers define a single word in
the Act, the word "fill." Changing the definition of fill effectively
insulated the industry from any further Clean Water Act attacks and
negated the court's decision, allowing the coal industry to continue
burying Appalachian streams and valleys with mine waste and
rubble without interruption.
Now, Washington's eagerness to kowtow to the coal industry is
having far-reaching implications in other areas of the country where
industry wants to use our waterways as unpermitted waste disposal
sites. In Alaska, gold mining companies are taking advantage of this
bureaucratic, regulatory change to dump waste from gold
mines into nearby lakes. Only time will tell how many other
industries will jump on the regulatory bandwagon and fill our
nation's waterways with their toxic mess.
Poisoned water discharged belowa coal sludge impoundment.
Stream Buffer Zone Rule
Under the 1977 Surface Mining Control and
Reclamation Act, the Buffer Zone Rule prohibits
mining within 100 feet of intermittent or
perennial streams. Insisting the rule was never
meant to prevent the dumping of millions of
tons of waste rock from mining operations into
headwater streams, the Federal Office of Surface
Mining has proposed a regulatory change to
"clarify" the rule. A 1998 federal district court
ruling upheld the clear meaning of the rule, but
was returned to the state courts on
jurisdictional ground by the Fourth Circuit Court
of Appeals. The Office of Surface Mining is
currently conducting an environmental review
of the proposed change. Permitting continues
for the burying of hundreds more miles of
ecologically rich streams.
Waterkeeper Magazine Winter 2006 http://www.waterkeeper.org
Coldwater Creek
One picture says it all…
Marsh Fork Elementary School in Raleigh County, WV, (green patch and white building visible
in the foreground, left) sits across Little Coal River from Massey Energy's Goals Coal
Processing plant (blue building) and their Shumate Coal Sludge Impoundment – a slurry
dam permitted for 2.8 billion gallons of coal sludge (center). The 385-feet-high earthen dam
sits about 400 yards from the school. A coal silo sits within 150 feet of the school. The towns
of Pettry Bottom and Naoma, WV, are also visible in the photo. A 1,849-acre strip mine is also
Sludge Spill
On October 11, 2000, 300 million gallons of
visible above the impoundment – blasting from this new mine imperils the dam and
communities below.
coal sludge broke through a coal slurry
impoundment at Kentucky's largest
mountaintop removal site. (The Exxon
Massey Energy
Massey and other coal companies spend
millions each election cycle to shape the
political debate in West Virginia. Blankenship
personally spent $3.5 million during the state
Supreme Court campaign, propelling political
novice Brent Benjamin onto the bench. This
month, Massey agreed to pay $2.5 million to
settle – without admitting any wrongdoing –
a shareholder lawsuit alleging that under
Blankenship's leadership Massey had become,
"a recidivist environmental violator as a
result of the knowing and willful conduct of
its Board of Directors."
Author Cindy Rank, West Virginia HeadwatersWaterkeeper, and Don Blankenship, head ofMassey Energy Company (the region's largest coalproducer) debate in 2004.
Valdez spill was "only" 11 million gallons.)
The black goo poured into Coldwater and
Wolf Creeks and traveled 100 miles
reaching the Ohio River, closing down
community water supplies and devastating
aquatic life. The impoundment contained
two billion gallons of sludge and sits atop
abandoned underground mines. Regulatory
agencies had rated the "pond" a moderate
risk for failure. This photo was taken 15 days
after the Oct. 11, 2000 spill, downstream
from the areas most affected by the spill.
Illegal roadblocks, staffed probably by coal
company employees, kept the public from
getting close to the worst areas. There are
hundreds of similar sludge "ponds" across
Appalachia, at mountaintop removal and
other coal mining sites.
http://www.waterkeeper.org Waterkeeper Magazine Winter 2006
Moving, Washing,
Preparing and Moving
Coal preparation plant operations.
Once coal is mined, it must be transported to preparation plants, washed and then moved
again to power plants. At several points along the way coal is stockpiled in huge
amounts. Runoff from coal piles contaminates groundwater – the primary drinking water
source throughout rural America. Coal particulates fill the air, impacting surrounding communities and waterways. These particulates, called coal "fines," can be
found contaminating the air, waterways and communities everywhere that coal is transported and stored.
At the prep-plant, usually near the mine, coal is mixed with water
and chemicals, "sluiced and juiced," to remove impurities that complicate the burning process. The refuse from the coal washing is a toxic,
liquid slurry of chemicals and coal waste that is then pumped to a slurry impoundment – a former valley that is now filled with billions (yes
"b") of gallons of toxic sludge behind a manmade dam. These
impoundments are often located above communities. Many are at
high risk of failing because they can be undermined by underlying
abandoned, or even active, underground mines.
While coal companies are required by law to treat water that flows
out of the impoundment into streams and rivers, these slurry
impoundments can overflow in heavy rains or when dams fail.
These slurry impoundments remain a permanent threat to downstream communities.
Once washed, the coal is loaded back onto trucks, trains and barges for
transport to the power plant, again, spreading toxic coal fines to communities and waterways far beyond the coalfields.
Coal is loaded into a truck from a Brooks Run Mining Co. mine Friday, Nov. 18,2005 near Erbacon, WV.
Coal trucks, typically weighing over 12,000 pounds, create a hazard on theroads of coal country, costing state taxpayers money to repair the highwaysand bridges. For those who share the narrow, winding country roads withthese behemoths, sometimes the price is much higher.
Waterkeeper Magazine Winter 2006 http://www.waterkeeper.org
Coal Fly Ash Basin Blows Out:
Miller Steam Plant on Locust Fork of the
Black Warrior River, AL, one of 1,100 coal-
fired power plants in the U.S.
After coal has been mined,
transported, washed and
delivered to utility units, it is
burned to create electricity.
Unfortunately, because it's cheaper and easier to build power
plants near the source of the coal,
the very same populations that
pay the highest price of mining
are also disproportionately
impacted by the burning of coal.
Nevertheless, the effects of
burning coal reach far beyond the
coalfields. Towering power plant
smokestacks churn out massive
amounts of mercury, greenhouse
gases and more smog-causing
nitrogen oxide emissions than all
of the nation's cars, vans, and
SUVs combined. By some estimates, these pollutants cause
almost 30,000 deaths each year,
extending the risks of coal min-
1000 Million Gallons Spill
Into Delaware River
On August 23, 2005, a leak began
in Pennsylvania Power and Light's
(PPL) coal fly ash storage basin at
their Martins Creek power plant.
By the next day, the leak turned
into a flood over the roads and
fields adjacent to the basin, then
an eruption of coal fly ash slurry
ing far beyond the coalfields. Add to those impacts acid rain, mercury contamination and climate change from carbon dioxide emissions.
New "clean coal" technologies that remove some of the toxics
now being spewed into the air may sound noble, but even these fail
to address the significant problems associated with mining and the
disposing of coal waste and ash. Much of the heavy metal laden ash
and waste is stored in landfills or in slurry impoundments that can
leak or fail.
Coalbed methane well pads and the dirt roads
that connect them dominate ridgetops in the
Village Creek basin, AL.
Coalbed Methane
Coalbed methane extraction is closely associated with coal
mining, and also very destructive. Coalbed methane is a gas that
is given off by coal seams deep in the ground. The seam is
fractured, or fracked," and pumped full of highly-pressurized
water, allowing gas from throughout the seam to flow to the
that lasted for several days. In the
end, at least 100 million gallons (company estimate) of coal fly ash
effluent gushed into the Oughoughton Creek and the Delaware River.
Easton, about 10 miles downstream, had to shut down its water
intakes for several days; the river was dark gray with a slick of light
gray for more than a week. Known components of the fly ash
include arsenic, mercury, lead, silica, crystalline silica, barium,
chromium and other heavy metals. The toxin-laden slurry paved the
river bottom, smothering aquatic life for several miles downstream;
as far as 40 miles south the gray sludge was visible in between rocks
in the river.
The blow out, the slow and mishap-riddled cleanup, and poor
decision making by the company and state officials has resulted in
prolonging the pollution event, causing pollution from the coal fly
ash to spread, and making a very bad situation much worse.
Delaware Riverkeeper Network will continue to advocate for the
surface, where it is captured and can be piped into homes for
permanent shut down of the coal fired units and the removal of the
heat, cooking and industrial uses. Some coal companies claim
open impoundments, which represent outdated technology and are
degasification in underground mines increases mine safety.
not environmentally protective.
However, according to the United Mining Workers of America,
there are more explosions in degasified mines than mines that
do not use this process.
http://www.waterkeeper.org Waterkeeper Magazine Winter 2006
Acid Mine Drainage:
where you scratch the earth, it bleeds
Even after the coal is removed
from the earth, completed
mining operations often remain
an ecological threat. Toxic mine
drainage from abandoned deep
and surface mines plagues
groundwater and streams
throughout Appalachia.
A poisonous brew is created
when pyrite-containing rock is dug
or bulldozed out of its eons-old rest
deep within the earth and exposed
to the air and rain. A chemical reaction with water forms a rust-like
substance that washes into
streams and groundwater. The
water has a low pH (meaning it's
sour like vinegar or lemon juice)
and contains metals such as iron,
manganese and aluminum.
In deep mining, toxic mine
drainage is formed when the coal
itself is full of pyrite. As mined
out voids fill with toxic water
laced with metals, pressure builds
and eventually pushes the toxic
brew out of hillsides in seeps, and
through fissures in the earth, into
our groundwater and waterways.
In strip mining, toxic mine
drainage results from pyritic rock
Noxious mine
discharge alongRt. 837 runninginto the
MonongahelaRiver near New
Eagle, PA.
around and above coal seams being exposed to water. When that rock
is blasted apart and bulldozed back into place as "backfill," drainage
through the disturbed material releases toxic chemicals and metals.
Acidic and metal-laden water can also pool up into toxic underground lakes in interconnected deep mine workings. While the mines
are active, the mining company is required to pump and treat the discharge. In theory, the oxygen supply is cut off in abandoned mines,
stopping the production of acid. In practice however, mines continue
to produce acid drainage long after they are abandoned. The
"Pittsburgh Pool" alone encompasses over one million acres of metal-
laden groundwater that stretches from the Monongahela River to the
Ohio River in Northern West Virginia. Toxic water from this underground lake seeps out into streams and wells. The absence of any legally "responsible parties" have the academics, government and industry
personnel madly searching for the money and technical know-how to
deal with the problem.
Acid mine drainage is a gift that keeps on giving, killing fish and
other aquatic life, poisoning the soil and creating expensive treatment
problems downstream. Thousands of miles of streams are rendered
unusable. Untold numbers of individual well users, public water supplies and wildlife are harmed. Long-term treatment costs are necessary but astronomical.
The Abandoned Mine Lands
Challenge of 2006
June 30, 2006 will be an important date for our nation's coalfield
communities. That is when the Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) Program
must be re-authorized, and hopefully strengthened, by Congress. AML
was created to collect fees from coal companies to reclaim lands, rivers
and streams damaged by mines abandoned by the coal industry.
The AML program was supposed to have completed the cleanup
job and come to an end in 2004, but decades of Congressional raids
on the fund to cover other spending programs have left it
inadequately funded. The federal Office of Surface Mining (OSM)
reported that 3.6 million people lived within a mile of a Priority 1 or
2 site – those that pose the greatest health and safety threats.
But it isn't just coalfield communities suffering from this
pollution – the Susquehanna River and the Chesapeake Bay are
being badly damaged by polluted waste coming from abandoned
mines in Pennsylvania, and there is no hope for cleaning up the
Chesapeake Bay until abandoned mine contamination in
Pennsylvania is stopped.
—Louise C. Dunlap
Waterkeeper Magazine Winter 2006 http://www.waterkeeper.org
Where Coal Reigns King
"King Coal" refers to the coal companies, their associations
and the politicians who throw open the public trust, clearing the way for their worst mining practices. One might think that
our government would work diligently to minimize impacts and
safeguard our communities. Unfortunately, when it comes to protecting the public from the harmful effects of the mining and
burning of coal, Congress and this Administration have chosen to
turn a blind eye.
Mine Reclamation Projects
In 1977, Congress set up the Abandoned Mine Land Fund to raise the
funds needed to clean up mines that were abandoned prior to the
1977 passage of the Surface Mine Act. Active mining companies are
required to pay into the fund at the rate of 35 cents per ton of surface-mined coal and 15 cents per ton of underground-mined coal.
Congress ordered the money to be used to correct problems created
by mining done prior to 1977, especially to fix dangerous or emergency situations, replace water supplies and repair and reclaim
abandoned mine sites. Congress estimated in 1977 that repairs
could be accomplished in 15 years.
Now, nearly 30 years later, many hundreds of sites remain unreclaimed. Money in the fund has been used for highly questionable
projects, and reauthorization of the fund to require continued payment from companies actively mining and making profits is a politically charged battle.
In West Virginia alone, more than $375 million has been spent out
of the fund over the last 20 years to re-grade scarred land, stabilize
dangerous slides, fix hazardous mine waste and otherwise clean up
abandoned mine sites. But, measured by estimated cleanup costs, the
federal government estimates that less than one-quarter of the
state's inventoried abandoned mine problems have been reclaimed.
Since the program began, coal operators have paid more than $7
billion into the fund. But as the West Virginia Charleston Gazette
outlined in a series of articles last year, more than $1.3 billion of
money from the fund has been diverted to low-priority cleanups or
other non-essential projects.
Reclamation At Its Finest
This shot from the Hurricane Creek,
AL, watershed shows two separatereclamation attempts with a slurrypit in the middle. The upper side ofthe picture was strip mined andreclaimed by Tuscaloosa Resourceswithin the past 5 years. They werecareful to leave a narrow band of
trees along highway 216 to block theview of the site from the road.
The lower side of the photo is theDrummond Coal mine and
reclamation site from the 1970's.
Drummond received an award for
reclamation from the federal
government for their excellent workat this site. So what's the result 30
years after the reclamation effort? Afew scrubby pine trees andcontinued poison runoff.
The pit in the middle was bondedfor reclamation by Drummond thensold to Jim Walters Resources who
continues to use the pit today. UnderDrummond's 1970's permit, theywere supposed to close and reclaim
the pit. This is another case of a so-
called minor permit revisionallowing coal companies to ignoreregulatory requirements and put offcleaning up their mess.
http://www.waterkeeper.org Waterkeeper Magazine Winter 2006
The Warrior Coal Basin
Birmingport is a barge loading facility onthe banks of the Locust Fork of the Black
Warrior River. This port is Birmingham'sgateway to Mobile Bay, providing for thetransport of coal, asphalt, chemicals,
wood chips, and steel. Flight provided bySouthWings http://www.southwings.org
David Whiteside, Interim Executive Director
Black Warrior Riverkeeper
Coal is plentiful in the Black Warrior River watershed, which, combined with Alabama's ranking as dead last in the United States in
environmental protection, adds up to tremendous water pollution.
Coal was first discovered here in the 19th century. "Stonecoal" was
mined by driving crowbars into river ledges while divers recovered
falling minerals from the water. Expert navigators guided riverboats
through the narrow passages of the free-flowing Black Warrior to haul
the coal to market. The tales of these river captains became local legends.
Today the Black Warrior, straightened and dammed by the Corps of
Engineers for easy navigation, is a silent giant in Alabama's economy,
serving as a major shipping route for coal, cotton, steel, wood chips
and other products, and connecting
Birmingham with Mobile Bay and The Drummond Company's
the Gulf of Mexico. Shoal Creek Mine currently
In the 1980s, Alabama coal had a crosses underneath the main
market value of $22 a ton. Today, stem of the river west of
the market value is well over $100 a Birmingham. Miners there
ton. As a result, Alabama is experi-pump 40 million gallons of
encing a resurgence in coal mining. now toxic water out of the
New mines are being permitted mine each day, sending water
throughout the Black Warrior loaded with heavy metals and
watershed on almost a monthly acid cascading down a bluff
basis. But King Coal has already back into the river.
picked clean the richest and most
accessible coal seams. Now, to remain profitable, these operations
must dig deeper, and flaunt environmental laws and worker safety, to
harvest coal that was previously unprofitable to mine. Black Warrior
Riverkeeper is reviewing dozens of mining permits, monitoring mines
by air and pursing Clean Water Act violators.
Tugboat "Alabama" motors its way down the Black Warrior River with six fully loaded barges of coal.
Waterkeeper Magazine Winter 2006 http://www.waterkeeper.org
The true cost of coal is measured
in human lives
John Wathen
Hurricane Creekkeeper
On September 23, 2001, a
blast ripped through Jim
The JWR #5
mine in
County, AL.
Eighteen men have been
killed in this mine
between 2000 and 2004: 13
in one blast in 2001. The
large building in the
center is the vertical shaft
into the mine where the
coal comes out and men go
in. This mine is the deepest
vertical mineshaft in the
U.S. The green roofed
buildings to the left of the
massive coal pile is the
church and graveyard
where the JWR 13 widows
and families waited while
the search went on for
their men after JWR
prevented them from
entering the property.
materials and coal dust" in the
coal dust.
Walter Resources (JWR) Blue
Creek mine #5 killing 13 of
Brookwood's fathers, brothers,
and sons. Federal regulators
had conducted several inspections and written 31 violations,
including 12 for "combustible
The church grounds have to becleaned constantly to remove
months leading up to the blast.
JWR had been ordered to correct
these problems prior to the
time of the blast. Each of these
violations was a serious threat
to safety. But JWR is used to
ignoring safety violations, and minor slaps on the wrist from regulators.
This fall, five years after the blast, the courts lowered the fine that Jim Walter Resources
must pay to $3,000 from $435,000. That comes to $298.70 per man. Judge Barbour and the
federal Mine Safety and Health Administration sent a clear message to Jim Walter Resources
that it is okay to kill our neighbors if the profit is right.
Coal is not cheap in Alabama. And it costs a lot more than dollars and cents. It costs lives,
habitat and quality of life for everyone, except maybe those who thrive on our loss.
To say that 13 miners are not worth more than pocket change for King Coal is an atrocity.
http://www.waterkeeper.org Waterkeeper Magazine Winter 2006
Environmental Regulation
As they apply to coal, the multitude of environmental laws passed in the 1970's were
meant to strike a reasonable balance between producing coal and protecting human
health and the environment. These laws were meant to create a safety net of minimum standards below which industry could not go. With these standards fully enforced, the total cost
to mining and energy industries for maintaining these standards would be reflected in the
market price of energy. The desire for and pursuit of a coal-based energy would then be
determined by the true cost of coal and we, as consumers, would pay the cost of acceptable,
even sustainable, mining and burning practices.
With the passage of the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Surface Mining Control and
Reclamation Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, and other laws in the 1970's,
things got better, at least for a while. The blatant abuses of rip-and-run mining eased and the
public outcry decreased. Congress and the country were somewhat comforted.
However, as people were lulled into complacency, industry was busy refining its image.
High power public relations efforts were changing the startling image of Appalachian coalfields from devastated lands, downtrodden miners and impoverished communities to green
rolling reclaimed hills. While the façade got prettier and the words were fine-tuned, industry
Last fall, Waterkeeper magazine focused on the impacts of mercury
emissions from the nation's 1,100 coal-fired power plants, including
EPA's estimate that 630,000 children are born each year in the U.S.
with unsafe levels of mercury in their blood from their mother's
consumption of mercury contaminated fish.
One of the Bush Administration's favorite arguments against
effectively controlling power plant mercury emissions is that much
of the mercury in our waterways comes from sources outside the
U.S. (nearly 1,500 tons of mercury are released globally each year.)
EPA claims that U.S. emissions account for only three percent of the
manmade sources worldwide, and that Asia emits 860 tons, while
North America accounts for only 105 tons per year.
But a closer examination of the issue speaks volumes about how
disingenuous this Administration truly is when it comes to stopping
mercury pollution. Last February, mercury was on the table for
discussion when the United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP) met for its 23rd Governing Council in Nairobi, Kenya. During
committee meetings, the European Union called for a legally
binding agreement that would force global reductions in mercury
emissions. Asian countries were largely on board. But U.S.
representatives opposed any mandatory reduction standards,
instead calling for a voluntary partnership program – in other
words, an unenforceable agreement that would not burden their
industry friends back home. So while the EPA is quick to deflect
blame to other parts of the world, the U.S. government will not
embrace international regulation of mercury emissions.
As a result of U.S. opposition, internationally binding reductions
on mercury emissions failed. The U.S. response? If you don't want to
fix it, throw money at it and hope it will go away. Instead of
endorsing any meaningful mercury reduction agreement, Bush
officials pledged $1 million to the UNEP mercury program. So much
for international leadership.
devised new mining practices and employed new technologies far
more destructive than anyone dreamed possible when the legislation
of the 1970's were enacted.
At the same time the roots of coal's political influence grew longer
and stronger. Coal companies leaped into political campaign financing, and otherwise influenced the tenor, tone and texture of regulations. With control of the political process King Coal orchestrated
decreases in funding for enforcement agencies and shifted primacy
and power away from the federal government to the coalfield states,
where industry has even more direct control and influence.
With its now deep seated political influence, new "improved" technologies and the illusion of "cheap" energy, King Coal went to work on
the environmental laws, twisting regulations to their wishes and discouraging enforcement. In one of the more egregious policy-making
decisions coming out of the EPA in recent years, the Agency changed
the definition of "fill" under the Clean Water Act to allow mining companies to dump tons of mining debris into valley streams without
being in violation of the Act. The federal Office of Surface Mining has
proposed a change to the Buffer Zone Rule that would legalize the filling of hundreds more miles of valuable headwater streams. And just
last year, EPA enacted a rule that allows coal-fired plants to continue to
spew tons of mercury into our air and waterways for decades to come.
Who's running West Virginia?
February 24, 2005 West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin III
(2nd from left) discusses details of his legislative agenda
during a briefing with members of the state Legislature in
the House Chamber, State Capitol, (that's Bill Raney from
the WV Coal Association on the far right.)
Waterkeeper Magazine Winter 2006 http://www.waterkeeper.org
Two legislative bodies in Congress, the
Senate Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources and the House
Committee on Resources, have
jurisdiction over mining, energy policy,
public lands and mineral leasing. But
who are these Senators and Congress
members really working for?
The League of Conservation Voters
publishes a National Environmental
Scorecard, an impartial evaluation of
each Congressional members'
commitment to environmental issues
such as public health and safety,
natural resource conservation and
spending on environmental
programs. Experienced
conservationists from nineteen
environmental organizations use key
legislation to grade Congress
members. Depending on their voting
record on these issues, Senators and
Representatives receive a grade from
0, the worst, to 100, the best.
Waterkeeper has identified the
Resource Committee members who
have received a zero on the Scorecardin 2003 or 2004. There are others
with abysmally low scores – but
these are the true zeros. These are
King Coal's champions in Congress,
letting the people of the coalfields
and our nation down.
Marilyn Musgrave,
These are Waterkeeper's BIG FAT ZEROSDon Young, Alaska
JD Hayworth, Arizona Richard Pombo, California
George Radanovich,
Elton Gallegly, California Tom Tancredo, Colorado
Barbara Cubin, Wyoming
Jim Gibbons, Nevada Steve Pearce, New Mexico
Henry E. Brown, South
Lisa Murkowski, Alaska Conrad Burns, Montana George Allen, Virginia Craig Thomas, Wyoming
Pete Domenici, New Mexico
Lamar Alexander, Tennessee
Jim Bunning, Kentucky
Jim Talent, Missouri
Christopher Cannon, Utah John J. Duncan, Tennessee
http://www.waterkeeper.org Waterkeeper Magazine Winter 2006
Image Refinery
Though the years the coal industry has worked hard to "clean up" it's image. The greening of
coal continues to this day with roadside billboards throughout coal country, General
Electric's "eco-imagination" campaign of buff coal miners and dancing rainforest creatures
and Massey Coal Company's "total environment" campaign that asserts that it is King Coal,
not loudmouthed environmentalists, who are looking out for the people of Appalachia.
John Amos coal-fired powerplant in Nitro, WV.
Waterkeeper Magazine Winter 2006 http://www.waterkeeper.org
Every basket is power and
civilization. For coal is a
portable climate…and coal
carries coal, by rail and by
boat, to make Canada as
warm as Calcutta.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Wa
Emerson, considered by many people to be the founding father of
the conservation movement with his 1836 treatise on nature,
wrote these words in praise of coal almost 150 years ago. With the
dramatic impact that the burning of coal and other fossil fuels is
having on our planet's climate, how ironically prophetic his statements have proven to be.
The gathering and burning of coal as an energy source has been
documented as far back as 400 A.D. in Roman-controlled Britain.
Now, many centuries later, when the combustion engine has displaced horse-drawn chariots and missiles have supplanted swords,
coal still remains a primary source of energy. At what cost do we
desperately hold onto this antiquated supply of power? In order to
facilitate the continuing use of coal, the Bush Administration has
rewritten environmental laws to allow mining companies to dump
their wastes into valley streams and other waterways and implemented regulations that allow utility companies to avoid any meaningful reduction of mercury emissions from power plants. Under the
guise of free trade, "cheap" Appalachian coal is shipped across the
border to use in Ontario power plants whose very emissions blow
back across this same border to poison our Northeastern states.
We are long past asking ourselves the pivotal question: is the true
cost of coal truly worth it's cost?
The answer is painfully obvious.
It is time to replace coal with better, cleaner, more efficient
sources of energy. Coal is as obsolete as the antediluvian life forms
that make up its substance – it's time to move on. Instead of making
excuses for the continued use of coal, this country's leadership must
take affirmative steps to phase out our dependency on this destructive energy source.
Give all stakeholders a place at the table when formulating energy policies. Our current energy policy came out of Vice-President Dick
Cheney's energy task force — made up entirely of industry representatives who donated millions of dollars to his election campaign.
When profit-driven energy interests dictate the energy policies of this
nation we've gone way beyond letting the fox guard the henhouse.
Our government needs to promote energy conservation instead
of subsidizing increased expenditures to further coal use. In 1998
the Environmental Protection Agency noted in a report to Congress
that coal-fired power plants account for 48 tons per year of mercury
being emitted into our air and waterways. Our government's
response? To permit the building of even more coal-fired power
plants and gut Clean Air Act requirements that would mandate
strict control of mercury emissions from these very facilities. It is
time to take conservation seriously.
The fact is, coal could not be mined in the destructive manner
that it is and burned with wanton disregard for human and environmental health if we simply enforce the laws of the United
States as intended. Instead, with the help of a more than willing
Bush Administration, the mining industry has turned to undermining the very basic principles of our bedrock environmental statutes
like the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act. Compliance with
these laws and regard for our environment and public health would
help insure that the cost of coal is truly reflective of the devastation
it's use entails.
Aggressively pursue alternate, renewable and clean sources of
energy. The coal industry is determined to keep the country reliant
on coal until Appalachia has been leveled, every last coal seam has
been mined and every last coal chunk has been burned. Why? So
they can squeeze every last drop of profits from an infrastructure
that has been paid for by the American people many times over. As
long as these same interests script the nation's energy policies, there
will never be any real push for alternate sources of energy.
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