OpenSourceCoal.org: Questioning the Viability of a Coal-Based Future
Appalachian Voices - Non-Profit - www.AppalachianVoices.org
OpenSourceCoal.org is an online user-friendly compendium which seeks to tame bewildering and wildly scattered government coal data. How many tons of coal were surface-mined by Massey Energy in 1998? What are the annual CO2 emissions from power plants in NC? The data available on OpenSourceCoal.org offers a comprehensive view of the rising costs and declining production of coal.
We have the tool plus relationships with the public, media, and elected officials. Free Range can provide the means of keeping the data current and disseminating this important information, helping to create a clean energy future for Appalachia.
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46 comments
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muffinman.
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cant vote ? at least i know the site now -
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Lauren
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How many more rivers and groundwater used as drinking water by citizens across the country need to be polluted by waste from coal combustion waste. We need to stop our reliance on coal NOW! Stop ripping open our mountains, polluting our waters and our bodies.
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Lance Lewis
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Let coal reserves be reserved for the hard times we may face. We've had great technology advances since 1880. Great proposal!
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Robin Austin
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Of Course this is a wonderful Idea.
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James Mullins
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The only benefit of coal? It's cheap and brings huge profits. That’s it. Otherwise it pollutes the air, its extraction causes long term health defects within the coal miners who extract it as well as the people who live around the mines. Oh and let’s not forget the long term environmental devastation mining coal causes. It makes one question the motivations of people who say "coal is our future...." or “we need coal."
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C Mendonca
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There are so many other cleaner, safer ways to power our lives everyday.
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Annette Nielsen
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Time for algenol, ethanol, wind, wave, water, solar power. Technology is there and it would employ a lot of folks!!
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Annette Nielsen
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Time for algenol, ethanol, wind, wave, water, solar power. Technology is there and it would employ a lot of folks!!
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centralspiritualsun
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question question question the heck out of a carbon-based energy future!!! All the fuch to be clean, green, equitable, charitable, just and peaceful! Bring it on!!!
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Misti Wright Furr commented
I heart mountains.
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Kathy Caudle
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How can we continue to destroy this beautiful creation?
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Kathy Caudle
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How can we continue to destroy this beautiful creation?
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Jaimee Smith
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Thanks Appalachian Voices!
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Donna Lisenby
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Go App Voices and Open Source Coal.
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renee
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appalachian voices- the voice of the people who have to live with this industrial polluting monster- mountain top removal mining in there backyards. save the mountains, save the streams, keep people healthy- STOP MOUNTAIN TOP REMOVAL MINING!!!
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Adrian Tait
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Let's find ways to get miners into better jobs!
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Mary Akerstrom commented
Appalachian Voices is the Hope for a region. The destruction of these mountains is simply wrong on so many levels!
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Dana Alder
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A,V. works hard to stop those who are taking the tops off our beautiful mountains and dumping the slag into our beautiful hollers and streams..
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bluemountainmama
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kudos to appalachian voices and their tireless work to bring justice to appalachia and to shed light on the lies of the coal industry.
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Devon Tuttle
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Keep up the good fight App. Voices!