Why Not Ohio? Time To Say No to Coal Slurry

[Rick Rowlands]

"Reasonable" implies "reason", a word not in the Greens' dictionary.

[Why?Town]

From what I gather, they want to re-route the stream so that the slurry won't pollute the water. Seems reasonable .

[ytowner]

You can dream of a green party governor, but it will never ever happen and you know it Spisak. Least Strickland has enough brains to back coal.

[irishbobcat]

Why Not Ohio? Time To Say No to Coal Slurry

Several years ago, Ohio's biggest coal mining company asked for permission to drain a pristine stream and fill it instead with coal slurry, a mixture of water, chemicals, and coal mining waste. In 2008, Ohio EPA rightly told Murray Energy to go back to the drawing board1.

So what's Murray Energy's "new" plan for 2010? Drain a pristine stream and fill it with dirty coal slurry -- again. And this time, the company threatens to start firing people if it doesn't get its way.

We can't allow corporations to bully our elected officials who are trying to do the right thing. The Ohio EPA stood strong in 2008. Now, Ohio EPA must stand strong again.


The choice between decent jobs and clean water is false; in order to regain its economic edge, Ohio must move beyond coal to clean energy in the coming years and decades. Turning a pure freshwater stream into a huge toxic coal slurry impoundment is a giant step in the wrong direction.

We need a Green Party Governor for Ohio in 2010 who is for Renewable Clean Energy, not Dirty Coal Energy that Governor Strickland backs!