Meigs County should be most grateful they are unemployed

Or at least, that's what the EnviroNazis think you should think.

Thankful for news that plans to build coal plant have been scrapped

AMP not building coal plant in Meigs county

Cleveland.com story

If you don't like high electric rates, you need to put the blame where it belongs. Not with AMP or AEP, but with the EnviroNazis, from obama on down.

Same goes if you or a family member are unemployed.

Next stop for the EnviroNazis? Protest natural gas.

The Nazis don't care who does not have jobs....all they care about is having a cause and "doing something". They do not care about the people.

If they really cared about the "environment", they'd disconnect the electricity from their homes and live like the cavemen they want everyone else to become.

Makes one wonder how long it will take for a new coal powered plant to be built across the river in West Virginia to take up the slack.

Where's Ted Strickland and Debbie Phillips. They paid lip service to the proposed AMP plant, but I can't find where they really pushed AMP to build it.

Just who are the real thugs?

Here's the Ohio Citizen Action EnviroNazi group whining about people fighting to keep their jobs.

You have a group of EnviroNazis invading West Virginia with the intent of shutting down coal mines and with it the jobs that West Virginian's depend on.

It's about time someone started standing up to these EnviroNazis.

This threatening act is a part of a campaign of intimidation where mountaintop removal supporters repeatedly shout obscenities and threaten violence. The June 23rd Protest at Marsh Fork Elementary saw hundreds of mountaintop removal supporters shout obscenities at families and saw one peaceful protester slapped in the face by a woman in miner’s stripes. The week leading up to the Mountain Keepers Festival saw repeated threats of violence to the festival.

Keep in mind that their web post was written to put the best light on the EnviroNazis and the worst light on the folks that actually live there and want to keep their jobs.

So, do you really think they would be outraged if an EnvroNazi had slapped a coal miner? Of course emotions are high when you have an outside group trying to make you unemployed.

EnviroNazi propoganda explained

The Pomeroy Daily Sentinel story

The EnviroNazis are definitely persistent.

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. "
Joseph Goebbels.

Strange how our EnviroNazis and the German National Socialists think a lot alike.

"An amendment to the state worker’s compensation budget which could significantly reduce construction costs for the proposed American Municipal Power Generating Station is being call “another unfair Ohio perk for coal” by the Sierra Club."

Yep, that's the last thing we want to do is make it easier for employers to do business in Ohio!

"The amendment, supported by Ohio Sen. Jimmy Stewart (R-Albany), is said to save AMP-Ohio $20-25 million on construction costs by allowing the company to apply for self-insured status with the Ohio Bureau of Worker’s Compensation."

Good job Sen. Stewart. It's not rocket science, if we can help a company reduce costs associated with doing business in Ohio, the greater chance they'll employ Ohioans.

"said Nachy Kanfer, with Sierra Club’s ‘Beyond Coal Campaign’ in Ohio. “The Governor should use a line-item veto on this short-sighted subsidy."

The Sierra Club only pretends to care about Meigs county residents when they can twist an argument in their favor. They don't care if you're unemployed.

"The Sierra Club also said in its statement “this development raises new doubts regarding AMP-Ohio’s commitment to its workers;"

Oh yes, that's what it means. AMP doesn't care for it's workers because it's financially capable of self insurance. Remember, these people are not really brain dead. They want to stop all coal, including clean coal technology. They'll do and say anything to stop it.

"Temporary housing would only be needed if AMP-Ohio intended to hire large numbers of workers from outside the local area of the plant. The unemployment rate for Meigs County was 14.1 percent in May.”"

Um, if Meigs county can't supply all the steel workers, pipe fitters, equipment operators, etc, etc....AMP should not build the plant in Meigs county because all the labor won't come from Meigs? Is there some new requirement where one has to work in the county they reside?

"The unemployment rate for Meigs County was 14.1 percent in May.”"

Yes, and the EnviroNazis want to keep it that way.

Two stories about stone age EnviroNazis trying to keep us unemployed

From the Pomeroy Daily Sentinel:
Thunder rolls at AMP meeting

AMP reacts to latest hearing

I still here AMP and UMW folks talking like if you just compromise a little, like talking about wind and solar, that the EnviroNazis will see that coal is not the only energy being used for electricity by AMP, then lighten up.

Well, how many times do we need to remind folks, the EnviroNazis don't care about clean coal, they want NO coal. They don't care about you being unemployed, they don't care that coal is cheap and makes inexpensive electricity.

These are National Socialists and want control. They don't care one bit about us locally. They want to stop progress, period. Then when energy has to be rationed (like they want to do with health care BTW), they will be the ones telling us who gets the energy and how to use it,...."responsibly" you know.

EnviroNazis can't make bail, still in jail

Let's see, break the law, trespass on other's property, get thrown in jail, use your bail as a fund-raising / publicity tool.

Blogger at From on High has these comments, comments that I don't need to add to as many of southeastern Ohio job seekers feel the same way.

"Now, This Should Break Your Heart

A bunch of lice-infested college kiddies on summer break are sitting behind bars and their parents won't bail them out.
Boo. Freaking. Hoo.
Actions have consequences, children. You want to save the planet by denying the only jobs those miners have available to them? You'll be doing it from a jail cell, sweetheart. Hopefully, for a long, long time.

Heck, if we're lucky, it'll keep you from going back to that badminton major you're pursuing over at Virginia Tech.

Now that's Mountain Justice."

Link to story here....from EuroNews24.org no less.

"BEAVER, W.Va. - Environmental group Mountain Justice says six people arrested on trespassing charges during a coal mining protest are still jailed.
The group said Sunday the six have been unable to raise $2,000 cash apiece to make bail.
All six were arrested a day earlier at Richmond, Va.-based Massey Energy Co.'s Marfork Coal mining complex in Pettus. Mountain Justice says they were protesting Massey's plan to blast at the mine.
Mountain Justice and a group called Climate Ground Zero say blasting could cause a coal slurry dam at the site to collapse.
The arrests are the latest in a string of approximately a half-dozen trespassing incidents at Massey mines in West Virginia this year.
Massey operates mines in West Virginia, Kentucky and Virginia."

More EnviroNazi Propaganda

Bandmonline.com is the online edition of the weekly student-run newspaper at Muskingum College, the Black & Magenta. Apparently student "reporters" can't dig for facts anymore than full time "reporters".

"story" here

"Meigs County is home to four coal-fired power plants" The real answer is "Meigs County is home to ZERO coal-fired power plants"

Pretty substantial discrepancy.

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth." Vladimir Lenin

"Community members are actively resisting the threat to create up to five more proposed coal-fired plants in the area."

Could be a true statement, however this is more true..... the vast majority of Meigs county citizens support the AMP power plant. All Meigs County elected officials support it as well. A few local citizens are against the power plant, but most opposition is from outside radicals that want no coal burned in the US.

EnviroNavis VIII

More of the same. Meigs county has an unemployment rate of 15% and these people want to keep it that way.

Pomeroy Daily Sentinel story

EnviroNazi training camp

May 17-23, 2009: Mountain Justice Training Camp

Some of these folks are the same ones protesting the AMP power plant in Meigs county.

Foreclosure hike ranks Meigs 2nd

Meigs County had Ohio’s second-largest increase in the rate of foreclosures last year

One more reason Meigs county citizens need to get active and support AMP.

They also need to actively oppose the EnviroNazis who are trying to keep good jobs from coming to one of the poorest counties in the state.

Meigs AMP "permit to install" issued by OEPA

This is one of many permits required.

Pomeroy Daily Sentinel story

They've already obtained:

• the air permit-to-install (finalized February 2008)
• National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit (finalized November 2008)
• 401 Water Quality Certification (finalized January)
• Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need-Generation Facility (finalized March 2008)
• OPSB Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need-Transmission Line (finalized November 2008)

"An application for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 404 Permit remains pending and the final air and NPDES permits are being appealed by various opponents of the project. "

I wonder if this is why the Roman Empire fell? Permitted themselves out of existence?

Notice the EnviorNazis are still throwing up road blocks to stop these new jobs from coming to Meigs County.

Where's Debbie Phillips? Is she trying to facilitate the permitting process? One doubts it. She protested the Walmart being built in Athens of all things!

The EnviroNazis never stop

Green groups fight proposed Meigs power plant

"Three environmental groups are challenging air- and water-pollution permits issued last year by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to American Municipal Power (AMP) for a proposed coal-burning power plant near Letart Falls in Meigs County.
The National Resource Defense Fund (NRDC), the Sierra Club and the Ohio Environmental Council (OEC) exchanged oral arguments with Ohio EPA Director Chris Korleski before a state appeals commission Feb. 4. A final hearing is scheduled for early August."

These people, mostly outsiders, don't care that we have few jobs. They don't care that Century Aluminum just shut down, costing 679 jobs. Century employed many from Southeastern Ohio.

"Century Announces the Curtailment of Ravenswood, WV Smelter
MONTEREY, CA, Feb 04, 2009 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- Century Aluminum of West Virginia, a wholly owned subsidiary of Century Aluminum Company (NASDAQ: CENX), today announced its intention to conclude the orderly curtailment of the remaining plant operations at its Ravenswood, WV aluminum smelter by February 20. On December 17, pursuant to the Federal Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN), the company informed employees of the possibility of curtailment of the entire plant at the end of a 60 day period; it also began the immediate, orderly curtailment of one of the plant's four potlines.
The WARN notice specified that plant operations would be curtailed unless the selling price for aluminum stabilized and the company was able to reduce costs materially and thus reduce the monthly cash losses it has been experiencing.
The Ravenswood smelter, which was constructed in 1957, employs 679 men and women and produces 170,000 tonnes annually at full capacity. The orderly curtailment of the plant's remaining three potlines will begin immediately and will be completed by February 20. The plant will be carefully maintained to allow for the possibility of reopening, if justified by market
conditions. Layoffs for the majority of the plant's remaining 651 employees are expected to be completed by February 20."

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