And here I thought Ohio was a sovereign state....

Kasich bows to the Governor of New York and his threats. Sad!

Instead of protecting the state of Ohio's economic future, Kasich caves in to the enviro-Nazis. Unbelievable!

Dispatch story here

More EnviroNazi idiocy

Cash for "clunkers". With the end result of drying up the supply of cheap cars that those with modest income can afford. Yep, the democrats are for the poor alright!

Mises Daily article here

"Who could possibly claim that buying up drivable used cars at prices far in excess of their market value, for the express purpose of destroying them, will be beneficial for the economy or the planet? You guessed it: a combination of economy-saving politicians and earth-saving green activists are peddling the wonders of a new government program popularly known as "Cash for Clunkers.""

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.

Great editorial exposing EnviroNazis

The Right Stuff: Sustaining jobs more important than sustaining planet

OU Post Columnist writes about EnviroNazis.

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."

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."

Previous posts: here, here, here, here and here.

Meigs County power plant protesters

Remember awhile back I told you there would be more attempts to stop all the jobs coming to Meigs county? Here's the link to that post.

Below is an older story from the Athens News about this very thing. Click on the picture for the story.

Well, they're now trying a different approach. Now they've got a Michael Moore type "documentary" being passed around by the cyber hippies.

I thought it might be a bad idea to give this biased, one sided "documentary" any exposure. However, I feel the folks in southeastern Ohio need to know the type of people that are trying to keep us poor and without work. These, so called, environmentalists apparently can't remember what it was like around here when we were really poor. Septic tanks? Didn't have any. Trash pick up? right. What do they think happened to the trash? Poor people had better things to do that worry about the environment, like keeping the crows out of the corn so they could eat in the winter.

But I digress, back to this "documentary". If you don't have 30 minutes, just go to the next post and forget this one. It takes about 30 minutes to view this "piece of work". I'd encourage those of you that live in Meigs, Galia and Athens counties to view this. If you are out of work and hoping to get a job at this power plant, you'll want to see what type of people want to keep you out of work.

This one is 2:48 minutes. here's the link. Watch the wild eyed crazy man. Apparently he didn't take his meds. This is the Al Gore lunatic part of the "environmentalist" movement.

This one is about 27 minutes long. It's the educated, smooth talking, we're smarter than you part of the "environmentalist" movement.

They both play heavy on emotionalism and little on logic, reason or facts.

Below are my comments that I jotted down while viewing this "documentary". If you haven't viewed the "documentaries" you'll have no idea what I'm saying... so go back up and view the first one. Then open another session and view the second one while looking at the comments below.

These comments are concerning the 2nd, longer, so called "documentary".

1. Notice the horse and buggy. This is where they want to take us. Back to horse powered lives. Have you noticed though, that none of them drive horse and buggies? What kind of examples are they setting?


2. Most of the women in Yellow Springs apparently use the same barber as the men.


3. Yellow Springs gets 35% of their electricity from "renewable" sources. However, their "renewable" sources are drying up. How can that be? Is it renewable / sustainable or not? Note: we haven't run out of COAL.


4. CJ Williams (co-owner of Living Green, really) believes we are going to be "kicked off this earth" if we use coal.


5. Brian Chase mentions the "controversy" in Meigs county. It's not the locals causing this, it's outside agitators.


6. Pulverized coal means nothing more than putting lumpy coal through a mill that basically grinds the coal into a fine dust. It can then be injected using air, for a clean, efficient and clean burn.


7. The big, wide short stacks are cooling towers. The mist coming out of them is water vapor.


8. "This plant will be the fifth power plant in the area" So? It's much safer and "environmentally friendly" to transport electricity via transmission lines than trucking coal to a power plant hundreds of miles away. Of course, they don't really care where it's built, they're against any new coal plant.


9. Is the guy in the green shirt getting ready to plant marijuana? What's he holding?


10. Elisa Young: On her way back from New Mexico, where she attended a Buddhist Boot camp?


11. Coal Gasification: She makes it sound bad. It's making the coal into a gas form, so it will burn cleaner and is in an easier form to use. Cleaner is what they say they want, but again, they really want us to not use coal at all.
    
12. "Contaminated water": The water is treated to as good, if not better condition than when it was brought into the plant. The OEPA is very strict and forces compliance.


13. Am I the only one that thinks that the group hanging out with her haven't bathed for a month?


14. Nothing meaningful happening in the legislature or the regulatory process? What she means is nothing meaningful that she wants.....from her perspective. Locals think that 3,000 construction jobs are meaningful. They also feel that hundreds of operations (full time) jobs are meaningful.


15. "If I wouldn't have moved out here, I never would have looked into this issue." Yes, you heard it right, she moved there....on purpose....and now wants Meigs County to conform to her wishes. (though later in the "documentary" she talks about some of her family being from there).


16. "you've got this whole student movement of conscious" (vs. unconscious?) "people who are moved to action whether or not they are directly impacted. (so these Trotskyites are just down here protesting to be protesting? Is this an assignment from some hippie professor in Athens?).


17. Is that vehicle she's driving propelled by fossil fuels? If she's against using dried up dead dinosaurs for fuel, she also should be against using liquefied dead dinosaurs. She's in a conundrum, if she gets an all electric car, she'd be a 100% hypocrite....rather than partial one like now. A little walking probably would be a good thing any way.


18. Notice all the shots of schools and play ground equipment. This Reeverts fellow must want a job with NBC the way he tries to influence the audience away from the facts.......what he really needed was an OEA member crying that it's all about the children.....just like they do when it's levy time....digressing again.


19. She's worried about global warming? Get with the times sister, now it's Climate Change. If you'd read this blog, you'd know that.


20. More shots of playgrounds. Barney the dinosaur looks cool.


21. Townships using slag on roads? So?


22. She keeps speaking for "our community". She's not...she can't. The vast majority of Meigs county wants the new power plant. She shouldn't give the impression that she speaks for "our community". If she wants to speak for Meigs County, she needs to run for Commissioner.


23. What's insane is sitting on massive stock piles of energy and not using them, while at the same time, buying oil from people that want to kill us.


24. The guy in the welding hat sure doesn't have any logical reasons not to build a power plant or mine coal.

"Green" hypocrisy

A story about the trash left behind by the Obama worshipers. Yes, the liberal, environmentalists that tell you how to behave. Look at how they behave.

News Buster's story

Bomb threat reported at Mountaineer Plant

Bomb threats at local power plants.

I wonder where one could find a group of radical "environmentalists" capable of doing such a thing in Southeastern Ohio????

"NEW HAVEN, W.Va. — Employees at Appalachian Power’s Mountaineer plant were evacuated Monday morning as law enforcement officers with the West Virginia State Police searched the area for a bomb."

"This is the second bomb threat the company has had the state police investigate. A similar call was placed at the John Amos Power Plant in Putnam County last week, Moye said. It was the fifth call made to that plant within several weeks."