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tclambert

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20. OMG, that poor coal company! Now people are gonna try to burden them with more regulations.

Tue Feb 11, 2014, 04:42 PM

Feb 2014

Well, maybe the Halliburton loophole will save them. Still, those eco-terrorists are probably gonna act like society should put the lives of poor people ahead of profits, poor people stupid enough to live downstream from coal operations. They just don't understand that profit is the sole way of measuring virtue in the corporate belief system. And since corporations are people and have all the first amendment rights of people, they have the right to their own beliefs.

Sigh.

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BREAKING: Pipe Break At Coal Facility Contaminates West Virginia Waterway [View all] ProSense Feb 2014 OP

Feels like deja vu all over again Electric Monk Feb 2014 #1

plus one Liberal_in_LA Feb 2014 #22

Bankruptcy declaration in 3...2..1... n/t Earth_First Feb 2014 #2

Has this been happening all along and only now are reporters paying attention? mainer Feb 2014 #3

Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Aerows Feb 2014 #18

+1 uponit7771 Feb 2014 #25

I'd be willing to bet you are right. dballance Feb 2014 #31

Yes. ReRe Feb 2014 #42

"Coal slurry is good for you. Smirk. Drink it up, you smelly proles. Sneer." - Republicons, Inc. Berlum Feb 2014 #4

I doubt this story get much air time. It should but, we live a corporate run state. JRLeft Feb 2014 #5

which is why the ptbs onethatcares Feb 2014 #27

Any hope of this being the straw that breaks the camels back? daleanime Feb 2014 #6

Better call Blackwater Blue Owl Feb 2014 #7

I hear you libodem Feb 2014 #19

Feels like eventually that part of America is going to be an abandoned toxic wasteland. n2doc Feb 2014 #8

Funny, and yet tragically possible! Aldo Leopold Feb 2014 #15

Not to worry, the free hand of the market will clean it up .... Scuba Feb 2014 #9

I am just glad these things mostly happen in Red States so the people can reap Bandit Feb 2014 #10

I think some of these people vote red for the same reason some people vote blue justiceischeap Feb 2014 #12

West Virginia's governor is a Democrat. JoeyT Feb 2014 #16

I'll say this one more time theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #33

:facepalm: Earth_First Feb 2014 #40

Oh, and the SOS, Commissioner of Agriculture, State Auditor and State Treasurer - all Democrats hatrack Feb 2014 #43

Some folks think having a (D) beside your name means you shun $$$ from Big Coal theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #49

Some folks think having a (D) by your name means real environmental protection hatrack Feb 2014 #51

Wait a minute... ReRe Feb 2014 #44

Patriot Coal. Freedom Industries. Kind of a theme here . . . hatrack Feb 2014 #11

Much of the US is in desperate for drinking water. It seems those who have it keep poisoning theirs. herding cats Feb 2014 #13

Chill out, it's the Clean Coal stuff. It probably tastes good on a milkshake NightWatcher Feb 2014 #14

Hear! Hear! ReRe Feb 2014 #45

OMG, not again! Aerows Feb 2014 #17

OMG, that poor coal company! Now people are gonna try to burden them with more regulations. tclambert Feb 2014 #20

W.VA. acts like a little spoiled child taotzu Feb 2014 #21

It's hard to describe the stupidity... without being accused of "region bashing"! rdharma Feb 2014 #34

Well, you just might wake up one of these days, ReRe Feb 2014 #46

k&r n/t RainDog Feb 2014 #23

PATRIOT Coal? FREEDOM Industries? JEFF9K Feb 2014 #24

Red... TRoN33 Feb 2014 #26

Oh really? theHandpuppet Feb 2014 #48

K & R !!! WillyT Feb 2014 #28

Invest in bottle water.... Historic NY Feb 2014 #29

K&R DeSwiss Feb 2014 #30

this picture never seems to become outdated.. G_j Feb 2014 #32

Sad ........ but so true! rdharma Feb 2014 #37

So does this mean God hates West Virginia? Motown_Johnny Feb 2014 #35

The people of West Virginia need to figure out who the "devil" is! nt rdharma Feb 2014 #38

This shit is heartbreaking TheKentuckian Feb 2014 #36

Regulations...... Smegulations!!!!!!!!! Tim4319 Feb 2014 #39

BFD! Enthusiast Feb 2014 #41

K&R ReRe Feb 2014 #47

Prosecute & lock up these crims!!! grahamhgreen Feb 2014 #50

Here we go again! B Calm Feb 2014 #52