Surface mining may not move mountains. But a series of satellite views of a Boone County, West Virginia coal mine shows that the practice—also called mountaintop mining—can wipe out whole swaths of forests.
Video: Hobet Mine, 1984-2009

Taken between 1984 and 2009 by NASA’s Landsat 5 satellite, the true-color pictures document the evolution of the Hobet mine in the [...]

WASHINGTON from the New Your Times — Coal-country lawmakers moved Thursday to impose a two-year moratorium on potential federal regulation of carbon dioxide and other climate-altering gases.
Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, Democrat of West Virginia, said theEnvironmental Protection Agency should refrain from issuing any new rules on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and other major [...]

Environmental activists are attacking a $60 billion deal that will keep Chinese power stations supplied with Australian coal for at least the next two decades. Under the agreement announced last week, the Australian coal and iron ore mining company Resourcehouse will build a new mining complex to give China Power International Development 30 million tonnes [...]

By Bob Williamson
As has been highlighted in several articles such as, ‘Consumption in a finite world of resources. – How can we sustain a future that isn’t FINITE?’
‘The Most IMPORTANT Video You’ll Ever See and The SCARIEST Facts You’ll Ever Read!’
‘Undercover of Consumerism and Complacency, our democracy and self rule were usurped.’
‘Economic & Environmental Sustainability [...]

High unemployment and powerful industry make new mining limits unlikely
Most of us take it for granted that when we flip the switch, the lights will go on. Sure, we write the electric company a monthly check, but otherwise lend no thought to the source of the power — like urban kids clueless that chicken originates [...]

Greenhouse Neutral Foundation comment: I have long said that Australia while claiming to have around 1.46% of total global emissions of CO2 exports its contribution proudly for the emissions of 30% of total world export coal. This hypocrisy seems now to be gaining some other popular consensus and discussion. I am pleased to finally see [...]

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When viewing this video presentation explaining the simple math of the Exponential Function, there are a couple of observations that the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation would [...]

Power companies, investment bankers and pension fund managers are fuelling an unlivable future – with our money
The acid test of the Copenhagen climate change summit was always going to be coal. Had governments managed to come up with a meaningful agreement, those who seek to continue burning coal would have faced significant risk that they [...]

ZERO Greenhouse Emissions – The Day the Lights Went Out – Our Future World
(available in Hard Cover $24, or in e-book form $9.99)
Author Bob Williamson – Chair & Founder of the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation
Chapter 1
The Flick of a Switch.
Looking back it all seemed to happen with the flick of a switch. The morning came as [...]

Mother Nature had the right idea when she sequestered carbon away over the millennia. And like any woman she loves diamonds. So her plan was that eventually everyone would have the opportunity to have some.
What she didn’t see coming was that we would get to it first before she had time to finish the process [...]