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matthewf
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(17,320 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)so bad that the mine is shut down and the people are out of work. Don't push it and they are being contaminated, sickened, birth defects, and in many cases death. While you would think they would choose health, it is a slow decline that doesn't appear until later and may be caused by other things.
A similar situation is where I live and in coastal Louisiana where oil is King. Many defended BP and hated Obama for the moratorium on drilling operations while their environment was ruined.
As long as there are no changes in campaign finance to stop the legal bribery, capitalism and the free market, through the coal and oil companies are going to exterminate us all!
subject
(118 posts)all their lives by mining corporations. I smell the stench of willful ignorance.
Mr_Jefferson_24
(8,559 posts)... for which responsible parties should be held accountable, and that should mean huge punitive fines and prison terms for some.