Follow the Money

Follow the money. Rather like have a nice day, it is said often, and means about as much. How else to explain why it appears in so many venues, so often and gets such little response? Does it not suggest that we are talking about accountability? That we are talking about someones credibility?

There are a lot of politicians and appointees in the states of W. Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Montana. Yet there are not many continuing articles written about the money that flows quite freely from Consol, Peabody and the rest of the longwall mining criminals, to those politicians and agencies we the citizenry have charged with protecting the common good.

If creeks are still disappearing or polluted to extinction, homes collapsing, and peoples lives being destroyed after all these years of longwall and mountain top destruction mining, doesn't that suggest collusion? Doesn't that suggest that those in whom we have placed our trust have sold us out not once, but thousands of times in countless ways?

Joseph Pizarchik is the pimple on the end of the nose of longwall mining. With enough pancake makeup he appears as just part of the bland face that is presented as the agreeable head to the Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement, (OSMRE). Like Clean Coal, he is an illusion.

There is the possibility of a lawsuit concerning Mr. Pizarchik in the near future. This would be the makeup remover exposing the pimple, connecting it directly to the criminal enterprise that is longwall mining. This is where follow the money becomes meaningful. Meaningful because it is this money, which is buying longwall mining the ability to destroy the planet.