Insanity?

Insanity:doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein (attributed)

Rocky Flats Plant was a nuclear weapons production facility located just to the north of Denver, Colorado. Radioactive waste was found leaking in an open field in 1959.

Love Canal, a little part of suburbia in Niagara Falls, NY. A chemical dump site that was found to be so toxic that the neighborhood was evacuated in 1978.

Dunkard Creek, in southwestern Pennsylvania. Poisonous waster is dumped routinely into the creek, setting up condition for a Golden Algae bloom. And, killing almost all living organisms in a 38 mile run.

After reading the three items above, one would think that any rational person would stop to think of the damage to be done by spilling, purposely or otherwise, poisonous waste onto the ground or into the water.

Ah, yes. Rational. CONSOL Energy is not a rational person. It is a planet killing longwall mining company. And, the people who run that company are not rational people. Not only do they want to continue, after killing all of the fish in Dunkard Creek, pumping their waste water loaded with poison into that same creek. They want to pump that same poison down into abandoned mines for safe keeping.

That doesn't sound like the ideas espoused by a rational person. That sounds more like the ranting of a complete lunatic. Someone that is completely insane. Or, someone who is so addicted to greed, that no thing or person matters as much as the profit to be gained by those exercises.

We already know what can and will happen if you pump that mess into a creek. We also know that if you pump it into an abandoned mine, it will begin immediately to leach. And, we also know that it will find it's way into the ground water, creeks, lakes and wells of those living in the area.

If one intentionally poisons the drinking water of another, that person will be charged with attempted murder. Yet these longwall mining operations are doing it legally all over the country every day. And, are lauded as job creators. Business success stories.

I agree that they are successful. But, it is my belief that they have been most successful at getting off scot free of attempted murder of the planet, and all that lives upon it.