Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Renewables are forcing the closure of US coal plants" video.

  1. You may have heard about Centralia PA. It is a town in the old anthracite coal region of the Appalachians, where the entire town was evacuated and given new homes because of the underground coal fires. I drive through there twice a week, and strip mining coal is still very active, enough to keep the highways a dirty mess with coal haulers dragging black culm onto the highways from their dirt roads continually, and the toxic black cloud you have to drive through to get past them. It is literally a black cloud that overhangs everything. BUT if you were to stop on the west side of Centralia (which is now about five or six houses who refused to leave, surrounded by empty lots where their former neighbors row houses were bulldozed (they never did get the underground fire put out) and you stopped right at the nearest strip mine operation and their filthy lots full of giant haulers that are too big to use on roads, and you looked back at where Centrailia used to be, you would notice that on the mountain ridge to the east , right above another mining operation, is the first of a series of wind turbines that generate electricity, that start there and follow that mountain ridge for a good twenty miles or so. Coal is death, and then people wonder why they are dying of all kinds of respiratory and metabolic diseases that are caused by coal and ICE vehicles.
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