new world next week - dec10

Well, the weather outside is frightful, but the elites are misdirecting our attention away from real environmental atrocities; and the New World Next Week won't let a bad connection get in the way of bringing you the real news you need to know now. Reporting from his hometown in West Virginia, James Evan Pilato of Media Monarchy joins James Corbett of Corbett Report to help shine some sunlight on what's going on while our mis-leaders grandstand in Carbonhagen... Something is rotten in the state of Denmark, indeed:

Story#1: Obama Uses Environmental Protection Agency to Declare Life-Giving CO2 a Toxic Evil Pollutant
Obama's Rule by EPA Decree a Coup Against Congress, Made in UK
UK Group Proposes Using Carbon Offsets to Stop Poor From Breeding

Story#2: Millions in US Drink Dirty Water, Records Show
Flashback: Dirty Water

Story#3: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Calls West Virginia Mountaintop Removal Mining a Crime
Hundreds Converge at WV Department of Environmental Protection

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kennedy calls wv mountaintop removal mining a crime

from ap: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Monday that mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia is a crime, and that if the American people could see it, there would be a revolution.

"We are cutting down the Appalachian Mountains, these historic landscapes where Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett roamed that are so much a part of American culture," the environmental attorney said at a rally to stop blasting on southern West Virginia's Coal River Mountain.

"It's God who made these mountains, and it's (Massey Energy chief) Don Blankenship who is cutting them down," Kennedy said.

Kennedy spoke as some 300 environmental activists cheered. At the same time, 200 coal miners jeered. The groups were kept apart by a line of state troopers and metal barricades.

The Virginia-based Massey plans to blast and mine thousands of acres atop the mountain, which has enough coal reserves to feed power plants for 14 years. Organizations including Coal River Mountain Watch and Climate Ground Zero want Massey to stick with underground mining and allow the ridges to be turned into a 200-turbine wind farm.

Before taking the stage, Kennedy waded into the crowd of shouting miners and spent a half-hour debating Massey Vice President of Surface Operations Mike Snelling and others.

"He's very passionate about what he was doing and I have to give him enough credit for walking through a crowd of a lot of people he would consider adversaries," Snelling said. "He just keeps talking about the environment and the concern for the environment and the mountains of Appalachia, and what we tried to tell him is that we are just as concerned about the mountains — or more than he is, for the fact that we live here."

The rally, held outside the state Department of Environmental Protection headquarters, was the latest of several demanding a halt to blasting on Coal River Mountain, which Massey calls contour and highwall mining, not mountaintop removal.

In mountaintop removal, forests are clear-cut. Explosives blast apart the rock, and machines scoop out the exposed coal. The earth left behind is dumped into valleys, covering intermittent streams.

Coal operators say it's the most efficient way — in some cases, the only way — to reach some reserves. They also argue they reclaim the land so it can be redeveloped. Critics say the land is ruined forever, and that people, property and the environment suffer unnecessarily.