Which is more realistic? Bringing back coal or turning the whole state into one big open air amusement park?
Which is more realistic? Bringing back coal or turning the whole state into one big open air amusement park?
Which is more realistic? Bringing back coal or turning the whole state into one big open air amusement park?
Coal is awesome despite the evil garden gnomes who sell it and the even more evil garden gnomes who concern troll about it.
Even the waste from the use of coal and mining it are important raw materials.
poisons the rivers
This seems to be also preventable.
Besides what I already mentioned, cheap abundant energy, easily converted into hydrogen, ammonia, methanol and many others, emissions from using it as an energy source can be easily controlled, ...
https://www.nrdc.org/experts/theo-spencer/new-rule-aims-stop-coal-mining-poisoning-water
>aims
awesome how?
How about you fucking off and leaving my god damn state alone. Fucking gays.
WV needs to repent and return to Ole Virginny
Komi is amazing.
Virginia here.
We don't want West Virginia.
Virginia is the Massachusetts of the south.
>Virginia is the Massachusetts of the south.
And you think that's something to brag about?
problem?
tourism
tourism
tourism, I think, is the more realistic option of the two
Coal is so fucking dirty and the only viable way to clean it is with chemicals. Otherwise, tons of mercury is put into the air which pollutes rivers and streams. It's a shame since there are 1000s of years of coal left.
West Virginia doesn't need an economy.
yes it does
tourism is the only way forward
If this country and its regulators weren't absolutely corrupt, WV could lead the way in coal thorium extraction.
Don't let the thread die. Thorium extraction could revitalize our main industry.
tell me more about it then
how does it work
Extraction from coal is not economically viable at this point but it would be the lifeline for the industry. Efforts could and should be made to improve the process but, politics require US to favor uranium. Just throwing it out there. Manchin is too beholden to special interests to make any waves.
>Extraction from coal is not economically viable at this point
seems to be for china and wyoming and far southern WV/eastern KY at the very least for whatever reasons
Feds are literally entrenched, your waters and soil are poisoned, and your people treated worse than shit.
Some of you will survive any hell, but it'll never be pretty.
there's some really clean waterways and some really dirty ones, sometimes right next to one another