KEEP OUR STREAMS SAFE FROM COAL MINING!!

Too bad... I'd love to sign the petition, but it's 1.) not exactly my place to judge what people do, 2.) is there an age requirement? but the previous should take care of not having to answer that question. If I were to judge what people do, the human world would be a wreck (I think...) Anyways, if they don't pay it now, they'll pay for it later with intrest. That's what'll happen, and that's what's going to happen now, or sometime soon (from all the previous things done that have harmed nature in some way or another.) Well, even if I haven't signed the petition, I (hopefully) helped put something that might rally for it.

OK one more time, what is the procedure to get a national referendum for any issue. Local and State referendums seem to have some clout-- back in the boonies here, we have stopped casino building until the cows come home with one local referendum fight after another...These "casino people" have money and persistence as well.

Sorry, you can't trust either party on this coal mining issue, how many signatures until both sides of our "representative democracy" have to back off and institute some intelligent conservation regarding coal/electrical production and utilization.

I have never really talked to a coal miner, are jobs that hard to find where they are from that they simply don't care what happens to their immediate area? I've only seen a television program or two about how one day there is a beautiful forested mountainside and within a few months there is nothing but flat dirt and rock...That to me would be as great a travesty as making a landfill over our beautiful farmland...Miners have the right to referendum as well...I hope!

If there are any mining engineers out there, what is really saved when comparing cost/ton of coal from traditional methods and mountaintop removal?

Boys and their toys, build machines that can remove a mountain, by golly, we will remove that mountain! Who is operating that machinery? They always seem to have other profitable subsidiaries which are easier boycotts...Nasty, but effective!

I'll bet you my computer the people of Wisconsin would not put up with this, I'll even bet they wouldn't in California...Well--would your state?

Yeah, what DesertCat said!! Onechance gave me this lead and asked me to post since he's so busy with schoolwork and work in general. I thank him for the heads up! Anytime buddy! Any time at all. I can almost always find a minute for a good cause such as this one. DesertCat is right too, pass this on to others and ask them to do the same. Thank God for the internet! They can edit our news on TV and in hard copy, but they still can't stop the internet conversations. Not yet anyway! So keep it going!!!

I sign every petition I get, and I get plenty for animal and environmental protection but signing petitions is not enough. We have to convince the other side how important this issue is. Otherwise we are just preaching to the choir.

With the friends I made on my trivial site and at youtube and other places, we email daily back and forth jokes, stories, pictures etc. Many of these people support conservative ideas, I make sure they get articles like this in the hopes of turning them green.

Pass the petition to friends, neighbors, coworkers etc. We need the support of non greens to make big changes.

Must sign right away.

hey, Onechance: thanks for the heads up

I will definitely push for the protection of the environment 'til the day I die... some people don't understand we are all part of the same ecosystem... and we need to stop these companies' interests from destroying Mother Earth and the future of everyone's children and grandchildren

Done, Thanks!!!

I'm gona built my own streams with blackjack and hookers, you know what, forget the black jack and the streams, ehh forget it.

In these hard economic times it will be hard to get people to support such a bill. Most people think in present time and not future time. Jobs are needed today, the environment tomorrow. Wish it were not so. I live in PA and not far from Buffalo and seen the damage strip mining has done here.

Please stand up for YOUR envirnment. It's the only one we've got and if we don't protect it, NOTHING ELSE WILL MATTER.

Thanks!!!