Green Tech Girl

The thing that really ticks me off about Obama is that he’ll say or do one thing that will make liberals really happy (like announcing better fuel standards for cars) and then when you’re not paying as close attention, try to swindle some piece of crap under your nose. In an extremely egregious example, last week the EPA approved 42 our of 48 mountaintop removal permits, more than in the entire history of two terms of G.W. Bush! These mountaintop removals are extreme forms of strip-mining as a means of accessing coal. Coal? Why coal? Where’s our solar power? Where’s our wind power?

From the Huffington Post:

Have 42 out of 48 permits for mountaintop removal — the process of blowing up our nation’s oldest and most diverse mountains, razing historic communities, poisoning watersheds, and causing massive erosion and flooding, which Vice President Al Gore has termed “a crime, and ought to be treated as a crime” — cleared as “environmentally responsible” by the Obama administration’s EPA?

In effect: Residents in the mountaintop removal areas have been subjected to a kind of waterboarding environmental policies.

Here is another article on the subject:

‘Appalachian Apocalypse’: Obama Permits Mountaintop Removal Mining

All I have to say is, environmentalists need to keep a strict eye on the Obama administration. Environmental platitudes sent out in the form of headline-making press releases do not equate to a real commitment to the environment or solving our energy problems as cleanly as possible. Shame on them for actually making Bush look better when it comes to this issue.