“Clean Coal!
It’s America’s Future!”
A New Television Commercial,
From The Coal Industry
‘Clean Coal’ - An Oxymoron If There Ever Was One
Music: Nostalgia
I was feeling quite nostalgic yesterday
I drove out to a childhood fishing hole
But I couldn’t even get out of my truck
It was now toxic, filled with slurry coal
‘Coal Slurry’ is the black, contaminated, liquid
That is left behind, in ‘the coal washing process’
It contains arsenic, lead, mercury, and selenium
My childhood fishing hole, now an abysmal mess
There was a time, when I had so joyously fished here
There was a time here, my dogs romped and played
The fish and the birds, and the clean water, are gone
My old childhood haunt, is a toxic, slurry pond, today
Even worse, more and more of America’s farmlands
Are being taken over by coal, gas, and oil operations
Which all now leave behind, tons of toxic contaminants
On land adjacent to food crops, also contaminating them
More and more of America’s once pristine heartland
Is being taken over by gigantic coal mining operations
And our Congressmen recently passed a horrendous bill
Which will block - any and all - toxic coal slurry regulations
And so very sadly, just about every Presidential candidate today
Says that they want to abolish The Environmental Protection Agency
They want to give free reign to coal, gas, and oil producing companies
And now allow all of them, to pollute our vast nation, from sea to toxic sea
I was feeling quite nostalgic yesterday,
I drove out to a childhood fishing hole;
But I couldn’t even get out of my truck,
It was now toxic, filled with slurry coal.
At this horridly large and unlined slurry pond,
They ‘clean the coal’ from 30 different mines;
These deadly toxins spill into adjacent waters,
But few are concerned, or view this as a crime.
The once pristine landscapes of our nation,
Are now so hideously vanishing, every day;
But very few seem to even notice, or to care,
As so very much of what we had, is swept away.
©February 2012, Mr. Ed
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may they increase in numbers
to add back not take away!!!
Thanks
*Mr Ed* for being one!!!
Lady Vivian
WE SHOULD ERECT 'GALLOWS' AT EVERY SUCH SITE ...
THEN 'HANG' EACH N' EVERY CORPORATE CEO WHO WAS 'AT THE HELM'!
I'M WITH AMBER ... BACK TO NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE!
ASK MEAN TALL WOMAN TO PLEASE RUN FOR PRESIDENT ...
GOT MY VOTE!
Blessings,
Christine
so much distruction to pristine places. Outstanding write Mr. Ed
Lady Mary Ann
you poem is effectively powerful and quite sad ...
Peace, love and light,
Amber
Anna