WV, environmental wasteland. Legislature passes law enabling fracking pollution. really.

[cali]

Wacko Greedo stupido. I can't even imagine having these fucksticks as legislators. A beautiful state turned into a nightmare.

I despise these pigs who do this and enable it.

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Bill on fracking waste shakes environmentalists

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Environmentalists raised concerns about a bill that won final passage Friday in the Legislature that would overturn caps on how much drilling waste several landfills can accept from hydraulic fracturing.

The bill, approved overwhelmingly in a special session and now sent to the governor, would allow so-called tonnage caps to be lifted for drilling waste at seven landfills that are continuing to pursue a permit to build separate areas for drilling waste. The bill also mandates that the Department of Environmental Protection monitor the sites for radioactivity and conduct a study on leaching.

The seven landfills are located in the state's northwest region and Northern Panhandle.

Delegate Stephen Skinner, D-Jefferson, who voted against the bill Friday, called it "a Band-Aid on a very serious problem."

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http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201403140131

[geek tragedy]

1. when the #1 thing voters agree on is "Fuck Obama and his EPA" this is what happens

so much natural beauty wasted on people who worship the coal companies

But, at least they have their guns, their Bibles, and a relative absence of people whose skin color makes them nervous

[cali]

5. that's really a SMALL piece of it. and you blow it up way the fuck too much

this is the legacy of practices that started 150+ years ago. It's about a small number of people and corporations looting, despoiling and raping the land. It's about sticking with what you know. it's about a long held fear of losing jobs. it's about a lot of things, but it far, far predates President Obama being elected.

[geek tragedy]

6. they hate Obama same reason they disliked Gore and Kerry--because he at least on some

days acts like he cares about the environment, especially climate change

There's an extra multiplier because he's an educated black man from the city who doesn't hump guns, fear gays, or denounce abortion, but the main reason they hate him is that the coal companies tell them to hate him

[cali]

7. yes, I know. As I pointed out that simply follows the trajectory they've

been on for so long.

[Autumn]

2. Wow.

[newfie11]

3. West Virginia has been polluted for many years

Just not covering as much ground as now. Now it's not just coal mines, chemical companies:etc. now it's fracking. And people keep voting the idiots in that promote this!!
It is a shame. West Virginia is/was a beautiful state with great people.

[jsr]

4. More like a Band-Aid on a staph infection

[a la izquierda]

8. Not shocking.

I just moved here. Nobody in this state government seems to give a shit about the environment.