TN Conservatives Angry, ANGRY I Tell You! Mountaintop Coal Mining Done By CHINESE Company!

[hatrack]

What's it take to get conservatives in Tennessee fired up about blowing up mountains? China, apparently.

On Tuesday, the Tennessee Conservative Union, which bills itself as the state's "largest and oldest conservative group," started running anti-mountaintop removal coal mining ads on television throughout the state. Their complaint? The Chinese company Guizhou Guochuang Energy Holding Group announced last year that it is acquiring Triple H Coal Mining, which does mountaintop removal. The Tennessee Conservative Union ad warns that they will become "the first state in our great nation to permit the red Chinese to destroy our mountains and take our coal." "We're proud that Tennessee is a red state," the ad concludes. "But just how red are we willing to go?"

The ad comes off as anti-China, but it also offers a critique of mountaintop removal coal mining in general, which is the big news here. The ad comes just a day before committees in both the state Senate and House are expected to vote on the Scenic Vistas Protection Act, a bill activists have been trying to get passed in the state for six years. The measure would make it illegal to blow up mountaintops to mine coal. Supporters are taking TCU's support for the bill as a sign that it might gain more traction this year.

"The Tennessee Conservative Union is 100% pro-Coal, but our organization does not support destroying our mountain heritage," TCU Chairman Lloyd Daugherty said in a statement Tuesday. "Mountaintop removal mining kills jobs because it takes fewer workers to blow up a mountain."

EDIT

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/03/tennessee-mountaintop-removal-china-conservative

[edgineered]

1. Unbelievable! So there is a path to enlightment for the RW after all. nt

[Generic Other]

3. Xenophobia is hardly a path to enlightenment

but it did make them reverse years of kowtowing to the corporations. Guess kowtowing to Amurricans feels different than kowtowing to the Chinese.

[Nihil]

2. You're a bit late sucker!

> but our organization does not support destroying our mountain heritage

"... unless *we* get to make a profit from it!"

Welcome to the world you've been creating hypocritical racist scum!

[wtmusic]

4. So...commies beat the capitalists at their own game.

My head is spinning.