Comments on: Updates from West Virginia on Jim Hansen’s protest and debate

By: E.M.Smith

E.M.Smith — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:51:43 +0000

Last year there was a string of bomb threats, and this fellow was arrested for SNIP! a least

I think that ought to be spell checked…

By: MC

MC — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:35:49 +0000

It sounds like Hansen/Blankenship cannot agree on a time and place for the debate.

By: NS

NS — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 07:54:04 +0000

“At a time of great fiscal challenges, this legislation is paid for by the polluters who currently emit the dangerous carbon emissions that contaminate the water we drink and pollute the air we breathe,” he said.

Lol – watch out Coke & Pepsi – they’re coming for you next.

By: RoyFOMR

RoyFOMR — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:49:25 +0000

I don’t understand why Darryl Hannah is getting into tow with this crowd. She, of all people, must see that adapting to Climate Change is a far more effective strategy than the Canutian approach favoured by her fellow-travellers.

She’s proven already that sea-level rises are not an issue for her. It makes a sorry tail that she’s now getting splashed up on the front pages, for all the wrong reasons, along with her new chums.

By: P Walker

P Walker — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:32:59 +0000

A friend who does business with Massey was going to call and ask about the debate . I havan’t heard back . From the cired arrest article , it looks like Blankenship might wind up in bed with the UMWA – strange times .

By: MC

MC — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:21:54 +0000

Hansen chose that mine protest site as it is more about the construction of a coal silo tower near an elementary school, which is a heart-tug to everyone, including us skeptics.

Mountaintop removal, and the side problem of constructing the silo beside the school, is a separate issue from CO2 driving climate change that will destroy the planet. I do not like mountaintop removal it either. I do not buy the CO2-driver-only concept. However, I believe he just hopes nobody notices that little difference. Maybe the CO2 issue is running low, considering the current cooling trend going in the opposite direction of increasing CO2 levels.

By: Tom in Texas

Tom in Texas — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:15:55 +0000

“One Massey supporter was also arrested, and charged with battery during a brief confrontation with protesters.”

I hope he popped Hansen.

By: MC

MC — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:11:15 +0000

Here’s the latest article…

Daryl Hannah, scientist arrested at W.Va. mine protest

SUNDIAL, W.Va. — More than two dozen people — including actress Daryl Hannah and NASA climate scientist James Hansen — were arrested Tuesday in the latest protest in a growing civil disobedience campaign against mountaintop removal in Southern West Virginia.

By Ken Ward Jr.
Staff writer
The Associated Press
A West Virginia state trooper arrests actress Daryl Hannah during a mountaintop removal protest on Tuesday.

Thirty-one protesters were charged with obstructing officers and impeding traffic after they sat down in the middle of W.Va. 3 outside Massey Energy’s Goals Coal preparation plant in Raleigh County.

Protesters dropped their initial plan to enter the Massey operation, and risk arrest for trespassing, when several hundred coal miners, family members and other industry supporters blocked the entrance to the site. One Massey supporter was also arrested, and charged with battery during a brief confrontation with protesters.

“Tensions were pretty high,” said State Police Sgt. Michael Baylous. “But nobody got hurt and we’re pleased with that.”

Those arrested in the protest were among several hundred people who gathered for an anti-mountaintop removal rally, held just down the road in a field adjacent to Marsh Fork Elementary School. Organizers picked the site because of the school’s proximity — less than 300 feet — to Massey’s operations, especially the huge slurry impoundment up the hollow.

By: Ashby Lynch

Ashby Lynch — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:59:20 +0000

Why did Hansen choose this particular mine site? If I am not mistaken, this is the old Armco mine, and the product is primarily metallurgical coal, not steam coal. Are we going to build windmills without steel now? I guess that we will build windmills from met coal mined in underground mines that don’t have preparation plants and don’t use anymore electricity than can be supplied by windmills. Should make for an interesting system of production.

By: Tenuc

Tenuc — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:58:48 +0000

Obama quote:-
“At a time of great fiscal challenges, this legislation is paid for by the polluters who currently emit the dangerous carbon emissions that contaminate the water we drink and pollute the air we breathe.”

Confirms what I thought for a long time – the man’s a loony…

By: cbone

cbone — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:39:31 +0000

Ok. Who do I need to complain to at NASA to finally get this clown fired. It is inexcusable for a government employee to be arrested at a protest.

By: MC

MC — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:31:35 +0000

From radio news just now: Still no agreement on when/where the debate will take place.

By: MC

MC — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:29:36 +0000

From an article yesterday…

“Both sides, along with West Virginia Public Broadcasting, were trying to work out arrangements for the event to take place Wednesday at Mountain State University in Beckley. A time had not yet been set.”

By: AKD

AKD — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:24:31 +0000

Please, please, please tell me WV State Police release mugshots.

By: Ray

Ray — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:20:44 +0000

MC (12:55:17) :

Looks like Hansen found a way out of the debate.

By: MC

MC — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:18:46 +0000

I like this headline better…yet to mention Hansen’s name in the headline. Same article though…

Darryl Hannah, scientist arrested at W.Va. mine protest

NAOMA, W.Va. — Actress Darryl Hannah, NASA scientist James Hansen and more than two dozen other mountaintop removal mining opponents have been arrested during a protest in southern West Virginia.
By The Associated Press
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NAOMA, W.Va. — Actress Darryl Hannah, NASA scientist James Hansen and more than two dozen other mountaintop removal mining opponents have been arrested during a protest in southern West Virginia.

State Police said about 30 people were charged Tuesday afternoon after they blocked W.Va. 3 near a Massey Energy subsidiary’s coal processing plant in Boone County.

They were among several hundred protesters who held a rally outside an elementary school that sits about 300 feet away from the plant’s coal storage silo.

After the rally, the crowd marched quietly to the plant and attempted to enter the property. They were blocked by several hundred coal miners chanting “Massey.”

Hannah, Hansen, former Rep. Ken Hechler and 27 others then sat on the road and were arrested on misdemeanor charges of obstruction and impeding traffic.

By: Michael D Smith

Michael D Smith — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:16:32 +0000

So much for a debate, I presume Blankenship won’t sully his good name by debating with the criminal element of society…

By: NoAstronomer

NoAstronomer — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:15:30 +0000

Hansen is a disgraceful embarrassment to his position with NASA and to NASA. I feel that it is inappropriate for the government to be squandering my tax dollars paying his salary.

I assumed that he took a day off work.

/sarcasm off.

By: Lee Kington

Lee Kington — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:05:27 +0000

Hansen is a disgraceful embarrassment to his position with NASA and to NASA. I feel that it is inappropriate for the government to be squandering my tax dollars paying his salary.

By: MC

MC — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:55:17 +0000

Tuesday June 23, 2009
Darryl Hannah, Ken Heckler arrested at W.Va. protest
by The Associated Press

NAOMA, W.Va. — Actress Darryl Hannah, NASA scientist James Hansen and more than two dozen other mountaintop removal mining opponents have been arrested during a protest in southern West Virginia.

State Police said about 30 people were charged Tuesday afternoon after they blocked State Route 3 near a Massey Energy subsidiary’s coal processing plant in Boone County.

They were among several hundred protesters who held a rally outside an elementary school that sits about 300 feet away from the plant’s coal storage silo.

After the rally, the crowd marched quietly to the plant and attempted to enter the property. They were blocked by several hundred coal miners chanting “Massey.”

Hannah, Hansen, former Rep. Ken Hechler and 27 others then sat on the road and were arrested on misdemeanor charges of obstruction and impeding traffic.