8:32 AM 02/20/2019 | Energy
Michael Bastasch | Energy EditorFormer Vice President Al Gore said Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam can fulfill his “racial reconciliation” pledge by opposing the Atlantic Coast pipeline, which he called a “racist rip-off.”
“This is an ideal opportunity for him to say, ‘I’ve seen the light,’” Gore said at an anti-pipeline town hall in a historically black part of Buckingham County, Virginia, as part of an “Environmental Justice Tour,” the AP reported.
Gore appeared on stage with his daughter Karenna Gore, Rev. Dr. William Barber II, environmental activists and residents of Union Hill, a historically black neighborhood, who oppose the Atlantic Coast pipeline.
Gore and climate activists see Northam’s recent blackface controversy as a way to turn him against the Atlantic Coast pipeline. (RELATED: Trump Will Officially End Negotiations With California On Fuel Economy Rollbacks)
Northam’s political future was thrown into doubt early in 2019 after his medical school yearbook photos surfaced, showing a picture of an individual in blackface and another in a KKK hood.
Former U.S. Vice President and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore speaks this year’s Nobel Peace Prize Forum, in Oslo, Norway December 11, 2018. NTB Scanpix/Heiko Junge via REUTERS.
Northam apologized for being in the photo, but, one day later, claimed he wasn’t in the photo amid calls for his resignation. He did, however, admit to wearing shoe polish for a dance contest in 1984. The embattled Democratic governor refused to resign, and wanted to focus on “racial reconciliation,” The Washington Post reported.
Barber said Northam needed to address “systemic racism” to truly atone for wearing blackface.
“If you want to be a great governor, if you want to help lead the nation, the first thing you oughta do is stop by Union Hill and tell this compressor, tell Dominion, ‘I was wrong, but I’m gonna do right, now,’” Barber said in a fiery speech Tuesday night.
The Atlantic Coast pipeline will bring natural gas 600 miles from West Virginia, through Virginia to North Carolina. The Richmond-based utility Dominion Energy will build and operate the pipeline.
Dominion plans on building a natural gas compressor station in the historically black Union Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. The Atlantic pipeline is one of many around the country environmentalists are fighting to block as part of their effort to keep fuel from getting to consumers who need it.
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam, accompanied by his wife Pamela Northam announces he will not resign during a news conference in Richmond, Virginia, U.S. February 2, 2019. REUTERS/ Jay Paul.
Dominion proposed spending $5.1 million in the Union Hill community, which could include building a community center, improving emergency services and grants for businesses.
The Atlantic Coast pipeline will create thousands of jobs and lower energy bills, supporters say. However, the project has suffered delays and cost overruns while it’s caught up in litigation with environmental groups.
Gore called the pipeline a “vivid example of environmental racism,” and claimed compressor stations, like the one planned for Union Hill, can “cause lots of diseases” and emit lots of noise.
“We’ve heard about explosions and accidents,” Gore said, also claiming newer pipelines are even less safe — though, like his other claims, this is likely untrue.
Gore also called for Dominion to abandon the project and, instead, build more wind turbines and solar panels.
When did Algore because Jesus or a priest?
For all anyone knows it could be a contrived controversy to force his capitulation in the matter.
So I guess that’s how Al ‘atones’ for his attempted rape of a masseuse here in Portland?
While I’m typically all for riding Gore out on a rail anytime he shows up, what data is there for the disease and noise issues? If they’re handing out lots of free stuff there’s usually some big negatives hiding in the weeds.
I guess paying indulgences to his high priest Al Gore will solve all problems ethical and moral..
Always the same answer…. Pay Me and your forgiven…
It’s fascinating how the Left cannibalizes itself.
I thought Mr. ManBearPig had finally gone away. Now I see he has no shame at all.
As Gore, reached down and kissed his vestmants he raised his hand over Northam and said the words of absolution: “I absolve you of all your sins, in the name of GAIA, and her lands, and the holy spirit of the Greens.”
Sounds like the envirofascists are pulling the race card in order to attempt to push through their anti-fossil-fuel, anti-democracy, and anti-humanity agendas.
Who has more integrity? Algore or a pimp?
Yes, it’s a rhetorical question. Obviously the pimp.
Typical liberal: A white guy that ‘knows’ what blacks need….
Union Hill, VA seems like one of the best places to locate a gas compressor station.
Few people, lots of empty lang ….
If you can’t have it in places like that, then I guess we’ll have to completely give up gas.
My furnace and dryer and water heater are all gas; criminy.
https://roadsidethoughts.com/va/union-hill-xx-buckingham-census.htm
Let’s make a deal……with the devil.
In 1077 Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV knelt before the gates of the Pope Gregory VII’s palace barefoot in the snow for three days as penance seeking absolution from excommunication.
It established the pre-eminence of church over state, albeit temporarily.
Here ‘His Holiness’ has laid down the condition, the penance, under which a representative of the state can be similarly absolved in order to confirm the subservience of the state to the new religion.
‘Pope’ Gore should be careful though, a decade or so after Emperor Henry’s humiliation German nobles sacked Rome and chucked Pope Gregory out.
Al who?
Mr. Trudeau, in light of the SNC-Lavalin scandal, you can atone by building all the pipelines.
Maps of male racist Atlantic Coast pipelines :
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-samsung&biw=360&bih=288&ei=Yg1vXNz8Ioyh6QSCo5KICQ&q=atlantic+coast+pipeline+map&oq=Atlantic+Coast+pipelines&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.
Maps of male racist Atlantic Coast pipelines :
https://www.google.com/search?client=ms-android-samsung&biw=360&bih=288&ei=Yg1vXNz8Ioyh6QSCo5KICQ&q=atlantic+coast+pipeline+map&oq=Atlantic+Coast+pipelines&gs_l=mobile-gws-wiz-serp.
cause Gore said
“We’ve heard about explosions and accidents,” Gore said, also claiming newer pipelines are even less safe — though, like his other claims, this is likely untrue.”
said gore.
He invented the very medium by which wattsupwiththat exists, yet is attacked here by people who could not bench press quarter of his weight, atonement is indeed due.
From Gore? well of course the Yoda of false equivalence and failed predictions.
Offended you are? A sh1t I dont give!
Gore seems to think that opposing a pipeline is morally equivalent to opposing a Halloween costume worn by a reformed racist decades ago. I wonder if he would think the same thing if Northam was a Republican who opposed infanticide?
Was thinking about this renewable energy business, and it seems to me that what is behind it IS actually religion – A form of Sun worship. This is why any form of energy which derives either directly or indirectly from the Sun’s rays is seen as holy, and any other, as evil.
Although, the fossil fuels they hate are nothing more or less than stored solar energy. Yet at the same time the Greens are trying to push the idea of storing solar energy with batteries. Make sense? No? I agree.
Meanwhile in Maine….
https://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2019/02/clean-energy-the-northeast-is-back/
https://bangordailynews.com/2019/02/15/politics/mills-lifts-lepage-ban-on-new-wind-power-permits-in-maine/?amp
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/02/20/governor-signs-onto-deal-to-back-cmp-corridor-project/
Al Gore should have appeared on stage in ‘blackface’ to illustrate what he thinks are the dangers of pipelines. He could also have come on stage strumming on a solar panel.
So, according to Gore, pipelines are now racist issues?