- Compliance Energy Corporation's proposed underground Raven Coal mine covers 7657 acres. Compliance actually has mineral tenures over 71,000 acres from Fanny Bay to Campbell River. The Raven Mine would be just the beginning of the nightmare for Vancouver Island
· These rights are owned fee simple meaning no mineral taxes will be collected by the Provincial Gov’t which means no taxes to support health care, hospitals, education, infrastructure costs to our highways etc
· 3 Super Trucks would leave the Raven mine 24/7 every hour carrying 42 tons of coal travelling through Cathedral Grove and along the windy treacherous highway to Port Alberni. Same # of trucks coming back empty 24/7
·1,000,000 tonnes of rejects would be left on the ground with the potential (probability?) of serious acid mine drainage into productive salmon streams, ancient aquifers and into Baynes Sound, one of the most productive shellfish aquaculture areas in the world.
· The proposed Raven Mine is only the tip of the ice berg with the next projects planned to be open pit coal mines above Cumberland, close to Comox Lake, the water supply for the majority of the Comox Valley.
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Tens of thousands of residents in China’s southern Guandong Province gathered in the streets yesterday, occupying a highway to demonstrate against the development of a new coal plant near Shantou city. The residents say existing coal plants in the area are fouling local air and water, and are making people sick.
Each year, protests spring up to counter the construction of dirty coal plants. But this appears to be the biggest yet. Officials now say they will abandon plans to build a new coal plant in the area. Two people were reportedly killed in clashes with police, but the government is denying those reports.
China’s coal use has exploded over the last few decades. Since 1980, coal consumption in China has grown 500%, and now represents three quarters of consumption in Asia. That has coincided with a five-fold increase of lung cancer since 1970, now the leading cause of death in China. (Of course, an increase in smoking is also a huge contributor.)
Watch the protesters gather in the streets throughout Guandong Province protesting coal plants and local land rights:
With respect, and I support your ideals, but, if you want to get serious, stop preaching to the converted. Stop forming organisations with PC names and form a ninety nine percent insurrection of one! Anyone who attends your meetings will already be concerned with the inherent problems of mining a non-renewable, toxic resource. They will be already be aware of the economic interests that are ruining my planet. Do you honestly think anyone will turn up in favour of mining coal? If you believe that then I have a bridge for you to buy! Use facebook, Twitter and google! Tell everyone to simply turn up and protest. Any other course of action suggests that the only benefit will be the glorification of your organisation. Anyone attending will be tarred as a group and feathered by inference as being your disciples, your followers, sheep in a pasture of wolves. Naive indivuals who can only think or act when they have leaders. Act individually and en-masse and the man has to take you seriously! Email me and I will reveal all.
ReplyDeleteI stand for myself I refuse to stand in solidarity with a bunch of pre-occupied occutards whom are clearly railroaded by fashillitators. Delpi techniques and admission by various groups towards employment of NLP (Neuro linguistic prgramming) and censorship make clear this is a manipulative movement. The FiXX is in and it has nothing to do with the collectivist koolaid you are trying to peddle. The UN is trying to get their world government and these people work to frog march the masses right into it. A constitution of the individual should be declared to keep this systems' and occupys' collectivist poison in check and balance; otherwise there are no balances because occupy sure as hell hasn't made any statement to deal with their unabated collectivist consensus creation system. (con sensus, check the meanings. They are conning you into agreement).
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