Comments on: Environmental Impact Of 2008 Coal Ash Spill In Tennessee. http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2009/05/10/environmental-impact-of-2008-coal-ash-spill-in-tennessee/ Sustainability, Environment, Progressive Politics, Peak Oil, Going Green. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 20:40:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve Thiese http://www.thegoodhuman.com/2009/05/10/environmental-impact-of-2008-coal-ash-spill-in-tennessee/#comment-22304 Steve Thiese Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:55:46 +0000 http://www.thegoodhuman.com/?p=2385#comment-22304 There are so many unhealthy results from burning coal! Here in Utah, two colleagues of mine, Clair Jones of Utah Chapter Sierra Club, and Emily Fehrenbacher of Alaska , as well as many dedicated others, have been working diligently to get the NoBassCoal Campaign off the ground here. We held our first event, The NoBassCoal “Campaign Kick-off and Press Conference” on November 12 at 12 p.m., to inform Utahans that Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort owner, Dick Bass, is investing in what will be the largest strip mine ever in Alaska. The Chuitna Coal Project will destroy 30 square miles of salmon, bear and moose habitat in a pristine wilderness of Alaska , and dump millions of pound of CO2 into the atmosphere, eventually destroying Utah ”™s famous powder snow as well. But we are going to stop this mine! We had a great first event turnout of around 50, and at least 8 media outlets there as well, including Fox News. Speakers included Clair, Emily, and Forrest Shearer, a pro snowboarder with Protect Our Winters, who also happens to be sponsored by Snowbird. We all gave a rundown of how the mine will affect both Utah and Alaska , and displayed our campaign's artwork, which we have been developing with a fantastic design company based in L.A. Here is the awesome story that our local Fox News affiliate aired about our event: http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-environmentalists-want-snowbird-abandon-coal-,0,3254324.story Thanks to everyone who supported this event, and there will be many more to follow! We will keep at this until Dick Bass backs out of dirty coal! There are so many unhealthy results from burning coal! Here in Utah, two colleagues of mine, Clair Jones of Utah Chapter Sierra Club, and Emily Fehrenbacher of Alaska , as well as many dedicated others, have been working diligently to get the NoBassCoal Campaign off the ground here. We held our first event, The NoBassCoal “Campaign Kick-off and Press Conference” on November 12 at 12 p.m., to inform Utahans that Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort owner, Dick Bass, is investing in what will be the largest strip mine ever in Alaska. The Chuitna Coal Project will destroy 30 square miles of salmon, bear and moose habitat in a pristine wilderness of Alaska , and dump millions of pound of CO2 into the atmosphere, eventually destroying Utah ”™s famous powder snow as well. But we are going to stop this mine!

We had a great first event turnout of around 50, and at least 8 media outlets there as well, including Fox News. Speakers included Clair, Emily, and Forrest Shearer, a pro snowboarder with Protect Our Winters, who also happens to be sponsored by Snowbird. We all gave a rundown of how the mine will affect both Utah and Alaska , and displayed our campaign’s artwork, which we have been developing with a fantastic design company based in L.A.

Here is the awesome story that our local Fox News affiliate aired about our event:

http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-environmentalists-want-snowbird-abandon-coal-,0,3254324.story

Thanks to everyone who supported this event, and there will be many more to follow! We will keep at this until Dick Bass backs out of dirty coal!

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