Tagged: Coal

April 27th, 2009

Stop Cliffside, Waterkeepers Protest In North Carolina

In the past few months, people from all across the country have started to realize that clean coal is a dirty lie. Yet, powerful coal companies like Duke Energy continue their plans to build more deadly coal-fired plants, such as the two 800-megawatt coal-fired units in Cliffside, North Carolina.

Recently, the North Carolina Division of Air Quality (DAQ) ruled that Duke Energy’s Cliffside coal plant is a “minor source of emissions”. Talk about a dirty lie. Duke Energy is the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases in the US. If the Cliffside plant is completed, it will emit over 6 million tons of CO2 every year, and will use coal from mountaintop removal sites.

On April 20th, Waterkeeper Alliance was joined by environmental groups and protesters in a peaceful rally to stop the Cliffside Coal Plant in Charlotte, North Carolina (www.stopcliffside.org). You can help by joining us. Or, you can show support by donating today.

Your contribution helps us continue fighting companies like Duke Energy. Every donation helps. Our future depends on it.
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April 8th, 2009

How Can Coal Be Clean?

In lieu of the recent energy crisis, the coal industry has spent millions of dollars on a national public awareness campaign, touting the benefits of “Clean Coal” and propagating the nationalistic slogan that coal is “America’s Power”. The idea that coal can be clean is nothing more than a dirty lie. The coal industry accounts for deadly air pollutants, water contamination, fish poisoning, toxic mercury emissions—causing irreversible damage to our health, our food supply and our environment.

In response, Mouth created a digital awareness campaign for Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s Waterkeeper Alliance, called The Dirty Lie (www.thedirtylie.com). The campaign has generated enough press to put us right smack in the middle of the coal wars. Below is a short list of recent press. And we’re just getting started.

  • New York Times
  • Vanity Fair
  • Adweek
  • Huffington Post
  • ABC
  • CW
  • Creativity

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    December 11th, 2008

    …And Two Eyes Made Out Of Clean Coal?

    The coal industry is looking to make us believe that coal is warm and cuddly and that we should be thankful for their dirty fuel. What better way to do this than to bastardize our favorite Christmas carols and have them sung by what is supposed to be the worst thing you can get on Christmas, lumps of coal.

    One of 2 things is happening here. Either the the coal industry really is super evil and desensitized to the fact that they are causing tremendous damage to our environment and health, or their creative agency is playing a cruel joke on the jerks they work for. The only place that we can think of where lying to the public is normal and coal is great for Christmas, is hell. And that is where this campaign should go.

    See it at MSNBC

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