Palin's "Clean Coal" Lie

[LeighAnn]

This is a letter to the editor from a paper in Homer, Alaska:

As we watched our Alaska Governor speak at the Republican convention, we were proud to see her do well. But then she said the words "clean coal."

As someone who's fished for Alaska salmon, the governor should know there's no such thing as "clean" strip mines. We live in the community of Beluga, close to Tyonek, on the west side of Cook Inlet, where an outside corporation wants to tear open a 55-square-mile coal strip mine.

The Department of Natural Resources -- the agency that illegally opposed the recent Clean Water Ballot Initiative -- already has accepted a permit application that would allow more than seven million gallons of mine waste to be dumped each day into the salmon fisheries of the Chuitna River

http://www.homernews.com/stories/091008/letters_21_004.shtml