For those BP'rs that regret that Hilary Lambert Hopper is on sabbatical from
the list... she is currently working with Sierra Club in Kentucky and as a
result is neck deep in the coal sludge disaster. If you are not aware of what
this is about then check out this website for graphics and links.

http://www.geocities.com/kyriverpal/martincoky.html

This is a weird scene in which the company that is responsible for the
disaster has been given the role of taking care of the disaster -- including
guarded roadblock checkpoints to keep out non-locals and the press. Health
risks, corporate responsibility, environmental disaster, cover-up, BIG COAL
(like BIG OIL), and the oddities of environmental politics. Overlay the
history of the Kentucky coal industry and the socio-economic realities of
regional poverty. This is NOT an environmental disaster in a remote and
unpopulated region, like the arctic or the ocean... people live and support
themselves on their land that has been polluted, they are also, some of them,
employed by the very same company that is responsible for the disaster.

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