Don Blakenship hates Wall Street. Amazing.

...As you reflect (click here) on what I write, remember that even Robert Kennedy Jr., said that I am an honest man. You should also know that I hold not only the liberals of the media, the union, and the environmental movement responsible for the plight of our country, but also those who call themselves conservatives who oversee corporate America. Many of these corporate executives too often place the pledge they sign each quarter to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley above their much more important “Pledge of Allegiance” to the United States of America and to that for which it stands.

He is a very sad figure. He is typical of the old guard to bitter to be relevant. No movie is going to exonerate the damage he has overseen to lives, families, communities, the natural world and the climate. His opinions are disregarded and he lacks leadership. The unions have more dignity than he. At least the mining unions are concerned for their people, their health, their safety, their salary and their quality of life. 

I am unapologetic to the obsolescence of coal. I understand the pain of unemployment, but, this form of energy has always been problematic. Before it was carbon dioxide and methane, it was NOX and SOX and acid rain. Coal has always been a problem fuel. The degradation to the land, the deaths of employees, the pollution of water and air and the egregious self-righteous bosses that state even Robert Kennedy states he is an honest man. Sure, but, Robert Kennedy was the Attorney General and perjury would require prison.