Times covers coal events

The Illinois Times has an article this week about Shimkus' global warming comments, Liberty Brew & Movie and next week's Sierra Club program meeting.

Blumenshine has visited longwall mining sites, observing “huge cracks and wavy surfaces” on adjoining roads and stagnant water pooling in once-flat farmland. She plans to provide attendees with further examples of the method’s effects.

“The public is really being misled in the that the discussion about coal from the industry side never deals with the mining impacts on the environment,” Blumenshine says. “We’ll be looking at immediate concerns for Illinois prime ‘ag’ land that’s due to longwall mining moving into Montgomery County and likely other counties unless something is done about it.”