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  • Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
  • The Northwest is square in the middle of a controversial global debate: Should the region build export terminals that would open lucrative markets for the world's dirtiest fossil fuel? As the U.S. economy continues to struggle, can the country afford not to?
    COAL is a KCTS 9 and EarthFix original documentary.
    For more information on the documentary, visit: kcts9.org/coal or earthfix.us/coaldoc.
    For ongoing reporting on Coal in the Northwest, visit EarthFix: earthfix.info/coal/
    Credits
    Written, Directed and Produced by
    Katie Campbell
    Photography by
    Michael Werner
    Katie Campbell
    Editor
    Michael Werner
    Narrator
    Katie Campbell
    EarthFix reporters
    Ashley Ahearn
    Bonnie Stewart
    Amelia Templeton
    Courtney Flatt
    Cassandra Profita
    Aaron Kunz
    Aerial photography by
    Katie Campbell
    Aerial support provided by
    Christopher Boyer, LightHawk
    Hunter Handsfield, LightHawk
    Additional photography
    Aaron Kunz
    Stock Footage - RevoStock
    Audio post production
    Milt Ritter
    Post Production Support
    Lisa Strube-Kilgore
    Phil Williams
    Chris Maske
    Music
    Lonely Rails
    Written by Seth Warren and C. Andrew Rohrmann. Performed by Seth Warren. Published by Sciencelab.
    Salt Flats
    Written by Miguel D'Oliveira. Published by BBC Production Music.
    Like a Phoenix
    Written by Steve Carter. Published by Chappell Recorded Music Library Ltd.
    Celtic Mist
    Written by Al Lethbridge. Published by Chappell Recorded Music Library Ltd.
    Pistola
    Written by Geoff Levin. Published by ZFC Music.
    Fluttering Leaves
    Written by Daniel Pemberton. Published by Chappell Recorded Music Library Ltd.
    The Couple
    Written by Al Lethbridge. Published by BBC Production Music.
    Halcyon Skies
    Written by Ben Hales and Matt Hales. Published by Chappell Recorded Music Library Ltd.
    The Loner
    Written by Miguel D'Oliveira. Published by BBC Production Music.
    Special Thanks to
    Dustin Bleizeffer
    Shannon Anderson
    LightHawk
    Keith Williams
    Thunder Basin Coal Company
    Leroy Rohde
    Andy Rohrmann
    Tom Lubnau
    Columbia River Pilots
    Aaron Toso
    Courtney Wallace
    Lauri Hennessey

КОМЕНТАРІ • 622

  • @sneedchuckington
    @sneedchuckington 2 роки тому +40

    Why is it that when coal is mined it's "disrupting the ecosystem" but when a hydroelectric dam alters the course of rivers and creates artificial lakes it's just green energy with no downsides?

    • @benthezomboni2701
      @benthezomboni2701 2 роки тому +2

      Because coal damages the nearby eco system. Dams do damage the ecosystem but not as much. Plus when coal is burned it’s extremely bad

    • @sneedchuckington
      @sneedchuckington 2 роки тому +1

      @@benthezomboni2701 "it's extremely bad"
      very compelling argument but still 2nd to "that's a no-no".

    • @mauricio9564
      @mauricio9564 2 роки тому

      @@sneedchuckington It is,coal pollution is estimated to kill 30,000 every year and coal emissions is the highest of all sources of energy in the US.

    • @mauricio9564
      @mauricio9564 2 роки тому +1

      We can replace it very easily also,MIT recently did a study that showed that imposing a tax of 50% per emissions would kill the coal industry in less than 3 years and it would be quickly replaced by natural gas,solar and wind to make up for the loss,coal is old let it die.

    • @gregorymalchuk272
      @gregorymalchuk272 2 роки тому

      @@mauricio9564 Indoor air pollution from the unvented burning of wood and animal dung kills millions of people per year. For such people, even the dirtiest coal fired power station would be a vast improvement.

  • @pairojeans
    @pairojeans 3 роки тому +11

    6:07 "these tankers are going to kill my way of life". Incorrect, these vessels are ships commonly referred to as bulk carriers. Having worked on this kind of ship and carried cargoes such as coal, grain, bauxite, iron ore etc all over the world. They won't be killing anything only accidents with these ships due negligence will kill.

    • @pamguy3534
      @pamguy3534 2 роки тому

    • @TheWizardGamez
      @TheWizardGamez 2 роки тому

      Outside of whales. Ships hit whales a lot. Like a surprising amount

    • @anxiousearth680
      @anxiousearth680 2 роки тому

      @@TheWizardGamez Really? Doesn't the sound repel marine life?

  • @tompalmer5114
    @tompalmer5114 8 років тому +11

    Little girl... What do you mean you didn't do anything wrong? Your parents need to be less ignorant, and make you less ignorant. You have your skis, clothes, trips to the ski area, soccer balls, books,.. all made with energy from coal. Don't be a hypocrite. Asia will get their coal regardless.

  • @TheWizardGamez
    @TheWizardGamez 2 роки тому +3

    So big lesson. Electrify the US rail network(literally should’ve been done decades ago)

    • @normanwells2755
      @normanwells2755 2 роки тому

      If it was economic the rail companies would do it now.

  • @milkwolfcheng359
    @milkwolfcheng359 7 років тому +14

    Can someone explain how come the cargo ships would kill the crabs and salmons?

    • @saskcyclistsnapsondrivers3104
      @saskcyclistsnapsondrivers3104 5 років тому +2

      The scheer volume of ships and the pollution they cause? People don't fish in ports like that do they?

    • @saskcyclistsnapsondrivers3104
      @saskcyclistsnapsondrivers3104 5 років тому +3

      @The Anonymous Sir Backspace oil leaks** oil leeks would be a strain of vegetable.

    • @mrrolandlawrence
      @mrrolandlawrence 3 роки тому +1

      a couple of ways. the bunker fuel they use is basically hot tarmac. the sulphur emissions per bulk carrier is equivalent to 60,000 diesel cars. 2nd ballast water takes water from other parts of the world complete with all the microbes and then deposits it in another ecosystem killing everything. oh yes fun fact, they had to dynamite a channel in the great barrier reef to get the extra draft for big coal ships in australia!

    • @milkwolfcheng359
      @milkwolfcheng359 3 роки тому

      @@mrrolandlawrence Thank you:)

    • @pairojeans
      @pairojeans 3 роки тому +4

      @@mrrolandlawrence you better check your facts, first of as of 1st of January 2020 all ships must use low Sulphur diesel in or near coast or ports which is normal diesel in most cases. Ships which are burning heavy fuel must be fitted with scrubber equipment. Cargo ships are the most environmentally friendly form of transport making less pollution per ton carried than any other, and ships carry two thirds of international trade and goods. All ships must have a ballast water mangament plans and either have exchange ballast water far out in deep ocean and or treat ballast water to kill all microscopic organisms in it, this has been in force since 2017 from the IMO.

  • @GEES44DC
    @GEES44DC 8 років тому +49

    The exhaust from a locomotive is NOTHING compared to what it would be if everything was carried by truck. Argument over.

    • @metaparcel
      @metaparcel 8 років тому +3

      +GEES44DC That makes sense when I think about it.

    • @judgedredd8657
      @judgedredd8657 8 років тому +6

      +GEES44DC exactly, its the most efficient way to move large amounts of material over land

    • @Nibiru2012ishere
      @Nibiru2012ishere 7 років тому +1

      GEES44DC 3,200,000 pounds of coal on 135 car train

    • @GEES44DC
      @GEES44DC 7 років тому +1

      Donn Worry ...

    • @computethisblockhead
      @computethisblockhead 7 років тому +2

      Everything adds up. All emissions are unnecessary and can be avoided by moving to clean energy sources. Argument over!

  • @jjk2one
    @jjk2one 7 років тому +4

    They take the money and dump the trash on you. They also invest in the medical industrial complex.

  • @rockify25
    @rockify25 9 років тому +4

    I really wonder. If this coal terminal port doesn't get built, it will go to Canada with 1970 environmental technology. It seems the US port will be more environmental. However that coal will get burnt regardless if the terminal doesn't get built. It get burn anyway. If we don't build, Canada will ship it with more railway distance. Also trains may emit a lot of emissions, but the emission per ton may be a lot lower than trucks shipping coal. Rail is the way to go.

    • @normanwells2755
      @normanwells2755 2 роки тому

      It did end up going through Alberta and BC to the west coast ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert. It is noted shipping time is shorter due to trains being faster than ships so companies get paid quicker.

  • @pairojeans
    @pairojeans 3 роки тому +4

    19:15 I will no longer be able to ski.
    Skiing is leisure so first world problems not really what this is about.

  • @michaelkuhn3488
    @michaelkuhn3488 3 роки тому +2

    the real problem is that the 5.5 billion$ hardly any of it trickles back into the local economy. the majority of the money goes to the department of defense, as if they didnt have enough money already

    • @8bert9
      @8bert9 2 роки тому

      Yea, 5.5 billion is not even a drop in the bucket anymore. The Gov has been throwing away tax payer money for the last 20 plus years and all of it is borrowed from the future. We are drowning in debt.

  • @carlhorn1791
    @carlhorn1791 8 років тому +11

    +EarthFixMedia turn your lights off sell your car turn your heat off and air .eat grass .

  • @jacobfalk5778
    @jacobfalk5778 8 років тому +27

    so funny how a documentary tries to show it showing both sides but is so one sided. I love how a movement claims to be on the side of science but doesn't follow the scientific method. wonderful how the kid at the end is fully indoctrinated.

    • @charliekk3377
      @charliekk3377 5 років тому +1

      The issue with "climate change" is trying to separate facts from politics.

  • @icconductor
    @icconductor 2 роки тому +1

    When everyone quits complaining how we live, we will all be happy again. The sun doesn't always shine, and the wind doesn't always blow.

  • @lilone23
    @lilone23 3 роки тому +1

    To the lady with the super hard life of watering plants and OMG waiting 4 to 5 minutes on a train to go by "i feel so BAD FOR U!!!!""""" that 4 or 5 minute wait at a train stop means hundreds even thousands of kids ate food today and had decent shoes and clothes on their backs and went on to college and have a home to live in right NOW!!!! Im setting here so emotional about how stupid people are it makes me want to cry i live in hard hit coal country my dad gave me a super good life minning coal on his knees and back for 40 years to keep the lights on in this country, in the WV coal mines and never complained once. He is a happy man he provided such a good life for me and my sisters and now im going in the mines to raise my son right!!! These people complaining don't CARE AT ALL i'm sorry its a way of life where i live too, mining coal it's all we got!!! So While you have to almost die waiting 4 to 5 MINUTES on A TRAIN TO PASS THINK NEXT TIME WHAT THAT TRAIN OF COAL MEANS TO OTHER PEOPLE AND KIDS!!!!!

  • @willcausality
    @willcausality 9 років тому +1

    In a way I'm liberal. It's good to see energy changing to something that isn't so limited. Even huge quantities get used up, eventually. On the other hand, there's a conservative side that says you're not going to get the job done without some work and sacrifice and some people won't be happy. I'm sad to see the jobs go. That's hard, because many of those guys spent some time training and working hard for their position. It's a necessary transition for the long term, but those guys at the plant will need the community's help and support to move to a new age.

    • @vincentperez3442
      @vincentperez3442 2 роки тому

      signaling moron politicians try to make these people losing their jobs feel better they say they can work in a factory making solar panels or windmills. Only thing is we will never have these factories here. You have to move your family to China because it's the only place with the necessary materials to make that stuff.

    • @Bloated_Tony_Danza
      @Bloated_Tony_Danza Рік тому

      Just like those men in the factories. The factories closed down and all they got was low wage, low skill, low respect jobs, heroin addiction, and time in prison.

  • @a4s2reckonwith
    @a4s2reckonwith 8 років тому +2

    If they are worried about diesel particulate matter escaping make the trains tarp up like trucks have to

  • @wayneworthen2685
    @wayneworthen2685 4 роки тому +5

    Bottom line is Asia is going to burn coal and if we export the powder river basin coal to them it will actually help as it is the cleanest coal in the world. And it would create lots of high paying jobs in our country. This article is very biased towards environmentalists, I have been involved in the coal industry in the powder river basin for over 40 years and I do not believe that is presented fairly at all in this piece.

    • @zanecallahan3948
      @zanecallahan3948 2 роки тому

      “High paying jobs and clean burning coal” doesn’t negate the fact that fossil fuels are on there way out. Mountain top removal is a cruel process that destroys land the coal sits under. Coal mining should be done underground.

    • @wayneworthen2685
      @wayneworthen2685 2 роки тому

      @@zanecallahan3948 You need to get out more and quit listening to the crap that is no where close to reality, The mines in Wyoming are great stewards of the land When they are done mining the land is better than when they started. There is an over abundance of coal here that can only be mined from the surface as the overburden is not stable enough to mine underground.

    • @zanecallahan3948
      @zanecallahan3948 2 роки тому

      @@wayneworthen2685 ridiculous. I live right here in Salt Lake City. I get to lay my eyes on the largest Copper mine in the country every day. It’s good for business but an atrocity to the land. Open your eyes bud, the energy industry needs more competition. Removing layer upon layer of earth to reach a fossil fuel isn’t sustainable to communities surrounding it. Mountain top removal is a downright disgrace, mine UNDERGROUND or find a different job, don’t be scared of a little mine explosion. Oh I’m sure they return the land back to the natural way it was formed over millions of millions of years, sure. Top soil and trees is a good gesture i guess 😂

  • @krell2130
    @krell2130 2 роки тому +8

    The biggest shame here, is that poor little boy being named Rachel by his parents.

  • @abhisheksinghasia
    @abhisheksinghasia Рік тому +1

    Is it possible to cover coal while transporting by train racks compulsorily otherwise water bodies by the side of rail lines and villages would be all covered by coal dust. I am surprised that in India around MP and Chhattisgarh the railways are not compulsorily asking the coal transporters to cover the train 🚆 (maal gadi) to cover the coal.
    I am dismayed that water is getting coal layer. Black in color. Though it may reduce the oder but deplete fish 🐠🐟🐠🐟🐠🐟......

  • @JonatanGronoset
    @JonatanGronoset 8 років тому +1

    Fuck this shit, it's the same fucking story on all sides: "this thing is threatening my livelyhood, so it's bad and needs to go!"

  • @kylesmythe8230
    @kylesmythe8230 8 років тому +7

    Coal is an old fashioned energy that should have been done away with years ago. Natural gas is the transition we need to get to renewables.

  • @hothmandon
    @hothmandon 2 місяці тому

    In SimCity 2000, I will no longer use coal power plants.

  • @keithsilva6330
    @keithsilva6330 Рік тому

    Hydro while changing the physical environment and some habitats locally, do not add to Global pollution period. HYDRO has benefits in clean energy, flood protection and control, as well as recreation in many installations. What people need to understand is no One energy source is capable of solving our energy needs... For example Solar power output drops 80 to 90 percent on overcast days and the wind does not always blow in most places... FYI, Portable Inverter-Battery units that come with fold out solar panels, (commonly referred to as Solar Generators) , take many hours to charge by the panels they come with and are finite in stored energy .Solar doesn't work at night. There is no comparison to a engine-driven or (*Fuel Cell 📲) powered generator... Energy Tech is changing, but it's not a next week/ Year thing ... Coal and Oil 🪔 is a component we need to some degree in one form or another. It's pollution reduction that is the challenge...

  • @mohdibrahimmansuri4928
    @mohdibrahimmansuri4928 3 роки тому +1

    Essentially carefulness required to do with it.

  • @KingWilhelm777
    @KingWilhelm777 4 роки тому +2

    Worst documentary I've ever watched. Its filled with satire, and conspiracy theories....

  • @OsbornIOW
    @OsbornIOW Рік тому

    So, Did it get built?

  • @Ka7wyf
    @Ka7wyf 7 років тому +11

    Over fishing ok? Coal equals steel for ships electricity without coal right now yer screwed

    • @jimmccoal2693
      @jimmccoal2693 4 роки тому +1

      @Mr Cabot coal is God. Canadian coal is low sulphur. This is why countries love our high grade coal. Burns hotter and cleaner. I imagine you support Nuclear Power plants. Tou know the ones with spent rods that take a thousand years to be be none radio active. Chernobyl turned our well and the 2 in Japan that is killing the Pacific Ocean. Long live Coal

    • @jimmccoal2693
      @jimmccoal2693 4 роки тому

      @Mr Cabot oh my your butt hurt. In order to make your fancy wind turbines, first off you . Mine it , process it then manufacture it. You need coal and oil and ore. Wow hay. Lol .

    • @Henriburger1
      @Henriburger1 4 роки тому

      @@jimmccoal2693 @Mr Cabot
      How can neither of you support nuclear. Nuclear is the only base load solution for the future we have. BTW you don't have to worry about radioactivity when the "waste" is hundreds of meters underground.

    • @jimmccoal2693
      @jimmccoal2693 4 роки тому +1

      @@Henriburger1 underground yes. Where is the water table . One crack in the underground bunker could contaminate TRILLIONS of liters of water.

    • @Henriburger1
      @Henriburger1 4 роки тому

      @@jimmccoal2693
      They don't put the waste in the water table. They choose the location carefully. Also its not a bunker, the rods are sealed inside clay, concrete and copper casks that are tested to withstand the impact of an airliner hitting them, so they aren't breaking open until the waste is safe. Say they magically did break open, they are surrounded by clay on all sides as that's what is used to back fill the tunnels.

  • @allenbuddy2992
    @allenbuddy2992 7 років тому

    Can Coal be vaped to make heat , and in doing that do you eliminate the pollution or heat .

  • @carlhorn1791
    @carlhorn1791 8 років тому +3

    you should turn your lights off and heat and air ,that will save earth

    • @jimmccoal2693
      @jimmccoal2693 4 роки тому +2

      @Mr Cabot wow glad you could afford to built a new house. Now what about the other 6billion broke people

    • @jimmccoal2693
      @jimmccoal2693 4 роки тому +3

      @Mr Cabot you sound well educated. You should run for PM of canada.

    • @Henriburger1
      @Henriburger1 4 роки тому

      @Mr Cabot
      That's some "Why don't homeless people just buy a house?" logic

    • @Henriburger1
      @Henriburger1 4 роки тому

      Mr Cabot
      Seems like the perspective of someone who has never seen the other 95% of people. Most people don’t live in 400k houses. For some people the price of a solar system is 10 times the price of their house. Even for the people in the US only 20% can theoretically get solar because the rest live in urban areas, like myself. And for many it’s just cheaper to not get solar. If I owned a house it just wouldn’t make sense to buy solar.

    • @jimmccoal2693
      @jimmccoal2693 4 роки тому

      @Mr Cabot so why are you swearing at people who are asking questions or debating. No need to be hostile. As for forcing people to go solar , forcing is what a country run buy a dictator does. Oh wait..

  • @BicycleHoboo
    @BicycleHoboo 4 роки тому +1

    Trump said we have clean coal.

  • @PedroMarco94
    @PedroMarco94 9 років тому +2

    This is bullshit. The complainings related to the coal trains are just... too much

  • @voicewithinthevoid
    @voicewithinthevoid Рік тому

    You need coal to make steel by turning coal into coke. So should we stop using steel? And if the coal runs out then we will stop using steel.

    • @WAL_DC-6B
      @WAL_DC-6B Рік тому

      Not all steel is produced using coke. There are electric arc furnaces that do the same.

  • @divisioneight
    @divisioneight 7 років тому +3

    Can someone explain what caused the immense climate change that happened to the Earth a mere 15,000 years ago when glaciers pushes south from Arctic regions as far south as the upper midwest of America?

    • @Whiskeybuisness
      @Whiskeybuisness 7 років тому +1

      I think the left call it "Global Warming"....LMAO
      But if you think about it, the world has been in a steady process of warming since the time of the great glaciers in North America.

    • @Railfan9743
      @Railfan9743 5 років тому +1

      divisioneight YOU DON’T KNOW THAT EARTH’S ROTATION SHIFTS? The 23.5 degrees tilt changes slightly and earth switches from ice age to now every 70 million years.

    • @Railfan9743
      @Railfan9743 5 років тому +1

      Whiskeybuisness YOU DON’T KNOW THAT EARTH’S ROTATION SHIFTS? The 23.5 degrees tilt changes slightly and earth switches from ice age to now every 70 million years.

    • @normanwells2755
      @normanwells2755 2 роки тому

      Apparently, judging by the dearth of answers to your question, they don't want to talk about that.

  • @miner269
    @miner269 8 років тому +1

    Federal law requires mines to reclaim one acre for ever acre mined.

    • @saskcyclistsnapsondrivers3104
      @saskcyclistsnapsondrivers3104 5 років тому +1

      Doesnt mean it happens

    • @pairojeans
      @pairojeans 3 роки тому

      @@saskcyclistsnapsondrivers3104 but what proof do you have that it doesn't, baseless sound byte!

    • @TheWizardGamez
      @TheWizardGamez 2 роки тому

      @@saskcyclistsnapsondrivers3104 and when it doesn’t happen, you have a lawsuit and possible jail time. And no one wants to go to jail or lose money pointlessly

  • @lydiacabrera6251
    @lydiacabrera6251 4 роки тому +1

    Filling up a train car of coal dust does it require wearing a mask?

  • @carlhorn1791
    @carlhorn1791 8 років тому +9

    earth heals itself

  • @pekde
    @pekde Рік тому

    Mining lithium and all rare materials for electric cars is much worse for environment.

  • @Eli_J_G
    @Eli_J_G 2 роки тому

    I have some small issues. The environmentalists act like the world is going to end in the next year, and if this video was made in 2012-2013, and it is currently 2022, then why hasn't the world ended yet?

  • @SithSereyPheap1
    @SithSereyPheap1 8 років тому +1

    LEAVE NATURE UNDISTURBED !

  • @adventureswithchristian6967

    Dig the coal again

  • @timbarnes2259
    @timbarnes2259 Рік тому

    Clean Up the diesels and cover the wagons, use green energy not coal..

  • @2000Betelgeuse
    @2000Betelgeuse 6 років тому +4

    Coal is dying and that is a good thing, as for the people, well learn new trades, adapt instead of just winning

    • @dennytuma3878
      @dennytuma3878 5 років тому

      hard to win when you just lost your job

    • @erikjohnson2976
      @erikjohnson2976 5 років тому

      @@dennytuma3878 Adapt or die. People can retrain to support renewable energy production; they just choose to hold on to the past and they suffer as a result. I empathize with their loss of a job supporting a dying way of life, but I offer no sympathies for their willingness to be victims and unwillingness to adopting to new technologies and job requirements.

  • @Axiarus
    @Axiarus 8 місяців тому

    "As the U.S. economy continues to struggle" Welcome to today.

  • @yinglee6808
    @yinglee6808 3 роки тому

    coal/charcoal briquetting machine: www.briquettesplant.com/products/briquette-machinery.html?lylt

  • @scotabot7826
    @scotabot7826 5 місяців тому

    19:30 The Greta of 10 tears ago, and she still went skiing every year!!

  • @periclod1877
    @periclod1877 4 роки тому +1

    where my tech boys at?

  • @TempoDrift1480
    @TempoDrift1480 2 роки тому

    This is dumb. If you don't want to be involved with the mining, transport and utility of coal then go build a shelter in the woods and eat bugs and snakes. Do it close to water because you're not using any kind of container unless you carve it from wood with a stone. Skin you a buffalo for clothing and blankets because you're not using any synthetic materials either. If you decide to go block traffic don't think you're using paper and markers to make signs either. Don't even think about trying to video or post it. If someone travels to you by bike or automobile you are not to communicate with that person and you are not to accept any supplies unless they arrive by wild Buffalo and made whatever they bring of natural materials. Be prepared to trade something you made out of trees or dead fish because you are not to use any form of legal tender. Do you get it yet or shall I continue?

  • @drakonidesthevigilant5155
    @drakonidesthevigilant5155 4 роки тому

    When was it discovered that coal has its origin in the plant world?

    • @normanwells2755
      @normanwells2755 2 роки тому

      You'd figure the vegans would be ecstatic about it.

  • @TheSpasmer
    @TheSpasmer 7 років тому +4

    Funding for this documentary was provided by lobbyists you should know.

  • @nate9221
    @nate9221 2 роки тому +1

    We need more children standing up and teaching us how to run the world because children are really smart

  • @firefly3333
    @firefly3333 Рік тому

    It was a good documentary, until the focus shifted to a 12 year old being manipulated and brainwashed, and used as a tool to further their parents interests. Stop using your children as mascots for your cause. You’re not letting them make fair and rational exhibitions when they only hear one side of the story. I don’t care about the cause, children shouldn’t be a part of it, and you’re a bad person if you use your children in that way.

  • @paulcookies
    @paulcookies 8 років тому +1

    Drax Power Station, England.

    • @pairojeans
      @pairojeans 3 роки тому

      Is almost entirely powered by biomass imported partly from Canada and America

  • @D1KHEAD808
    @D1KHEAD808 5 років тому

    So how do we regulate volcano emissions?

    • @577buttfan
      @577buttfan 2 роки тому

      OR back to nuclear or volcano power.

  • @carlhorn1791
    @carlhorn1791 8 років тому +7

    freeze in the dark

  • @jareds2able
    @jareds2able 9 років тому +4

    and I love the air quality test on the bride on coal trains with 0 coal trains passing lol

  • @RonnieNolanRaharjo
    @RonnieNolanRaharjo 5 років тому +1

    Thank you, documentary. I agree with what you're presenting 100%! Without coal there would be no climate change, no drought and no famines. All hunger would end and freak weather events and natural disasters would cease to exist forever. As we all know, famines, droughts, floods, heat waves and other climatic disasters never happened before the accursed industrial revolution.
    Now, we have to start paying our tithes to the authorities so they can fix the climate. And we have to keep paying it for as long as it takes until the climate stops changing. This is for the good of the planet of course! The planet is too weak to exist without us.
    We've poisoned this planet with carbon dioxide. As any educated person would know, carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant that all plants hate. We need to keep the earth green by removing all carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Only then will we have peace!

  • @climbers1376
    @climbers1376 3 роки тому

    bravo

  • @douglasscrandall8930
    @douglasscrandall8930 Рік тому

    You are just looking for anyone or anything to blame other than the truth about what is happening on earth. The truth is within you, face it ,Stand with Jesus spread the good news or waste your life time on "The Things Of The World. Take time to get to know your creator. You'll be filled with joy instead of useless fear... Grace 🙏 to you..

    • @WAL_DC-6B
      @WAL_DC-6B Рік тому

      The earth was here before man and will be here long after man is gone.

  • @kvn8907
    @kvn8907 7 років тому

    Very fair. I like how it accurately considers both sides to the issue.

  • @thuaoanh1511
    @thuaoanh1511 2 роки тому

    16:50-18:30

  • @paulcookies
    @paulcookies 8 років тому +2

    I travelled half-way around the world to earn a living. Never been back home since 1996.

  • @browhy1382
    @browhy1382 3 роки тому

    I was forced to watch this for school it’s stupid

  • @ggem8125
    @ggem8125 3 роки тому

    Does the fish coughs get to market by bicycle complete hypocrisy

  • @OnlyTheEd
    @OnlyTheEd 9 років тому +2

    Environmental impact should have been addressed 100 years ago or more. They foresaw a future use when they designed and built coal fired steam-powered locomotives and power plants. Since it has begun being used more than 100 years ago, we can't NOT use coal for energy usage. I am not a scientist, nor do I obtain any College/University degrees, But I see it as if you start a trend, and it catches on, why stop people from doing this? Just my humble opinion. Peace.

    • @machineshopworkantiquemach6370
      @machineshopworkantiquemach6370 9 років тому

      +OnlyTheEd
      i live in a coal mining town next to the main lift they use for the miners. I work in the mine and have no problems with the blasting by the way this is coming from a man who's ancestors came over in the 1700's and mined coal in pennsylvania and my family has found the money good and think too i've worked since i was 18 and I'm 40 and i have no black lung or health problems. when you see those stacks at the plants thats not smoke that's steam they have layers of scrubbers to clean the air and that cleans it to the point where it's cleaner than a wood fire so why don't you march your liberal ass to the white house and complain about something that doesn't concern my job and many other people's jobs.

    • @OnlyTheEd
      @OnlyTheEd 9 років тому

      Read my comment AGAIN. Not one word from me is against anyone. So YOU march your liberal ass to a school and learn to read.

    • @machineshopworkantiquemach6370
      @machineshopworkantiquemach6370 9 років тому +1

      +OnlyTheEd ah, touché sorry really long day at work guys rallying outside of mine to try to stop us from mining i was trying to find a non biased video explaining coal mining to liberals but then i wandered and looked through comments half read yours and took it out on someone I don't know again sorry.

    • @OnlyTheEd
      @OnlyTheEd 9 років тому

      +military nut 101 Thumbs up on correcting. Peace.

  • @keithgreer7709
    @keithgreer7709 4 роки тому

    Like it says in the Bible the rich man will destroy the Earth

    • @Jemalacane0
      @Jemalacane0 3 роки тому

      Ah, the regressive book of bullshit fairy tales.

  • @GaaaageE
    @GaaaageE 4 роки тому

    That poor kid has been indoctrinated and is a pawn. Shameful

  • @shellyloggins8702
    @shellyloggins8702 8 років тому +1

    😊😊 video video train 😊😊

  • @redxxxxxxx
    @redxxxxxxx 4 роки тому

    Coal powers your computer,and phone .If we don't use coal you would not be able to watch this video,then complain about coal.

    • @WiscoWrestler
      @WiscoWrestler 4 роки тому

      Coal only produces 25% of the power in the U.S. your point is undeniably untrue

  • @RexoPK
    @RexoPK 9 років тому +1

    HAI

  • @2121runescape
    @2121runescape 9 років тому +25

    Fossil fuels is amazing! go coal!

    • @Jemalacane0
      @Jemalacane0 9 років тому +2

      Nuclear for the win.

    • @alexander10000000
      @alexander10000000 9 років тому +1

      I agree, nuclear for the win.

    • @iloveRUSSIAAA
      @iloveRUSSIAAA 9 років тому

      coolengineer Whatever, boilers rock!

    • @Jemalacane0
      @Jemalacane0 9 років тому

      Cessna 182a
      A lightwater reactor is a boiler.

    • @alexander10000000
      @alexander10000000 9 років тому

      Cessna 182a Indeed, in fact I am studying about boilers at my college this semester.

  • @donaldlee1044
    @donaldlee1044 9 років тому +1

    Asia and all the other developing countries are going to burn coal regardless. So why don't we try to recoup the trade deficit by exporting coal.

  • @philipmcnill4858
    @philipmcnill4858 4 роки тому

    And everything ends here ua-cam.com/video/fMJuUQFxy20/v-deo.html

  • @pattyanderson7439
    @pattyanderson7439 2 роки тому

    When we were hungry he eat my manaize sandwich I thought we were friends he gives me his middle finger

  • @live4lifefun779
    @live4lifefun779 7 років тому +1

    Thanks for this video

  • @arthurwatt4144
    @arthurwatt4144 4 роки тому

    No such thing as clean coal I'm sorry

  • @paulbryan6716
    @paulbryan6716 5 років тому

    1 word: BIOMASS.

    • @Henriburger1
      @Henriburger1 4 роки тому +1

      God no please I beg you anything else. Biomass is the deadliest energy source besides coal, and its insane that it counts as "renewable". Biomass should be abandoned for everything but waste disposal.

  • @carlhorn1791
    @carlhorn1791 8 років тому

    o bambam job cutts

  • @pamallinder3287
    @pamallinder3287 Рік тому

    But, but and but

  • @no_more_free_nicks
    @no_more_free_nicks 2 роки тому

    who cares?

  • @griffon129
    @griffon129 9 років тому +1

    lol

  • @Tuppoo94
    @Tuppoo94 6 років тому

    19:05 That guy's smartphone was most likely charged with coal power. Also, it's pretty suspicious to bring kids into event like this.

  • @ronaldpiper4812
    @ronaldpiper4812 6 років тому

    Put coal and oil on rails

  • @tomking1890
    @tomking1890 3 роки тому

    This old. Coal is done.

  • @carlhorn1791
    @carlhorn1791 8 років тому

    butt that kid is eating food from where , with lights.

  • @Ka7wyf
    @Ka7wyf 8 років тому +1

    coal is great! esp wyoming clean coal. little kid does not realize seasons can differ and if u shut off all coal fired plants now in 2016 america could not be supported with current power grid. so bye lights, ac, and to charge your electric cars, etc. people are getting dumber.

    • @computethisblockhead
      @computethisblockhead 7 років тому

      Ever heard of renewable energy? Its available and perfectly viable!

    • @NikolaiBeier
      @NikolaiBeier 5 років тому

      The power plants in USA are reducing their use of coal. Electricity gets produced from other fuel and from harvesting renewables. Coal gets less and less important, as the years go by.
      Have a look at www.utilitydive.com/news/us-on-pace-for-record-coal-retirements-in-2018-ieefa-finds/540931/ and www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=37692

  • @577buttfan
    @577buttfan 2 роки тому

    Coal would have been fine there is 5 billion too many people in this world.

  • @gugeyewalker
    @gugeyewalker 8 років тому +33

    Umm there is something wrong with this documentary - simply shipping coal by train, barge and ship is not a big deal compared to actually burning it or shipping it by truck! It seems like the documentary is tryin REALLY HARD to make this a concern.

    • @saskcyclistsnapsondrivers3104
      @saskcyclistsnapsondrivers3104 5 років тому +3

      Yea but burning it is becoming less common in NA and so the transport is the concern

    • @TheWizardGamez
      @TheWizardGamez 2 роки тому

      @@saskcyclistsnapsondrivers3104 the coal seams in Wyoming are among the lowest sulfur content in the world. It is cheap and he best of the worst. And while I think about that more of the world should move towards greener pastures it’s more of a use coal and have everyone on electricity or install a few wind turbines and barely be able to supply electricity. It’s like the question between buying 10 diesel buses(where there are none) or buy 7 electric busses. The answer in the end is trams

  • @carlhorn1791
    @carlhorn1791 8 років тому +12

    you used that kid.

    • @aaronwilton8738
      @aaronwilton8738 3 роки тому +1

      That little boy is nothing but a prop

    • @pairojeans
      @pairojeans 3 роки тому +2

      Parents brainwashed kid with their own beliefs and ideology.

    • @wordlife-d8z
      @wordlife-d8z 2 роки тому +1

      @@pairojeans climatw change is fake

    • @wolflexz
      @wolflexz 2 роки тому +1

      @@wordlife-d8z lol

  • @allamakee1397
    @allamakee1397 8 років тому +36

    I watched this video in a 1907 Iowa farm house heated with coal. It's a warm 72 degrees as I type. One of my videos on UA-cam shows my vintage 1940's coal stove being reloaded. My cost of heating is one half that of propane. No smoke, no risk of a chimney fire - just a pure clean burning blue flame. Here we raise cattle, hogs & corn. My environmental foot print is no bigger than a save the earth greenie type hand washing out their baby's cotton dippers. However I must admit my two Draft horses can blast out a lot of methane when pulling a heavy load. Whoa Nellie !

    • @dennytuma3878
      @dennytuma3878 5 років тому

      @Mr Cabot don't sound stupid to me

    • @grrr6637
      @grrr6637 5 років тому +2

      Mr Cabot violating the constitution? I bet you want to get rid of my right to own a gun. Stfu. From my cold dead hands you Marxist pos.

    • @gaprisun9465
      @gaprisun9465 5 років тому +5

      @Mr Cabot nuclear, dirty? You really have no idea what your on about.

    • @masterbower6083
      @masterbower6083 5 років тому

      @Mr Cabot the amount of precautions that are put into Nuclear waste is one of the greatest things that is take care of. The company my father works for test the concrete containers that they use and even if one of his measurement is of by a tenth of a thousands he will be fired without question. Now this video shows you how it is properly done, not a news channel.
      ua-cam.com/video/mILvWNgggfU/v-deo.html

    • @gaprisun9465
      @gaprisun9465 5 років тому +1

      @Mr Cabot sorry bud, i ain't lying because unlike some people i look at both sides of the coin when it comes to reports and statistics.

  • @jareds2able
    @jareds2able 9 років тому +7

    I'm a bnsf train conductor working in gillette wyoming. clean air and beautiful livestock and a local economy that country's would go to war for. average income is 86000 dollars. I grew up in California and have never seen a more ass backwards place.

    • @SP4449BN9444
      @SP4449BN9444 8 років тому +2

      +Jared S I too am from Wyoming. Our state economy is amazing, if other states would replicate it, we wouldn't be in a shitty situation. I am planning on working for BNSF next year because its such a good job and great benefits from what it sounds like.

    • @jareds2able
      @jareds2able 8 років тому +3

      SP4449BN9444​ it's the best benifits you can get pretty much. Best retirement. Due to the senority system it will be periods of work and then not till you get a few years under your belt but when you can hold good you can make well over 100k a year. Best day for me so far was a 1000 dollars for 4 hours of work. So it is a solid career choice.

    • @SP4449BN9444
      @SP4449BN9444 8 років тому +2

      Jared S I hope to be working in Lincoln, NE in the fall? But i doubt i get to do training there. Is Lincoln NE a good area or one of the top places to work for BNSF?

    • @jareds2able
      @jareds2able 8 років тому +2

      +SP4449BN9444 Lincoln ne is good. all the locations make out pretty good. Alliance ne is good because no one wants to work there lol I had a class in McCook ne that cancelled then I got in a class in gillette wyoming. kind of ridiculous to get hired on but we'll worth the effort. I'm hoping to get in an engineer class asap and then I will spend a few years working in alliance since engineers can get forced to work there.

  • @TheDustysix
    @TheDustysix 2 роки тому +4

    I remember when the climate freaks were saying we will freeze to death from global cooling. 70's-80's.

    • @wordlife-d8z
      @wordlife-d8z 2 роки тому

      Its fake

    • @biteme9486
      @biteme9486 2 роки тому

      youre confusing climate with weather. Climate change can create massive cold snaps due to jet stream weakening

    • @TheDustysix
      @TheDustysix 2 роки тому

      @@biteme9486 Tell me, did the Mammoth's sweat to death? Or freeze to death?

    • @biteme9486
      @biteme9486 2 роки тому

      @@TheDustysix the current hypotheses is that they were hunted by humans and the melting of the glaciers destroyed a lot of the plant life they ate

    • @TheDustysix
      @TheDustysix 2 роки тому

      @@biteme9486 And the planet swapped poles too.

  • @tsunderelava2168
    @tsunderelava2168 4 роки тому +3

    I want them for christmas

  • @Jemalacane0
    @Jemalacane0 6 років тому +6

    Nuclear, gas, and renewables, please.

    • @Jemalacane0
      @Jemalacane0 4 роки тому +1

      @Yankee Gohome It's better and cheaper to use natural gas directly instead of electricity from natural gas-fired generation. Use a gas stove, gas water heater, gas heater, and gas clothes dryer instead of electric versions of those appliances powered by natural gas power plants.

  • @chrisransdell8110
    @chrisransdell8110 8 років тому +48

    So frustrating to watch the start of this film. The amount of environmental damage done by moving coal around on ships or trains is minimal. If coal being moved around was a clear and present danger, vast swaths of the North Eastern US would have easy to see differences in health or environment outcomes. The damaging part is mostly in the burning of coal and it clearly has serious pollution issues (even if you discredit climate change). Unfortunately, for now, the Chinese do not have an accessible alternative though they will work at getting off coal as quickly as they can. For now, they will buy LOTS of coal and by blocking the building of these export terminals, that money will go elsewhere and yet the same amount of coal will still be burned in the coming years.

    • @Nibiru2012ishere
      @Nibiru2012ishere 7 років тому +2

      Chris Ransdell the co2 emissions? Plants love co2 and without co2 you have no oxygen

    • @GLee-ub7nu
      @GLee-ub7nu 7 років тому +2

      Coal ash is responsible for 70% of U.S. water pollution in American waterways

    • @GLee-ub7nu
      @GLee-ub7nu 7 років тому +2

      Coal ash causes 70% of water pollution in U.S. waterways

    • @jammer6524
      @jammer6524 5 років тому +2

      @@Nibiru2012ishere Plants to make Oxygen from co2. Plants make Oxygen from the O in H2O

    • @heydaddy2471
      @heydaddy2471 5 років тому +4

      Mining coal is even more devastating than burning, I live near coal mine, and the whole areas where there is coal mine there is no drinkable water, especially when it rain the water passing through mine will go through river killing fish, and did you know it even start burning coal when it rain which won't stop fire over years of years has passed,

  • @zekeysmos88
    @zekeysmos88 4 роки тому +3

    Lady at the 11:35 mark is right, WE DONT CARE! lmao we do have speed regulations as well and maybe 10mph is the fastest we can go thru that area. Also, I'm curious on what was there first the tracks or her????

  • @nicholasadams2374
    @nicholasadams2374 4 роки тому +4

    15:30 - Shareem Allen. Showing how to lie with a straight face to protect your job.

    • @lydiacabrera6251
      @lydiacabrera6251 4 роки тому +1

      It’s microscopic how can u see it! Hope u have life insurance Shareem Allen.

    • @pairojeans
      @pairojeans 3 роки тому +1

      @@lydiacabrera6251 my brother has been driving coal traims for over 30 years.and is fine, my uncle.was cool miner for 42 years he is now 90 years old and perfectly fit so what's your problem? The guy is just doing his job!

  • @ukanduet3209
    @ukanduet3209 5 років тому +2

    The biggest problem is that we are growing the world population at a rate of 1 billion people every 12 years. Supporting this type of growth is going to be very difficult, and probably impossible without the use of fossil fuels.

  • @stnicholas54
    @stnicholas54 4 роки тому +2

    I journeyed across this Salish Sea in 2009 when I took a ferry from Vancouver to Vancouver Island. Eventually got to Tofino on Vancouver Island. There was a lot of lumber washed up on Tofino beach and that's where I had my one and only glimpse at the Pacific Ocean.

  • @kimlibera663
    @kimlibera663 5 років тому +3

    Coal is not particularly clean but can be made cleaner. It is an effective heater. It does not produce famine or flood.

    • @pekde
      @pekde Рік тому

      The most efficient after uranium. In Finland this does not cause any problems to environment. The produktion is extremely clean. And the efficiency is the world's best: 95 %.

    • @kimlibera663
      @kimlibera663 Рік тому

      If you have anthracite-it's clean, if you have scrubbing it is clean. Still the best energy efficiency.@@pekde

  • @ryanehlis426
    @ryanehlis426 5 років тому +1

    Go Trump! Yes coal!