I remembered an earlier editorial from John Miller and was surprised that he would point out that these development plans are “insensitive to the environment”–no, he didn’t, as usual, that’s just your comment.

I see here he’s listed as editor of wvnews, which puts out two or three long articles a week about the wonders of the coming Appalachian Storage Hub, with never any mention of the downside, either environmental or health or property rights … often, as with this one, taking the slant that we need cooperation rather than competition so we can have this marvelous development, as though bickering between officials of different localities fighting for the goodies is the prospective threat to this wonderfulness (and not the possibility of people of the various localities working together to defend the Ohio River and our homes from this assault).

This is propaganda, nothing more, and it’s legal. You can run newspapers and TV channels in the US that deliberately mislead viewers on behalf of various interests with no repercussions. The result is what we see today, a situation likely to be described by future generations, if any survive in civilized form, as a time of near universal madness, a religious cult that led the world into destruction (the religion being growth, capitalism, consumerism, the notion that humans own nature, rather than being a part of it).

Mary Wildfire, Roane County, WV