Editor's Notebook: I love coal, best when it’s kept in the ground
By
Matt Winters
The Daily Astorian
March 04, 2011
The simple fact is that by digging up coal and burning it, we are undoing the natural carbon sequestration that took the planet 25 million years to accomplish – or much longer, when you count all the coal beds that are older than those in the Powder River Basin. What we are doing is awesomely self-destructive.
News that Australians are thinking of exporting up to 60 million tons of Wyoming and Montana coal to China each year through the Port of Longview stirs complicated feelings.
