It’s funny he says this when over 40% of electricity generation in the US is from natural gas and US power companies are trying to retire old coal plants and the government is making them stay open
Seal of the state of Virginia. The Roman goddess Virtus wearing a blue outfit that leaves her left breast exposed holding a spear and a sheathed sword. One leg stands on the body of a prone man with a crown laying beside him. Virginia is written at the above them and Sic Semper Tyrannis is beneath them. Red flowers form a ring around the edge of the seal.
Mood today:
This calcium sulfate has seen some things
Sic semper tyrannis
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This is especially funny because I am short but both my kids are tall for their age
Thank you!
There’s so much conflicting advice out there and I’m to the “fuck it” phase of caring
Trying to make “stay-at-home mom” sound like a positive on my CV 🫠
*Mining ban was for the Superior National Forest near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and the site is within the Border Waters Watershed
Someone please correct me if I’m still wrong
Ah gotcha. I don’t know much about the area so I wasn’t sure which was correct.
That’s great! It’s so often overlooked and I think we are going to see a lot more push back if things keep going like this. At least maybe future generations can understand you actually have to work for approval from the public
Well that’s… actually not surprising at all
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Btw An environmental group is suing over the “rare earth” project with no rare earth resources getting permits from DOI
www.mining.com/environmenta...
Ugh messed up my threading
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We currently have the DOI approving permits in 20 days! Some with little evidence that they can even mine what they say they can *cough* Colosseum *cough*. And Congress overturning the mining ban in the Boundary Waters right now is not really helpful. People hate that project.
If a company does not have the support of the locals, it can be very difficult and expensive to try to keep it going. One of the ways to get buy in is to maintain high environmental and social performance standards. The people need to believe you aren’t just gonna go in and fuck everything up.
I have been thinking about this lately, so it’s nice to see an article about how fast tracking mineral projects in the US may end up actually slowing or stopping projects all together as mining companies risk their “social license to operate”
www.mining.com/fast-trackin...
Folks who go to (academic) conferences more than I do:
What do you do with free items that you get or that you pick up at exhibitor booths? Do you consider sustainability/what you will do with the item when you no longer need it in your choice of whether to pick something up or not?
I think this pretty much every day, so you are not alone
Pelvic floor physical therapy was the only thing that actually helped mine
We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!
Omg Dave! That sounds horrible
At least dinner was tasty
Thanks!
It’s looking a little better this morning so I think I got lucky
Oh no! That sounds terrible! Hope they heal quickly!
The one time I wished I saved my old low rise pants from the early 2000s 🤣
