RK ARCHIVE - What's Wrong With This Picture?

This is a challenge, so try to figure it out before checking the answer on the flip...
NOTHING!!!!

In fact, it's beautiful. Wonderful. Looks like a great place to visit. Perhaps even to live.

You'd never guess from the wonderful scene, but this is part of an ad for... Dominion. Here's the whole PDF, which includes 7, um, factoids, that make it sound like the Wise County coal project is the most greatest, coolest, bestest thing ever.

Yep, our favorite global polluting corporation who favors dirt cheap dirty coal apparently loves pretty pictures. Problem is, the top picture is really a BEFORE shot. Below is the AFTER version. After Dominion and the coal miners have had a go at it, it's not going to be a place I'd like to visit, much less live.

This couldn't be another case of a major polluter greenwashing the public, could it?

Comments

Last chance to cash in on polluting (TheGreenMiles - 2/28/2008 12:46:20 PM)

Dominion knows this plant is their last chance to lock in coal production before Congress passes a bill putting a price on greenhouse gas pollution (this year or next). They're pulling out all the stops. But it's not too late for Gov. Kaine to do the right thing and stop this plant.

And don't forget to pick up your Dominion greenwashing schwag!

wait a minute (heywaitaminute - 2/28/2008 6:31:20 PM)

I am not defending Dominion but the before photo is Powell Valley in Wise County and it is mostly shale and limestone, no coal, the next photo is on Little Black Mountain, to the west and out of sight of the first photo. Powell Valley, except for a state prison in the distance not shown in this photo, is still intact. No need to make a claim you cannot back up. But the lesson is the same: Will the view from High Knob across Powell Valley be as visible with a coal fired plant 12 air miles to the east? Dominion's wind pattern studies indicate that the primary wind current from the power plant will circle NW in a broad sweep over Wise County, Dickenson, and Buchanan before it lines out toward the northern part of Va across the Shenandoah Valley or another secondary route will be southern West Va, then turn east again toward NOVA.

My apologies (Eric - 2/28/2008 6:53:15 PM)

I should have been more clear - the two photos are not actual before and after photos. The after photo is meant only as an example. It wasn't meant to be literal (especially since the Wise coal plant hasn't been built yet), but more of a representation of a fraction of the destruction will happen in the area if coal power comes.

thanks for clearing that up (heywaitaminute - 2/28/2008 7:48:51 PM)

I understand, you never want to give your opponent the high ground by saying something that cannot be backed up, I am sure they would have used your example against plant opponents had you not clarified.

Fairfax BOS vindicated? (Teddy - 2/28/2008 8:16:55 PM)

"Dominion's wind pattern studies indicate that the primary wind current from the power plant will circle NW in a broad sweep over Wise County, Dickenson, and Buchanan before it lines out toward the northern part of Va" ...
it sounds as though Fairfax County Board of Supervisor's aborted attempt to petition against the Wise County power plant did have a rationale after all.