The West Virginia Rising Coalition said it planned to stage a nonviolent protest at the Grant Town Coal Waste Power Plant on Saturday, April 9, calling it “The Coal Baron Blockade.” The Times West Virginian reported that 16 protesters had been arrested. Mr. Manchin made nearly $ 492,000 in business income from Enersystems Inc., a company based in Fairmont, West Virginia, according to a 2020 disclosure filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. There is no evidence that this violates the law. The Independent contacted Senator Manchin’s office for comment. The police remove people who are tied together with chains during protest against Senator Joe Manchin as they exclude Grant Town Waste Power Plant in Grant Town West Virginia (REUTERS) Enersystems, run by Sen. Joseph Manchin IV’s son, supplies gas to the Grant Town Power Plant. “Gob” – meaning “asphalt waste” – is a waste of coal and more inefficient than coal, the dirtiest of fossil fuels. Democrat Manchin’s opposition to President Joe Biden’s 10-year $ 2 trillion spending package, which includes a series of measures to address the climate crisis, condemned the proposal in the US Senate with 50-50, where no Republican is expected to cross party lines. support it. Mr Manchin said the plan, which had already been approved by parliament, would increase inflation and deepen deficits. The West Virginia Coalition claims that in his previous role as Governor of West Virginia, Mr. Manchin maintained the Grant Town coal plant and increased the state’s share of the nation’s poorest people. “Mancin is part of a system that has never served any West Virginia residents,” Blake Thomas, a West Virginia member of the Environmental Coalition, told the Independent. “It can not continue. That is what we are fighting against. “ Maria Gunnoe, a Cherokee native and descendant of a miner from West Virginia, also said: “Joe Manchin spent his career making a very lucrative life from the back of the people of West Virginia while talking about how resilient we are. The Grant Town Power Plant in West Virginia (Kidus Girma) “The people of West Virginia are tired of fighting just to see others prosper. “We deserve opportunities to build a future that our children can be proud of.” The latest warning from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the global authority on climate change, says that the world has less than three years to reverse its trend towards the world’s carbon emissions. He noted that “immediate and profound” emissions cuts need to be made in every sector of society – eliminating the fossil fuels leading to the crisis and boosting clean energy such as wind and solar, along with broader electricity and improved energy efficiency.
