Green Options » clean coal carolers http://greenoptions.com/tag/clean-coal-carolers Posts tagged 'clean coal carolers' Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:00:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Clean Coal Carolers Defeated By Environmentalists http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/13/clean-coal-carolers-defeated-by-environmentalists/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/13/clean-coal-carolers-defeated-by-environmentalists/#comments Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:00:02 +0000 Taylor Shelton http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/12/13/clean-coal-carolers-defeated-by-environmentalists/ While the biggest news out of the energy and environmental world this week may have been a competition between the UN conference in Poznan, or perhaps the planned appointments of President-elect Obama’s environmental team or any other relevant news, the funniest news had a hands-down winner. That was, most certainly, the strange and sudden appearance of the ‘Clean Coal Carolers’ - an industry sponsored Flash animation of pieces of coal, dressed in warm hats and scarves, singing adaptations of traditional Christmas tunes. Only these songs were remixed to tout the brilliance and necessity of coal in American life.

On Friday, however, the Clean Coal Carolers ceased to exist. Thanks to an overwhelming voice of discontent with the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity’s (ACCCE) marketing ploy, the cute little lumps of coal were retired just about as fast as they popped up. The page once reserved for the carolers (http://www.americaspower.org/carolers) now redirects to a post on the ACCCE blog, lamenting that it was “time for them to head home for the holidays.” From the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC to the pages of environmental blogs across the net, the Clean Coal Carolers were ridiculed into nonexistence.


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