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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015

Millions of tons of toxic coal ash are piled at power plants across the nation

Author:     David Zucchino
Source:     ArcaMax/Los Angeles Times
Publication Date:     Feb 3, 2015
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Stephan:   Coal ash mountains, Nuclear waste pools and tanks. All of it illustrates the failure of government regulatory agencies to effective oversee the corporations they are supposed to regulate. Why has this happened? Guess.
Millions of tons of toxic coal ash are piled at power plants across the nation

Barbara and Major Wood on January 26, 2015, at their home near a clay mine pit in Lee County, N.C., that Duke Energy wants to fill with eight tons of coal ash. The Wood family and hundreds of other local residents have protested a proposal by Duke to dump coal ash waste in the rural county in central North Carolina. Credit: David Zucchino/Los Angeles Times/TNS

COLON, N.C. — After a massive coal ash spill coated the Dan River in North Carolina with 70 miles of toxic gunk a year ago, state lawmakers required coal ash stored at four Duke Energy plants in North Carolina to be moved to safer locations.

Now tons of coal ash may end up across the road from Joe Bray’s tidy little home and vegetable garden in the piney woods of central North Carolina.

“It’s going to pollute this whole area, I guarantee you,” Bray, a mustachioed glass blower, said of Duke Energy’s plan to dump up to 8 […]

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1 Comment

  1. colby chester on Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 5:21 pm

    Yet another report confirming the Italian adage, “The Mother of Stupidity is always pregnant!”
    It’s time to re-read Thomas Berry’s work, especially his essay, “The Dream of The Earth.”
    Or, to paraphrase Descartes, “We presume, therefore we are.”