Everything the EPA Never Wanted You To Know About Ash Toxins
By Susie Madrak Tuesday Dec 30, 2008 1:00pmWell, my goodness. It looks as though the people in the path of that massive ash spill are going to be, um, immunologically challenged!
Yes, despite offical assurances, it turns out there's all kinds of nasty stuff in the sludge. And surprise, surprise - the EPA knew, because they'd already released a study:
The risk assessment examined 181 coal combustion waste disposal sites throughout the country and found that unlined coal ash waste ponds pose a cancer risk 900 times above what the government considers "acceptable." The report also found that coal ash disposal sites release toxic chemicals and metals such as arsenic, lead, boron, selenium, cadmium, thallium, and other pollutants at levels that endanger human health and the environment.
"Clean" coal, huh?
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still, that's a big pile of sh*t no one should have to live in or around.
Clean-up? Sure, that'll get done correctly...
It's a big pile of shit that shouldn't exist, period.
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Like minds and all...
...both posts @ 13:12...we're on the same wavelength, you and I...
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That ash is harmless,won't hurt you a bit,besides we are rich, we don't have to live in it. And the people that do...well they like it, their kids have a snow-like play-ground to play in, and they don't have to water the lawn. See it's just how you look at things that make them good or bad. Keep a postive mind set people, when the great and powerful magical being comes back to earth, all things will be made whole, yea thats right,SHIT-WHOLE.CEO,citizens,eyes,open
That's cancer with a big red ribbon around it. If any good can come from this disaster it may be that coal is realized as the eco-terror it is. Hydrogen anyone?
When the first reports came out saying the water et al, was fine. I knew that was a sign the people better stay the hell as far away from it as they could. For the past eight years, anything the govt says is safe, can kill you.
Didn't Obama mention Clean Coal in his campaign speeches about energy? Huh? I think we've been duped, but hey, there is Change afoot! I can smell it! Alright, let's create some more cancer patients for the health industry to "cure", or maybe the big O can fix that. Doubt it.
Is Obama president yet?
The important thing to remember is none of those fish died because of toxic waste, it was the surge in the river that pushed them ashore. The EPA at work, spinning disaster in overtime.
No one could have predicted the "levees" would break, right?
the water in Tennessee is just fine! Don't mind that big, black mound of toxin floating by your door...
mess. Nice friendly folk, probably pretty red. Got to wonder how much sh*t they'll swallow, versus if this had happened in a "bluer" area. I really hope they don't get f*cked by EPA, TVA, etc, but they probably will.
They don't take kindly to them environmental types in them thar parts.
They don't take kindly to them environmental types in them thar parts.
If memory serves me correctly, the EPA only regulates private enterprise--government is exempt from its own regulatory agencies.
The Tennessee River has been sufficiently polluted, for many years, to necessitate warnings about eating the fish caught from the river, which frequently have open sores and birth defects. White fishermen joke about insanity from "eating too many three-eyed fish". Blacks may not be able to read the warnings, merely believe that white folks are trying to exclude them for racist reasons, or, sadly may need the food to supplement their meager food stamp allotments.
The silt layer under the Chattanooga portion of the river tests positive for strontium 90 and lead, where old auto batteries were dumped there in years past.
The nasty possibility also exists that other hazardous wastes were trucked in or brought in by rail and dumped on the heap.
In this part of the country, Santa brings a stocking full/sack of/ "clinkers"--coal ashes--to bad young'uns. This year, he targeted some badly errant adults. A solar water evaporation/distilling plant--or several--need to be treating drinking water, and soon. The next Trail of Tears may well be Tennessee Valley residents leaving home for anywhere with potable water. You can bet your declining stock fund that equities on this property will flat-line.
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