Coal Plants Dump Waste Into Our Drinking Water


	Coal Plants Dump Waste Into Our Drinking Water

mcsmithblack

10-16-2009 11:51 PM

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mcsmithblack says:

The Coal Business was foul and dirty from the beginning and it hasn't changed a bit.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0d29cef0-7f3f-41c8-a59b-0dce3c27fe04/1A65ECCF-BBC3-4A6B-AED7-FD271E533118/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.alternet.org/story/143257/us_coal_plants_dump_thousands_of_gallons_of_waste_into_drinking_water_supplies_a_day" href="http://www.alternet.org/story/143257/us_coal_plants_dump_thousands_of_gallons_of_waste_into_drinking_water_supplies_a_day" style="font-size: 11px;">www.alternet.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/story/143257/us_coal_plants_dump_thousands_of_gallons_of_waste_into_drinking_water_supplies_a_day"><P class="storyheadline">US Coal Plants Dump Thousands of Gallons of Waste Into Drinking Water Supplies a Day</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/story/143257/us_coal_plants_dump_thousands_of_gallons_of_waste_into_drinking_water_supplies_a_day"><P>Why is anyone <A linkindex="86" href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/09/7-dirtiest-tricks-clean-energy-reform-foes.php">fighting to save</A> these things again? A detailed report in <A linkindex="87" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/us/13water.html">the New York Times</A> just revealed that hundreds of coal plants across the country are routinely dumping thousands of gallons of waste water into rivers and lakes -- rivers and lakes that millions of people get their drinking water from.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/story/143257/us_coal_plants_dump_thousands_of_gallons_of_waste_into_drinking_water_supplies_a_day"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.alternet.org/img/95475DA7-1C3B-461F-A952-A9B075B0E999" alt="coal-plants-waste.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/story/143257/us_coal_plants_dump_thousands_of_gallons_of_waste_into_drinking_water_supplies_a_day"><P>If they're lucky, as in the case of the super-polluting coal plant in Masontown, Pennsylvania, they're successful, and the coal company installs 'scrubbers' that trap up to 150,000 tons of the pollution and keep it from entering the air. Hooray! Right?</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/story/143257/us_coal_plants_dump_thousands_of_gallons_of_waste_into_drinking_water_supplies_a_day"><P>Not so fast. Since the scrubbing process creates waste water from all that pollution, it turns out that the coal companies are simply dumping all of into nearby rivers and lakes, many of which Americans get their drinking water from.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/story/143257/us_coal_plants_dump_thousands_of_gallons_of_waste_into_drinking_water_supplies_a_day"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.alternet.org/img/F33EA394-C541-430C-BBF1-BB31DE8BE6F1" alt="coal-map-waste-us.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/story/143257/us_coal_plants_dump_thousands_of_gallons_of_waste_into_drinking_water_supplies_a_day"><P>It also notes those few plants that have had to pay fines -- but they're egregiously low, even for excessive violations:</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1A65ECCF-BBC3-4A6B-AED7-FD271E533118/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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