Comments on: 60 Minutes Report On Coal Ash

By: Indeed

Indeed — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 05:37:04 +0000

The coal industry is ravaging Southern Appalachia…Mountaintop removal destroys local habitat, trods over property rights, and actually results in fewer jobs in the coal industry.

Increased regulation of the coal industry would be a net benefit in terms of Global Warming, local coal producing environments, and local coal producing areas’ jobs and economy in general. Tragically, those players can’t compete with the money from Big Coal management. How sad.

By: MobiusKlein

MobiusKlein — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:58:24 +0000

I watched it, and I wished there was more than generalized statements of increased toxicity. And not just some random stat, but comparative stuff.

Like X times more mercury than normal soil, or anything.
It’s just so dumbed down that it doesn’t help somebody with a scientific bent weigh that risk against all the other risks we face.

By: Southern Quaker

Southern Quaker — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:23:02 +0000

The coal industry is ravaging Southern Appalachia. The coal ash problem is just one of it’s dirty little secrets. Mountaintop removal destroys local habitat, trods over property rights, and actually results in fewer jobs in the coal industry. Stream fill is destroying the watersheds of Appalachia, the same water sheds that feed the communities along the Atlantic coast that are so hungry for cheap electricity.

Most of the largest owners are absentee landlords. Yet they pump money into local elections to make sure that coal remains king.

There’s no such thing as clean coal.

By: I'm a Hick

I'm a Hick — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:28:38 +0000

I’ve always pointed to the TVA as an example of a major govt project that works. This was disppointing to put it mildly.

By: bryan

bryan — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:58:48 +0000

Don’t just blame W. reagan was the last president who cut emissions. Clinton was particularly non-helping (until the dems were voted out and a raft of stuff was done for the reps to undo when they got in).

By: jr

jr — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 07:27:47 +0000

This is why we need public financing of political campaigns. Big coal to big Pharma are destroying this country every time they write a check to a politician

By: Matt Osborne

Matt Osborne — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:43:12 +0000

I live about two miles from one of these wet storage facilities. TVA could have changed to much safer dry storage systems 30 years ago and saved a ton of money, but after the disaster in Tennessee they’re finally doing it at a far more expensive time.