It has existed and the laws in North Carolina primarily favor the hazards to citizens then effect the profits of the company. The politicians have been so very successful in lying about that reality the rhetoric is legendary.
Bird’s Eye View of Coal Ash (click here)
Coal contains heavy metals by its very nature. Heavy metals are toxic and oftentimes, a little dab will do ya. For example, just one teaspoon’s worth of mercury can contaminate a 20 acre lake to the extent that the fish become contaminated enough that they can become unsafe to eat.
When coal is burned for electricity, heavy metals are concentrated in the resultant coal ash (known more technically as “coal combustion waste”). Heavy metals of concern include but are not limited to arsenic, lead, mercury, manganese, and selenium. Each of these heavy metals can have differing negative effects on the body....
The liars are real and the lies manufactured as if true. The federal EPA need to have a presence among the environmental groups in NC and dispel the lies, otherwise the danger to citizen lives will go on forever.
This display of solidarity with Duke Energy's Mr. Everett is proof enough the government is corrupt to the core and willing to lie along with companies to insure their profits. North Carolina needs a truth teller and the only authority left that needs to stand exactly in the same place as Everett is here are Federal authorities. Federal regulators and EPA need to speak directly to the NC legislature AND have it televised to the people of the state.
The environmental groups need to be stated BY NAME, have them present as a citizen has the right to attend legislative sessions, highly praised while stating they are correct and have been vigilant the entire time. It has to be said they are to be known to be accurate reporters of the environmental circumstances the people face. The citizens of North Carolina have truth tellers in their environmental groups that are far too numerous to list here.
The truth will be valued by those that believe lying is a sin.
George Everett, Director of Environmental and
Legislative Affairs for Duke Energy, center front, explains what
measures Duke Energy took following a coal ash spill into the Dan River
from one of their facilities during the N.C. Legislature's Environmental
Review Commission meeting Monday morning in the Legislative Office
Bldg. in Raleigh, Feb 17, 2014. Above him is a photo of the site. The
lawmakers heard from Duke Energy, state officials with DENR and the
Division of Water Resources and the public on the accident.
By John Murawski
RALEIGH — State environmental regulators and a Duke Energy executive (click here) assured state lawmakers Monday that Duke’s accidental spewing of tons of coal ash into the Dan River poses no immediate threat to public health.
The hastily scheduled hearing was the first update lawmakers had received on the environmental accident, but it offered few specifics on how and when North Carolina will go about cleaning up the river and preventing other coal ash accidents.
The N.C. Environmental Review Commission, consisting of House and Senate legislators, heard nearly three hours of statements on the spill in Rockingham County that has resulted in a public warning not to eat fish from the Dan River and nationally televised images of a grayish, batter-like goop clogging the waterway that winds through the North Carolina-Virginia border....
Bird’s Eye View of Coal Ash (click here)
Coal contains heavy metals by its very nature. Heavy metals are toxic and oftentimes, a little dab will do ya. For example, just one teaspoon’s worth of mercury can contaminate a 20 acre lake to the extent that the fish become contaminated enough that they can become unsafe to eat.
When coal is burned for electricity, heavy metals are concentrated in the resultant coal ash (known more technically as “coal combustion waste”). Heavy metals of concern include but are not limited to arsenic, lead, mercury, manganese, and selenium. Each of these heavy metals can have differing negative effects on the body....
The liars are real and the lies manufactured as if true. The federal EPA need to have a presence among the environmental groups in NC and dispel the lies, otherwise the danger to citizen lives will go on forever.
This display of solidarity with Duke Energy's Mr. Everett is proof enough the government is corrupt to the core and willing to lie along with companies to insure their profits. North Carolina needs a truth teller and the only authority left that needs to stand exactly in the same place as Everett is here are Federal authorities. Federal regulators and EPA need to speak directly to the NC legislature AND have it televised to the people of the state.
The environmental groups need to be stated BY NAME, have them present as a citizen has the right to attend legislative sessions, highly praised while stating they are correct and have been vigilant the entire time. It has to be said they are to be known to be accurate reporters of the environmental circumstances the people face. The citizens of North Carolina have truth tellers in their environmental groups that are far too numerous to list here.
The truth will be valued by those that believe lying is a sin.
By John Murawski
jmurawski@newsobserver.com
February 17, 2014 RALEIGH — State environmental regulators and a Duke Energy executive (click here) assured state lawmakers Monday that Duke’s accidental spewing of tons of coal ash into the Dan River poses no immediate threat to public health.
The hastily scheduled hearing was the first update lawmakers had received on the environmental accident, but it offered few specifics on how and when North Carolina will go about cleaning up the river and preventing other coal ash accidents.
The N.C. Environmental Review Commission, consisting of House and Senate legislators, heard nearly three hours of statements on the spill in Rockingham County that has resulted in a public warning not to eat fish from the Dan River and nationally televised images of a grayish, batter-like goop clogging the waterway that winds through the North Carolina-Virginia border....
