Someone should propose Federal legislation that would require companies that create coal ash to dispose of that coal ash in the state in which it was generated.
I got thinking about it because a familiar mass-transit project is underway to move spilled coal ash from North Carolina to Virginia.
Three thirty-car trainloads a week.
Alabamians know all about that process. Coal ash from a TVA spill in Tennessee was carried by a similar endless train-car procession to poor Perry County Alabama.
According to the local newspaper, nobody seems upset in the area of the Virginia landfill, though there have been environmental concerns in Uniontown, Alabama.
Blame "Obama's War On Coal" or just common sense by the utility companies, but coal is on the way out, and so is the coal ash that comes along with it.
The Southern Company is eliminating coal in many of its plant in Georgia....and at least at one plants in Alabama too... in Greene County. One environmental group says Alabama Power has been slower than other Southern Company affiliates at eliminating coal.
UPDATE on 1-31-16: A South Georgia community is also worried that coal ash is headed to a landfill near them. Like Perry County Alabama to the West, Screven County Georgia has a large minority population.
[Sunday Focus is a regular feature of www.timlennox.com]
I got thinking about it because a familiar mass-transit project is underway to move spilled coal ash from North Carolina to Virginia.
Three thirty-car trainloads a week.
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| 2009, coal ash being loaded, headed for Alabama |
According to the local newspaper, nobody seems upset in the area of the Virginia landfill, though there have been environmental concerns in Uniontown, Alabama.
Blame "Obama's War On Coal" or just common sense by the utility companies, but coal is on the way out, and so is the coal ash that comes along with it.
UPDATE on 1-31-16: A South Georgia community is also worried that coal ash is headed to a landfill near them. Like Perry County Alabama to the West, Screven County Georgia has a large minority population.
[Sunday Focus is a regular feature of www.timlennox.com]
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