Coal-Fired Plants Gulp 1.5 Trillion Gallons of Water and We're Left to Drink the Dirt

[Ladywriter 7,783]

Coal-Fired Plants Gulp 1.5 Trillion Gallons of Water and We're Left to Drink the Dirty Backwash

According to a recent analysis of EPA data, the NY Times concluded:

"Power plants are the nation's biggest producer of toxic waste, surpassing industries like plastic and paint manufacturing and chemical plants."

But the cleaner air has come at a cost. Each day since the equipment was switched on in June, the company has dumped tens of thousands of gallons of wastewater containing chemicals from the scrubbing process into the Monongahela River, which provides drinking water to 350,000 people and flows into Pittsburgh, 40 miles to the north.

"It's like they decided to spare us having to breathe in these poisons, but now we have to drink them instead," said Philip Coleman, who lives about 15 miles from the plant and has asked a state judge to toughen the facility's pollution regulations. "We can't escape."

Even as a growing number of coal-burning power plants around the nation have moved to reduce their air emissions, many of them are creating another problem: water pollution.

say it with me now... There is No such thing as clean coal!

[Khellendross 1,260]

Next time I drive to Bismark i'll take a camera along, we have alot of windmills going up all over down here.

[Ladywriter 7,783]

nice