Tag: coal
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Breaking: Duke Energy Caught Dumping Wastewater from Coal Ash Lagoon Into Local Watershed
Waterkeeper Alliance released aerial surveillance photos taken from a fixed-wing aircraft last week showing Duke Energy workers pumping wastewater from two of Duke Energy’s toxic coal ash lagoons into a canal that drains into the Cape Fear River. [blackoutgallery id=”326556″] The revelation comes less than two months after the Dan River disaster, where at least 30,000 tons…
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Hidden Camera Reveals Dumping of Toxic Coal Ash Into Ohio River
Time-lapse photography from a camera strapped to a tree has captured a year’s worth of images proving that dangerous coal ash wastewater from a plant owned by the utility company Louisville Gas & Electric (LG&E) is pouring unabated into the Ohio River. This photographic evidence, along with Google Earth satellite images from 1993 to present,…
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Duke Energy Announces Coal Ash Spill Cleanup Will Take 2+ Years; Emails Show Collusion Between Regulators and NC Utility
Duke Energy, North Carolina’s largest electric and gas supplier, announced Friday it would take the company more than two years to clean up February’s massive coal ash spill that coated 70 miles of the Dan River with 60,000 tons of toxic sludge. [caption id="attachment_326282" align="alignnone" width="500"] Environmental regulators in North Carolina consulted Duke Energy last year…
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It’s Time to Move Beyond Dirty Coal
Post Carbon Institute, Sierra Club, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition and AlterNet have partnered to show what’s at stake in the fight against coal with a powerful slideshow of recent coal disasters including the Freedom Industries chemical spill, Duke Energy ash spill, West Virginia slurry spill, mountaintop removal mining and more. [blackoutgallery id=”323952″] After viewing this slideshow, read essays from The…
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New Greenpeace Website Exposes Financier Behind Huge Coal Project Proposals in Pacific Northwest
A new website developed by Greenpeace seeks to expose the lengths a private equity investor has gone to support those who want to export coal from the Northwest U.S. to Asia. RossBhappu.com chronicles Ross Bhappu’s key role in coal export proposals in Oregon and Washington, bankrolling Australia-based Ambre Energy—a company that one day hopes to export more…