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North Carolina: Coal Ash Leak Is Diverted but Not Contained
2014-02-08 04:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Duke Energy said Friday that it was diverting the flow of coal ash away from the Dan River, but the company could not yet declare the huge spill fully contained nearly a week after it was discovered. Meghan Musgrave, a company spokeswoman, said that engineers at the Dan River Steam Station had designed a containment system that is capturing nearly all of the toxic runoff and pumping it back into a storage basin. Duke says up to 82,000 tons of coal ash mixed with 27 million gallons of contaminated...
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BHP cuts Australia coal mine jobs as cost pressures mount
2014-02-07 11:08:37| Grocery - Topix.net
Anglo-Australian miner BHP Billiton and Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp will cut around 230 jobs at a jointly-owned coal mine in Australia in a cost-cutting move as Asia's demand for the fuel wanes.
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More Than 80,000 Tons Of Coal Ash Flow Into N.C. River
2014-02-06 00:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: Over the weekend at an old power plant in Eden, N.C., a stormwater pipe that goes under a coal ash pond broke, sending about 82,000 tons of ash - the equivalent of 30 Olympic-sized swimming pools - into the Dan River. The river stretches more than 200 miles from North Carolina, through Virginia and into the Atlantic Ocean. It's home to all sorts of wildlife, and a popular destination for fishermen and kayakers. On Wednesday, Jennifer Edwards, with the Dan River Basin Association, was checking...
Coal Ash Landfill Proposed in Kentucky as Spill Plays Out in N.C.
2014-02-05 17:51:00| Waste Age
LG&E and KU Energy have proposed to build a new coal ash dump in Trimble County, Ky., according to the Courier-Journal. read more
Senator: US coal sales might have cost taxpayers
2014-02-04 12:19:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Congressional investigators have found problems with federal coal sales that might have cost taxpayers $200 million or more in lost revenue, a senator said Tuesday. Citing a new report by investigators at the non-partisan Government Accountability Office, U.S. Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., called for the sales to be suspended until the problems are rectified. Further details on losses -- including when they occurred and how much coal was involved -- were not provided, drawing skepticism from...
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