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I can't believe this! The hippies are trying to blame coal sludge for dead fish!
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/12/29...dge/index.html
Yes, the water's safe for humans, but fatal to fish??Oh, we better stop drinking water because it kills fish!
Give me a break! It's only a billion gallons! That's nothing! Do you know how many gallons are the oceans? Or even in all the rivers? Way more than a billion.
The spill unleashed more than a billion gallons of sludge -- enough to fill 1,660 Olympic-size swimming pools.
The sludge is a byproduct of the ash from coal combustion. A retention site at the Tennessee Valley Authority's power plant in Kingston, about 40 miles west of Knoxville, contained the waste until a wall breached last Monday, sending the sludge downhill to damage 15 homes and cover at least 300 acres.
The TVA's initial estimate for the spill tripled from 1.8 million cubic yards, or more than 360 million gallons of sludge, to 5.4 million cubic yards, or more than 1 billion gallons.
The plant sits on a tributary of the Tennessee River called the Clinch River. Video footage from the river, a popular fishing site, reveals piles of dead fish on its banks. The TVA says that has nothing to do with the toxicity of the sludge, though environmental advocates say the ash contains concentrated levels of mercury and arsenic.
TVA officials have said water quality tests from a nearby water treatment facility have shown that the water from the river intake meets federal and state guidelines for potable water.
The sludge is a byproduct of the ash from coal combustion. A retention site at the Tennessee Valley Authority's power plant in Kingston, about 40 miles west of Knoxville, contained the waste until a wall breached last Monday, sending the sludge downhill to damage 15 homes and cover at least 300 acres.
The TVA's initial estimate for the spill tripled from 1.8 million cubic yards, or more than 360 million gallons of sludge, to 5.4 million cubic yards, or more than 1 billion gallons.
The plant sits on a tributary of the Tennessee River called the Clinch River. Video footage from the river, a popular fishing site, reveals piles of dead fish on its banks. The TVA says that has nothing to do with the toxicity of the sludge, though environmental advocates say the ash contains concentrated levels of mercury and arsenic.
TVA officials have said water quality tests from a nearby water treatment facility have shown that the water from the river intake meets federal and state guidelines for potable water.
Yes, the water's safe for humans, but fatal to fish??Oh, we better stop drinking water because it kills fish!
Give me a break! It's only a billion gallons! That's nothing! Do you know how many gallons are the oceans? Or even in all the rivers? Way more than a billion.
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