Jan 12 2009
The Other Stuff
With the news of a second coal ash spill, this time in Alabama, a lot more attention needs to be paid to the issue. Devilstower, writing in Daily Kos, has an important must-read personal account of fly ash in his home town. Devilstower concludes:
Right now most of [the] cost is paid by the people in small towns like Kingston, TN and Larado, WV and Inez, KY. It’s the towns near the plants that stockpile ash, and the towns near the mines that impound sludge. Towns like the one where I grew up. That’s where people pay the price so that politicians can talk about “clean coal.”
