Thursday, January 23, 2014

WV - It just gets worse. BIG Coal COMPANIES HAVE BEEN DUMPING CHEMICALS AND RUINING WATER FOR YEARS AND YEARS!

Coal-fired power plants are the nation's biggest water polluters, spewing millions of pounds of toxic metals and other pollutants like arsenic, boron, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, and selenium into surface waters each year.
Beyond West Virginia, need another example of how close to home this contamination can be? Duke Energy's coal ash pollution is contaminating North Carolina's Mountain Island Lake - a drinking water source for more than 750,000 people in the greater Charlotte area.
Additionally, Duke Energy's coal ash pollution from one coal plant in North Carolina kills 900,000 fish every year in Sutton Lake -- and that's just how it affects the fish!
In West Virginia, parents are wondering if they can let their kids drink the water, pregnant women are being told to drink bottled water -- and we don't even know yet the full effects of these leaked chemicals on the land and aquatic wildlife.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/01/23/1271966/-The-News-Just-Keeps-Getting-Worse-for-West-Virginia-and-It-Doesn-t-Stop-There?detail=facebook

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