Coal

Coal Ash Unmonitored In Fill Sites Across North Carolina

April 22, 2014 Bruce Henderson, www.charlotteobserver.com Educate! Coal, pollution

Coal ash, infamous for its recent splash into the Dan River, also lies along Charlotte’s outerbelt. It’s next to a Huntersville car dealership and under a Lowe’s store in Mooresville. The ash was used to level ground and fill gullies. Duke Energy once sold it for 50 cents to $1 a ton, disposing of waste – and a liability – it would otherwise have had to store in ponds or landfills. At least 1.8 million cubic yards of dry ash are buried in nearly two dozen places around Charlotte, not counting power plants. That’s enough to cover 1,100 acres a foot deep in ash. An unknown amount of wet ash, removed from ponds and regulated separately, was also used as fill material. The state can’t locate records before 2011 that would show where or how large those sites are. State standards are so minimal that even property owners, much less their neighbors, might not know what’s underfoot. And while ash has a known ability to contaminate groundwater, fill sites are rarely tested.

Grassroots Group Is Successfully Closing Coal Plants

April 20, 2014 Rose Gomez, www.occupy.com Resist! Climate Change, Coal, Environment, health

I was interested in working to close the two ancient, century-old coal power plants that existed a few miles apart from one another in the communities of Pilsen and Little Village, both on the South Side of Chicago. Each of the coal power plants, Fisk in Pilsen and Crawford in Little Village, operated within hundreds of feet of the homes and residents. I grew up in one of these communities until I was a teenager. It angered me how these outdated coal plants existed despite documented evidence of environmental and health dangers that directly affected residents. In September 2012, the painstaking, decade-long struggle ended with the closure of both coal-powered plants. It was a sweet and joyous victory after all our sweat and toil.

NC Regulators Side With Duke Energy

April 10, 2014 Michael Biesecker, www.charlotteobserver.com Educate! Coal, Corruption

North Carolina regulators are joining with Duke Energy in appealing a judge's ruling on cleaning up groundwater pollution leeching from the company's coal ash dumps. The state Environmental Management Commission filed notice Monday that it intends to appeal a March 6 ruling by Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway. The commission and Duke contend North Carolina law does not give the state the authority to order an immediate cleanup. Ridgeway ruled the state had been misinterpreting the law for years. Environmentalists say the decision to file an appeal directly conflicts with public statements from Gov. Pat McCrory suggesting his administration is getting tough with his former employer after a Feb. 2 coal ash spill that coated 70 miles of the Dan River in toxic gray sludge.

Batgirls Shut Down Coal Mine

April 6, 2014 Staff, www.creativeresistance.org Resist! Blockade, Coal, Energy, Environment

From CreativeResistance.org: A group of people, including two woman dressed as bats, stopped work at Idemitsu’s Boggabri coal mine to protest habitat destruction caused by ongoing expansion of coal mining in Leard forest. Two activists in bat costumes have scaled a coal loader on site and have unfurled a banner reading “Save the Leard” The action is part of an ongoing campaign to protect vulnerable species of the Leard State Forest from coal mining. A spokesman for the group said “We stand firm in protest over these open pit coal mines. We will not stop until this forest is protected.”

Angel Of Peace Arrives At Bentley Blockade Of Coal Gas Drilling Site

March 30, 2014 Marie Cameron (A woman with a camera), www.echo.net.au Resist! Australia, Blockade, Coal, Gas

The Bentley blockade has completed its second month and CSG miner Metgasco has yet to get anything through their front gate. Two weeks behind schedule, and with increased blockade pressure, Metgasco can only rely on the force of the police to get its equipment in. Monday saw a carnival atmosphere at the all-important Rosella gate A when the Peace Angel arrived. In the heavy dawn mist people waited to greet her. As the sun rose over the range, there she stood, peaceful and playful on top of a bamboo tripod. Silhouetted in the ball of light she unfurled her wings and peace rolled over the blockade and farmlands.

Illinois Residents Fight Back Against Coal Industry

March 21, 2014 Joanna M. Foster, www.thinkprogress.org Resist! Coal, Energy, Environment

On Wednesday, residents of Saline County in southern Illinois presented the Illinois Environmental Agency and the state’s attorney general with a 5,000 signature petition in an attempt to put the brakes on coal-mining in their community. They say the mine — Peabody’s Cottage Grove Strip Mine — is polluting the air and water and want these claims to be investigated. They are also calling for a probe into the Illinois Department of Natural Resources issuing of permits. As reported by Al Jazeera America, coal mining has increased by seventy percent in Illinois over the past five years, despite the state’s other promising moves towards cleaner energy. Much of the new coal mining is in southern Illinois. The petition follows the latest coal mining controversy in the state in the small farming community of Rocky Branch. Peabody Energy is in the process of extending the Cottage Grove mine into this community — within 300 feet of homes.

NC State Regulators Colluded Against Environmentalists

March 15, 2014 Sarah Lazare, www.commondreams.org Educate! Coal, Energy, Environment, North Carolina

Internal emails released Thursday by environmental lawyers confirm what activists have long charged: the North Carolina authorities tasked with regulating Duke Energy — the company responsible for the Dan River coal ash disaster — have been colluding with the corporation behind closed doors to undermine concerned environmental groups. "These documents reveal a very cozy relationship between the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources and Duke and a deferential approach from DENR to Duke," said Nick Torrey, Associate Attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center, in an interview with Common Dreams.

Southern Illinois Says No to Peabody Coal at Historic Hearing

February 20, 2014 Jeff Biggers, www.ecowatch.com Resist! Coal, Energy, Environment, Government

Outnumbering Peabody Energy supporters more than four to one among those willing to make public comments, outraged residents, farmers and former miners expertly broke down the inconsistencies and errors in the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency’s (IEPA) tentative determination to issue a water quality permit at a packed strip mine hearing on Tuesday in the heart of Illinois’ coal country. It was a historic evening in Harrisburg, Illinois—only a few miles from where Peabody Coal sank its first coal mine in 1895—and for first time in decades, southern Illinois residents brought the spotlight to issues of civil rights and the state’s spiraling crisis from a poorly regulated coal mining rush. “They are ringing the bell for the death of Rocky Branch,” said Rita Karns, whose family has farmed and lived in the famed Shawnee Forest area for generations, “and we’ve got to stop it.”

Former Miner Admits Dumping Chemicals In Water For Decades

January 24, 2014 Robert Johnson and Guis Lubin www.businessinsider.com Educate! Coal, Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture

An Environmental Protection Agency assessment last year identified 132 cases where coal-fired power plant waste has damaged rivers, streams and lakes, and 123 where it has tainted underground water sources, according to an AP investigation by Dina Cappiello and Seth Borenstein. Nearly three quarters of the 1,727 coal mines in the U.S. have not been inspected in five years to see if they are following water pollution laws, according to the same investigation, which cites these and other alarming findings about coal pollution.

Quit Coal. Shut Off the Gas. Remember West Virginia.

January 23, 2014 Rivera Sun, www.PopularResistance.org Educate! Coal, Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Oil and Gas

Every time your gas water heater roars to life in your basement, remember the West Virginians. Hundreds of thousands of residents no longer have drinkable water. The same chemical (MCHM) that contaminated the Elk River is also used for fracking for oil and natural gas in communities around the country. The tragedy waits to repeat itself in a watershed near you. Every time you click on your gas stove, remember the forty-seven citizens killed by a fire caused by a train derailment in Lac Megantic, Quebec, Canada. When you hear the subtle hiss of that blue flame, remember, people have been poisoned for your natural gas. Stare into the flame for a moment longer and imagine the miles of underground seams filled with fracking fluids that need only a tectonic shift to crack open a fissure into the aquifers above them. The substratum of our continent is now laced with accidents just waiting to happen.

Momentum Builds For Action To Stop Coal Train Strain

January 23, 2014 Blue Skies Campaign, , www.blueskiesmt.com Organize! Coal, Energy, Environment, Montana

The rail yard is an existing public health hazard that should not exist so close to residential areas, and bringing more coal trains through would make the problem even worse. This is the message we’ll send on February 22nd, when residents and allies will rise up for rail line justice in Missoula. This will be a peaceful, respectful display of opposition to coal train pollution. It starts at 2pm on Feb 22nd, with a rally outside the Missoula County Courthouse (200 W. Broadway St). After hearing from inspiring speakers, we’ll march along a section of rail line, ending at the Madison/Duncan Street crossing. There, where a heavily used residential street intersects with the railroad tracks, we’ll hold a creative action to illustrate the effect thirty extra coal trains will have on the Missoula community. Together, we’ll send a message to state officials that rail line communities deserve to be heard in decisions over coal exports.

Over 200 West Virginians At State Capitol Demand Answers

January 19, 2014 Deborah Dupre, www.beforeitsnews.com Resist! Coal, Energy, Environment, Food and Agriculture, West Virginia, West Virginia Chemical Spill

Some 200 angry but peaceful West Virgnians gathered on the steps of the state capitol building in Charleston Saturday in the cold to send one main message to their elected leaders: “We want answers.” Carrying signs, such as “Prosecute the Poisoners” the group called the protest out of desperation in light of the chemical spill state of emergency. A leaked chemical, “Crude MCHM” from Freedom Industries tank has poisoned 100,000 homes and impacted 300,000 people. People are sick. People are injured. They want answers that officials say they do not have. ‘People are sick, animals are sick. The water is now a blue goo at one friends house,” explains Missi-Tracy Pauley on Facebook. “Where are the rights our men and women fight for? Where are the promises the elected officials gave? Where are their morals?"

Corporate Deregulation To Blame for Toxic Spill In West Virginia

January 16, 2014 Jessica Desvarieux, www.therealnews.com Educate! Coal, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Health Care

So the question is: how did this happen? How did a facility a mile and a half upstream from the drinking water plant that gets drinking water to 300,000 people have this leak happen? And the answer is: in my mind it's the coal and chemical industry in this state has fostered a culture of deregulation. They've captured the major institutions in the state, including the major media, except for The Charleston Gazette, which is doing an incredible job reporting on this. The major university systems, both political parties, are beholden to big coal and to the chemical industry. And the result was predictable. And we've seen this over and over again with these kinds of disasters--in April 2010, the Massey Upper Big Branch explosion, Massey Energy mine, that killed 29 workers. And the Labor Department report found, you know, hundreds of violations. Obviously, the companies aren't taking the violations seriously, 'cause if they were, they would clean up their act. So we need in this state to upend the control, the corporate control of the institutions and bring back a sense of law and order for corporate West Virginia.

Blockade of Mine Site Enters Third Day

January 14, 2014 Earth First News, www.earthfirstjournal.org Resist! Blockade, Coal, Environment

The Leard Forest is set to be destroyed by the open pit coal mine, and the heavy machines are supposed to start clearing forest for Witehaven Coal’s operation. The forest is important habitat, as well as a cultural and burial site for Aboriginal people in the area. Activist group the Leard Forest Alliance said the heavy vehicles were at the site to begin clearing forest for a road and railway line to service Whitehaven Coal’s $767 million open-cut coalmine. The alliance says the mine will destroy Aboriginal cultural and burial sites and valuable forest and animals.

Jan. 25th Action Camp to Stop Construction of Coal Mine

January 14, 2014 ACT350, act.350.org Resist! Coal, Direct Action, Environment

The time to step up is now. Construction has now begun on the Maules Creek Coal Mine in central New South Wales, with bulldozers destroying parts of the Leard State Forest. As the bulldozers have moved in though, campaigners from all around the country have joined hands with the local community to stop the construction. Protesters have started a blockade of the entrance to the mine, turning back vehicles seeking to clear the forest for construction of rail infrastructure. We need your help however to keep this going.

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