Sentences with phrase «coal slurry»
"Coal slurry" refers to a thick mixture of coal particles and liquid (usually water). It is created by combining crushed coal with water to transport or store it. Full definition
In Martin county Kentucky in 2000, three - hundred million gallons of toxic coal slurry spilled out into the adjacent streams and rivers.
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The mining process produces a waste known as coal slurry which is impounded behind earthen dams in the valleys of the former mountains.
Exposure to the slurry of water and other chemicals formed after coal is washed would be more dangerous to human health than exposure to MCMH — and there have been numerous coal slurry floods and spills in West Virginia and U.S. history.
A bacteria is being modified as we speak, to eat coal slurry and produce fuel!
As a result of TVA, the Charleston Gazette reports that West Virginia Congressman Nick J. Rahall, Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, plans to close a loophole in existing federal law that permits power - plant dams to avoid regulations designed to prevent blowouts (like what happened in Tennessee) at pre-combustion coal slurry impoundments.
The prison's immediate surroundings, according to the investigation's 2014 report, No Escape: Exposure to Toxic Coal Waste at State Correctional Institution Fayette, include about 40 million tons of waste, two coal slurry ponds and millions of cubic yards of coal combustion waste.
This processing creates coal slurry, or sludge, a mix of water, coal dust and clay containing toxic heavy metals such as arsenic, mercury, lead and chromium.
If you live under the rim of a beautiful mountain that is about to be blasted into oblivion... your air filled with particlate matter, your wells sunk or polluted, your water ways filled with selenim, mercury, coal slurry....
The coal slurry is often dumped in open impoundments, sometimes built with mining debris, making them very unstable.
Coal slurry is a by - product of washing the coal to improve its efficiency in power generation, but is both toxic and potentially lethal if containment ponds fail.