Sentences with phrase «of coal sludge»

A wave of coal sludge 30 feet high flooded 16 communities down Buffalo Creek Hollow.

Not exact matches

Instead of Australia dumping millions of tonnes of sludge onto their Great Barrier Reef so they can export more coal to be burned (8 February, p 7), why don't they send it to an island country that needs it because of rising sea levels caused by climate change, such as Tuvalu in Polynesia?

Instead of Australia dumping millions of tonnes of sludge onto their Great Barrier Reef so they can export more coal...

More than 1 billion gallons of toxic sludge were released into a Tennessee community when a dam collapsed last December, causing a massive coal - ash spill at the Kingston Fossil Plant, a coal - burning power plant owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Australia will dump millions of tonnes of sludge inside the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park so that it can export more coal.

Water Pollution from Coal includes negative health and environmental effects from the mining, processing, burning, and waste storage of coal, including acid mine drainage, thermal pollution from coal plants, acid rain, and contamination of groundwater, streams, rivers, and seas from heavy metals, mercury, and other toxins and pollutants found in coal ash, coal sludge, and coal waCoal includes negative health and environmental effects from the mining, processing, burning, and waste storage of coal, including acid mine drainage, thermal pollution from coal plants, acid rain, and contamination of groundwater, streams, rivers, and seas from heavy metals, mercury, and other toxins and pollutants found in coal ash, coal sludge, and coal wacoal, including acid mine drainage, thermal pollution from coal plants, acid rain, and contamination of groundwater, streams, rivers, and seas from heavy metals, mercury, and other toxins and pollutants found in coal ash, coal sludge, and coal wacoal plants, acid rain, and contamination of groundwater, streams, rivers, and seas from heavy metals, mercury, and other toxins and pollutants found in coal ash, coal sludge, and coal wacoal ash, coal sludge, and coal wacoal sludge, and coal wacoal waste.

This ash and sludge consists of coal ash, limestone, and many pollutants, such as toxic metals like lead and mercury.

It also makes economic sense: All those reservoirs filling up with coal ash day after day are just problems waiting to happen, and if we're just waiting for catastrophes to happen before we do something, the true cost of burning coal isn't being internalized properly; local citizens and people downstream of those rivers end up paying for it with their health and by losing their local environment (what if your family house was buried in potentially toxic sludge?).

«Waste created by a typical coal plant includes more than 125,000 tons of ash and 193,000 tons of sludge from the smokestack scrubber each year.

The film lays out in disturbing detail the damage caused by the coal industry to Appalachia over the past decades: a million acres of forest destroyed, 2,000 miles of streams buried and 300 million gallons of toxic sludge spilled.

That's home to the 2000 sludge flood, where 308 million gallons of toxic sludge broke from a coal impoundment.

Regulations for storage of millions of tons of coal ash around the country — leftover toxic sludge of the sort that spilled over hundreds of acres of eastern Tennessee in 2008 — remain in limbo.

But are you really arguing that coal plants don't push a toxic sludge back into the waters that then carry that toxic sludge into the rest of the ecosystem?

That means their money is funds sludge impoundments like Brushy Fork which is currently holding 7 billion gallons of coal waste above the Coal River Valcoal waste above the Coal River ValCoal River Valley.

Geothermal — onshore wind — municipal solid waste — biomass incineration — landfill gas — anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge — large and small hydro — micro hydro — coal

Three new sludge - to - energy projects in Beijing were initiated in the last year, serving 4.5 million people and producing 136 million kilowatt hours of renewable energy per year, equivalent to avoiding the use of 41,000 metric tonnes (more than 45,000 U.S. tons) of standard coal.

Sludge and coal mining are a bit of a disaster.

In 2008, coal ash flooded into the American psyche when a coal ash dam burst at the Kingston Fossil Plant in Kingston, Tennessee — burying the local environment and community beneath 1.1 billion gallons of toxic sludge, a $ 3 billion clean up job.

The scope of the waste stream coming out of coal - fired power plants is almost unimaginable: hundreds of thousands of tons of air pollution and nearly 280 billion pounds of toxic coal sludge dumped into our environment every year.

Coal, just the sludge is so toxic it can make thousands of acres a wasteland in minutes.

In a 2004 flood, much of Gunnoe's ancestral home was destroyed and her yard was covered in toxic coal sludge.

Coal - burning power plants, for example, produce millions of tons of toxic sludge every year, and we're stilling reeling from the impacts of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon spill that rocked the Gulf of Mexico.

Coal ash is less regulated than household garbage, and there's enough of the sludge to flow through Niagara Falls for over three days straight.

Staring at the noontime sun in a cloudless sky through a thick fog of coal smoke that every building was burning for heat in Beijing, green wiggly things coming out of the water tap in Shanghi, fields where nothing could be grown due to heavy metal sludge in Poland, and let's not forget the Marxist environmental masterpiece of Chernobyl.

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.

SLUDGE DAM Sludge dams represent the greatest threat to nearby communities of any of the impacts of coal mSLUDGE DAM Sludge dams represent the greatest threat to nearby communities of any of the impacts of coal mSludge dams represent the greatest threat to nearby communities of any of the impacts of coal mining.

A sludge dam breach in Martin County, KY, in 2000, sent more than 300 million gallons of toxic coal sludge into tributaries of the Big Sandy, causing what the EPA called, «The biggest environmental disaster ever east of the Mississippi.»

Prospecting, mining, storing, transporting, refining, burning, cleaning up the mess from, fighting wars over, wild price fluctuations, huge military costs for protection, blowing the tops off thousands of mountains or billion gallon coal fly ash sludge spills, or oil spills or nuclear accidents or radioactive waste storage problems, or running out of fuel resources.

The Mother of All Coal Ash Spills: Tennessee's Kingston TVA Coal Plant After the dike of a 40 - acre holding pond broke at Kingston's TVA coal plant in Tennessee, an estimates 525 million gallons to 1 billion gallons of coal ash sludge spilled over the area, covering 400 acres in coal ash about 6 feet deep, destroying a dozen houses and a trCoal Ash Spills: Tennessee's Kingston TVA Coal Plant After the dike of a 40 - acre holding pond broke at Kingston's TVA coal plant in Tennessee, an estimates 525 million gallons to 1 billion gallons of coal ash sludge spilled over the area, covering 400 acres in coal ash about 6 feet deep, destroying a dozen houses and a trCoal Plant After the dike of a 40 - acre holding pond broke at Kingston's TVA coal plant in Tennessee, an estimates 525 million gallons to 1 billion gallons of coal ash sludge spilled over the area, covering 400 acres in coal ash about 6 feet deep, destroying a dozen houses and a trcoal plant in Tennessee, an estimates 525 million gallons to 1 billion gallons of coal ash sludge spilled over the area, covering 400 acres in coal ash about 6 feet deep, destroying a dozen houses and a trcoal ash sludge spilled over the area, covering 400 acres in coal ash about 6 feet deep, destroying a dozen houses and a trcoal ash about 6 feet deep, destroying a dozen houses and a train.

Surface mining has also become a dominant driver of land - use change and water pollution in certain regions of the world, where mountaintop removal, coal and tar sands exploitation, and other open pit mining methods strip land surfaces of forests and topsoils, produce vast quantities of toxic sludge and solid waste, and often fill valleys, rivers, and streams with the resulting waste and debris [81].

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But the prospect of another coal ash spill covering hundreds of acres with toxic sludge is enough to keep anyone concerned.