Coal Ash Spills Too Dangerous To Reveal To Public, Says DHS (VIDEO)

[ensho]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/12/coal-ash-spills-too-dange_n_214739.html


Just how bad has the coal ash situation gotten in the United States? So bad that the Department of Homeland Security has told Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) that her committee can't publicly disclose the location of coal ash dumps across the country.

The pollution is so toxic, so dangerous, that an enemy of the United States -- or a storm or some other disrupting event -- could easily cause them to spill out and lay waste to any area nearby.

There are 44 sites deemed by the Environmental Protection Agency to be high hazard, but Boxer said she isn't allowed to talk about them other than to senators in the states affected. "There is a huge muzzle on me and my staff," she said.

"Homeland Security and the Army Corps have decided in the interests of national security they can't make these sites known," she said.
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scream!

thankfully Barbara will continue to press the issue.

[chill_wind]

1. What?!!!!

[Hoopla Phil]

2. Bullshit! n/t

[Individualist]

3. So much for transparency in government!

That's downright Orwellian.

[dgibby]

4. The question isn't : Where are they located?

That's relatively easy to answer. Wherever there's a coal fired plant, coal mine, mountaintop mining, there will be some type of coal ash container, ie, silo, pond, landfill, etc. A quick google of "coal ash" will garner a great deal of info.

The real question is: What's being done to contain/clean up these sites?

[G_j]

5. transparency.... NOT nt

[loudsue]

6. Yep. I'm still waiting for "change we can believe in".

Rahm Emmanuel et al tells the whole story. The only REAL change is shifting the democrats so far to the corporate right that there will never be a voice for the people again in this country.

[ensho]

7. giving this important issue a kick before I go off line

nt

[cascadiance]

8. Then DAMMIT!! STOP Mountaintop removal strip mining if you REALLY want to solve this problem...

... and the strip mining bastards that are BUYING out this country along with the other corporate thugs to do their bidding while throwing the rest of us down the tubes!

There's NO SUCH THING as "Clean Coal"! It's a frickin' LIE as this BS coverup is showing! All in the name to help their marketing!

[chill_wind]

9. !

[underpants]

10. Why can't I find the video?

:shrug:

[ensho]

11. kicking for today's readers

nt