An aspect of coal energy that we might have overlooked is now being kept under wraps at the highest levels of government.
The Huffington Post reported that ash from coal plants is being dumped at over 40 sites around the USA and those sites are not public knowledge.
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.1
The Head of the Department of Homeland security has been told not to discuss the locations. Here is what she was able to say:
There are several hundred coal ash piles across the nation, she said, all of them unregulated.
“If these coal ash piles were to fail they’d pose a threat to the people nearby,” she said. While keeping it from the public, DHS is alerting first responders as to the location of the piles. 1
Thankfully, she also thinks people should know where these toxic dumps are located so the public can make their government clean up the mess and regulate the disposal of such poisonous byproduct from coal burning.
Bottom line: coal is not clean energy. We should continue to focus on renewable energies like wind, solar and tide. These are forms of energy than can be used by individual homes and businesses. They are 100% renewable with no byproducts to dump secretly in American neighborhoods.
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