A BILLION gallons! That's a whole helluva lot of icky, sticky, poisonous goo. Have you heard about this? Maybe I've been sick and out of touch, but I've heard barely a peep about this incident which happened a few days ago near Knoxville, Tennessee. A pond to hold coal ash burst, sending all the goo flowing over hundreds of acres of land. People had to be evacuated and a few homes were destroyed. It's like "The Blob!"And to think this is the end-result of all that nice, warm, convenient electricity we use. How are they going to clean up this mess? What about the people who lost their homes? What about the environmental impact on the area? No one's talking about this. Instead, we're inundated with reports of people falling overboard from cruise ships, "Barack the Magic Negro" and other piffle. Sorry--those stories may have some merit, but this coal thing affects ALL of us.
And so much for "clean" coal.
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