EPA Lists ‘High Hazard’ Coal Ash Dumps
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- EPA Lists ‘High Hazard’ Coal Ash Dumps
- 4 landfills in Tenn. approved for coal ash test
- $308 Million Designated for Green Power Plant — but Will It Be Built?
EPA Lists ‘High Hazard’ Coal Ash Dumps
New York Times
The “high hazard” rating applied to sites where a dam failure would most likely result in a loss of human life the environmental agency advisory said but did not assess the structural integrity of the dam or its likelihood of failure. The list released late on Monday was compiled as part of the agency’s inventory of coal ash sites after more than a billion gallons of ash broke through a dam at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant west of Knoxville last December. An engineering analysis of the failure released last week cited design problems like the height of the ash among other factors. Coal ash contains toxic materials like lead arsenic selenium and thallium and such sites have been known to contaminate drinking and surface water. The list identifies disposal sites in 10 states including 12 in North Carolina 9 in Arizona and 7 in Kentucky. There were no Tennessee Valley Authority sites on the list.
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4 landfills in Tenn. approved for coal ash test
Forbes
– State environmental authorities have granted the Tennessee Valley Authority approval to use four East Tennessee landfills as test sites for coal ash disposal though the agency has no current plans to do so. The nation’s largest public utility is in the process of determining how to dispose of more than 5 million cubic yards of coal ash that breached an earthen dike last Dec. 22 at its Kingston.
$308 Million Designated for Green Power Plant — but Will It Be Built?
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
The roughly $2 billion project would create up to 1500 construction jobs as many as 100 permanent jobs and enough energy to power more than 150000 homes. Partners behind the project — energy giant BP and mineral company Rio Tinto — have made no decision on whether to build the plant which would not begin operation until late 2014 at the soonest. Until such a decision is made likely late next year or early 2011 the project is undergoing engineering design and other pre-construction work. A spokeswoman for the partnership Hydrogen Energy International said the Department of Energy dollars would be doled out as the power plant reaches various milestones. That should help get the project going she said. “I think the real value in this type of grant is that it’s pre-operation” spokeswoman Tiffany Rau said. If built the plant is expected to generate $5 million in one-time tax revenues and $1 million in annual tax revenues.
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