Meanwhile, the whole state is tying itself up in knots over this coal ash business. There’s tons of it laying around in ponds and in obsolete energy facilities. The latest plan seems to be to bury it near the airport in Charlotte — which is said to be better than storing it in unlined ponds.
“The reality is, it’s much better than the way they store it at the power plant,” said Hartwell Carson, the French Broad riverkeeper. He and other environmental groups have been monitoring the project to take millions of tons of coal ash from a Duke Energy power plant and use it as a “structural fill” material to grade land in preparation for construction. “I don’t have a lot of concerns about it in the short term,” Carson said. “Fifty, 100 years from now? I’d say all bets are off.”
Your great-grandchildren send their regards.
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