Yeah – this is the “clean coal” they boast about:
{[}]lt;p>Let’s see how the “clean coal” PR hucksters at the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity try to spin this tragic news: a retention pond holding toxic coal ash slurry burst Monday in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing over half a billion gallons of potentially toxic sludge that swept into the nearby town of Harriman and contaminated tributaries of the Tennessee River. The resulting flood damaged 15 homes, injured one man as it knocked his house off its foundations, and has left over 400 acres of land covered by several feet of coal ash, mud and contaminated water.
This makes the Exxon-Valdez seem like nothing. It’s also funny how little we are hearing about it on the news. I guess the public doesn’t have the right to know.
(h/t Raw Story)