Wednesday, November 5, 2014 6:45pm
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Coal Ash Pollution in North Carolina: A Fish and Wildlife Perspective
A. Dennis Lemly
USDA-Forest Service and Wake Forest University
The coal and electric utility industry spends millions on advertising campaigns each year in an attempt to persuade the public that coal has somehow become clean and that a wave of new technology has made it that way. Despite this “green and clean” message, the truth is that coal mining, combustion, and waste disposal are some of the most pollution-intensive human activities. Toxic impacts to fish and wildlife are pervasive and they occur at all points in the coal cycle from “cradle to grave”, mine to ash. Moreover, poor regulatory controls have allowed this pattern of toxicity to persist largely unchanged for decades. My presentation unveils the myth of clean coal in North Carolina by showing case examples of the pollution and environmental damage, the toxic impacts to fish and wildlife, and the billions in economic losses that have resulted since 1970. Not a single clean coal power plant or mine exists in North Carolina or the USA today.
This meeting will also be available over the Internet at http://flash.uncw.edu/live/.
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