Last year we had a very large ash spill from abandon holding ponds that belonged to Duke power. These pond were supposed to have been cleaned up years ago but the NC. state legislators kept giving Duke extensions. If you don't believe coal ash is toxic, spread some on your pasture or lawn and see what happens. They were lucky on this spill that it didn't shut down every town water supply from Danville va. to the east coast of NC.
We have one clean power plant burning coal. Never see smoke. Just vapor/steam out the stack. Clover Power Station has the distinction of being one of the cleanest coal-fired power stations in the nation. $1.2 billion of the cost to build was environmental. Got new NG plants being built now and new gas lines being built also. They don't need the $1.2 billion spent to make them clean.
We now have 3 wood burning power stations operating. They use the by products of timber cutting. Nearly all loggers now have chippers to supply these power stations and it pays very well. Timber is big in my area. 3 osb mills in 60 miles of rt. 501 and those wood burning power plants are within 40 miles of each other. Farmers get the wood ash for crop and grass for cattle. Can't beat the combination of wood ash and chicken litter for grass and hay. Guys that use wood ash have 50- 60 bu. yields on soy beans now. That just about double what it was before the ash.
I hate for folks to lose jobs over coal but I also hated to see folks lose jobs over tobacco being killed. We had to change. The country will have to change as well.
I'm happy to see so many here understand the difference in coal and NG. I've worked with both as a fuel. I much prefer NG any day.
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