Now Erin Brockovich has gotten involved. Because it’s the largest environmental disaster ever.
You’ll want to watch this.
Kentucky’s got more of these ash ponds than any other state. Including one right outside of Louisville.
But folks like Daniel Mongiardo want this crap to happen in Kentucky – even after the disaster. Why do we say they want it to happen? Because they do jack to turn things around and work 24/7 on behalf of coal companies’ rights to do just that. (We’re not against coal – just outdated practices that mountaintop removal.)
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1 johnny masters // Jul 14, 2009 at 1:26 am
Now all that Kingston garbage is going to be shipped in Ghent KY, a.k.a. Cancer Valley, in a new 600 acre sludge pond. That’s great. Now we get extra flavoring in our kool-aid: arsenic.
2 Sheree Krider // Aug 7, 2009 at 6:56 pm
I live in Louisville KY and am fear of my life for reason of the Coal Ash Pond belongs to Louisville Gas & Electric, (an E-ON Co.,) which sits in the southwest part of Jefferson County.
People who live in the area die from Cancer every day – or at least that is what they are calling it. I have been thinking that along with the Cancer that severe lung infections are occurring which are causing death’s also.
Anyone who lives in any part of Louisville has upper respiratory problems. Of course we are all diagnosed with COPD and it is always attributed to our lifestyle, i.e., smoking.
But I have had a couple of Doctors who admitted to me that the town had “bad air”.
I have lost one family member at the age of 51 and almost lost her husband. My father in law also died of lung disease, and all the children have ear problems and chronic bronchitis.
Other family members are suffering from severe “COPD” and I am sincerely worried about them dying young also. They all live
in the southwest area and cannot afford to relocate.
I myself have considered moving out of Kentucky altogether for this very reason.
If we ever have a major earthquake the coal ash ponds will cover us up like sewage.
Why does Kentucky have to have so many of these “ponds”?
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