Comment: The problems with coal cannot be controlled, what will uranium mining produce, the same problems but 100 x more dangerous!
By DENNIS WEBB/The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
The owner of a Somerset coal mine has agreed to pay a $16,805 fine as part of a settlement with the state regarding violations of water pollution laws.
The fine is part of a consent order executed between the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s Water Quality Control Division and Mountain Coal Co., owner of the West Elk Mine.
According to the settlement, the mine exceeded pollution limits several times between 2005 and 2008. Iron and levels of suspended solids were among areas above state standards.
The company also failed several tests of overall toxicity of its water discharges to aquatic life, but all but one failure turned out to result from improper testing protocols.
The agreement says Mountain Coal also failed to provide timely, accurate and/or complete discharge monitoring reports, didn’t submit required stormwater management plan annual reports from 2005 to 2007 and didn’t comply with requirements for a materials containment plan.
Read more:
http://www.gjsentinel.com/hp/content/news/stories/2009/12/22/122309_5a_Somerset_Mine.html
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We do not want more Nuclear Power in VA, nuke power is not green or clean, starts with uranium mining to nuke rods which last 4ever!
The General wording allows for a lack of transparency and public accountability, and that that may have been deliberately written into the bill to give VNECA unchecked powers, including the authority and power to promote and expand cradle to grave nuclear industries using taxpayer’s monies for grants.
SB 1138 Virginia Nuclear Energy Consortium Authority;
Introduced by: Jeffrey L. McWaters
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