Time to haul ash? Kick a little ash, too?
... about the runaway Tennessee coal ash.
... calls for federal regulation.
... over 100 other American coal-buring plants with similar coal ash mounds just waiting to be levelled by unforeseen but perhaps inevitable cirucmstance. There are over 1300 currently used and dormant ash mounds in the U.S. Currently there’s no federal regulation of the waste from coal-fired powerplants unless there is a mine on the site as well.
We’ve known about this ash problem for decades.
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... pointing out 100-million tons of coal ash are produced annually in the U.S.
The coal interests claim it is not dangerous.
Question: Does Maxam still has rights to the coal ash technology it initially developed, and then transfered to Xcentia?
Press Release Source: Maxam Gold Corporation
EAST PEORIA, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2006--Maxam Gold Corporation (Maxam) President / CEO Richard G. Steeves is pleased to provide an update on the commercialization of the Xcentia/Maxam process.
Completed on time and within budget, the Xcentia/Maxam laboratory, located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, became fully operational on November 30, 2005. From early December to date, Ish Grewal, Xcentia's Metallurgical Process Engineer, successfully performed approximately 12 metal leaching /metal extraction test sequences on representative coal ash samples. This testing not only accomplished the new lab prove-out for coal ash but also provided baseline results for the two interested companies... |
