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To: Poet who wrote (11227)	1/9/2009 11:33:51 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33421

The problem with the fly ash spill isn't whether the fly ash itself is hazardous, it is the location. It has trace amounts of the heavy metals....as do human bodies for that matter. but this is what got me most: She and several other committee members said they would press for new coal ash regulations, including a requirement that it be stored in lined pits and dried out so that it could not cascade into towns and rivers. The reason fly ash is stored wet is so that it doesn't dry up and get spread around as an airborne pollutant. If she wants to store it dried out, why not just let the stuff go up the stack and into the atmosphere so as to avoid future spills. This is what I mean by uninformed. Barbara Boxer's kneejerk reaction to one mishap goes right back to putting the fly ash in the air. Guess what people, shit happens. There are always going to be accidents. We can't bubble wrap our entire society. They have had ONE fly ash spill. Nobody died!!!! It was an error in location. Fix it and move on. The only reason this is a political focus is because of the lunatic fringe greenies.