<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Tennessee coal ash spill contains high levels of toxic heavy metals]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by wesrolley http://www.grist.org/article/More-clean-coal/ Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:57:45 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/More-clean-coal/1 Barium scares me

While many are made uncomfortable about the presence of arsenic or lead, the presence of such high levels of barium scares me precisely because it is not widely recognized as a toxic source. I am a potter and have had reason to experiment with barium as a component of a glaze.  Barium oxide and barium carbonate are soluble in water.  Barium sulfate is not.  You even are given barium sulfate in some medical tests.  There are strong warnings to potters about using barium in glazes because it could leach from the glaze with acid foods..e.g. tomatoes.  I even had to dispose of unused glaze materials on a special household chemical disposal day. See this article by a Canadian environmental hazard professional (and also a potter).

Wes Rolley CoChair - EcoAction Committee Green Party US

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While many are made uncomfortable about the presence of arsenic or lead, the presence of such high levels of barium scares me precisely because it is not widely recognized as a toxic source. I am a potter and have had reason to experiment with barium as a component of a glaze.  Barium oxide and barium carbonate are soluble in water.  Barium sulfate is not.  You even are given barium sulfate in some medical tests.  There are strong warnings to potters about using barium in glazes because it could leach from the glaze with acid foods..e.g. tomatoes.  I even had to dispose of unused glaze materials on a special household chemical disposal day. See this article by a Canadian environmental hazard professional (and also a potter).

Wes Rolley CoChair - EcoAction Committee Green Party US

]]> Comment #2 by amazingdrx http://www.grist.org/article/More-clean-coal/ Fri, 02 Jan 2009 01:01:52 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/More-clean-coal/2 Seriously

If terrorists were releasing this level of toxins into our water wouldn't there be immediate arrests and incarceration?

Under bush administration anti-constitutional tactics they would be declared "enemy combatants" and sequestered in foreign torture compounds like gitmo, or the other secret prisons or foreign rendition torture cells in nations who torture for the bush regime.

And yet no one will ever be held accountable for this.  Corporate officers will golden parachute their way to a happy retirement anyway, even if this criminal contamination were addressed by government.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

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If terrorists were releasing this level of toxins into our water wouldn't there be immediate arrests and incarceration?

Under bush administration anti-constitutional tactics they would be declared "enemy combatants" and sequestered in foreign torture compounds like gitmo, or the other secret prisons or foreign rendition torture cells in nations who torture for the bush regime.

And yet no one will ever be held accountable for this.  Corporate officers will golden parachute their way to a happy retirement anyway, even if this criminal contamination were addressed by government.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

]]> Comment #3 by archigeek http://www.grist.org/article/More-clean-coal/ Fri, 02 Jan 2009 03:30:09 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/More-clean-coal/3 yep

Government of the people, my ass. Follow the money into the hands of our elected and appointed representatives. Campaign contributions aren't bribes? HA!

The mellotron is your friend.

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Government of the people, my ass. Follow the money into the hands of our elected and appointed representatives. Campaign contributions aren't bribes? HA!

The mellotron is your friend.

]]> Comment #4 by Pompey Road http://www.grist.org/article/More-clean-coal/ Sat, 03 Jan 2009 02:32:47 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/More-clean-coal/4 Corpocracy:

Government of the people, Ha! We have not had a representative style government in decades, that has been relegated to the dust bin of history. Now we are finding cash in freezers and the revolving door from government to lobbyist makes a stark statement about the shadow proxy corporate government we are now living under. From the deregulation of wall street and banking to the tax breaks for taking jobs and production overseas. They corporate lobbyist hand can be seen in about all legislation. Who among us would think it was a good idea to not let the government bid on prescription drugs for the medicare prescription drug program. The cost of that program would have been cut in half if the pharmaceutical companies had allowed competitive bidding.
   George Bush' latest midnight rule change to EPA concerning streams and in fact the weakening of the 1977 Surface Mining Act to allow MTR has coal corporation lobbyist hands all over it.

Of the Corporation, by the Corporation and for the Corporation. 14,000 registered lobbyist roaming the halls of government ursurp the will of the people.

If lobby reform is not the first thing tackled by Obama the rest of his agenda is doomed to failured.

The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.


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Government of the people, Ha! We have not had a representative style government in decades, that has been relegated to the dust bin of history. Now we are finding cash in freezers and the revolving door from government to lobbyist makes a stark statement about the shadow proxy corporate government we are now living under. From the deregulation of wall street and banking to the tax breaks for taking jobs and production overseas. They corporate lobbyist hand can be seen in about all legislation. Who among us would think it was a good idea to not let the government bid on prescription drugs for the medicare prescription drug program. The cost of that program would have been cut in half if the pharmaceutical companies had allowed competitive bidding.
   George Bush' latest midnight rule change to EPA concerning streams and in fact the weakening of the 1977 Surface Mining Act to allow MTR has coal corporation lobbyist hands all over it.

Of the Corporation, by the Corporation and for the Corporation. 14,000 registered lobbyist roaming the halls of government ursurp the will of the people.

If lobby reform is not the first thing tackled by Obama the rest of his agenda is doomed to failured.

The eons of time and nature was good to us down here. It was not until we become civilized that destroying our habitat become fathomable or fashionable.


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