We learn from HuffPo reporter Ryan “It’s Getting Grim” Grim that these coal ash impoundments are toxic.
“How toxic are they?”
So toxic, so dangerous, that an enemy of the United States could easily cause them to spill out and lay waste to any area nearby.
Massey Energy of Richmond, Virginia has built a coal waste impoundment directly above Marsh Fork Elementary School. A March, 2007 protest against Marsh Fork impoundment by Mountain Justice members in the governor’s office resulted in 14 arrests.
And, because the coal ash situation has become so bad, “the Department of Homeland Security has told Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) that her committee can't publicly disclose the location of coal ash dumps across the country.”
There are 44 sites deemed by the Environmental Protection Agency to be high hazard, but Boxer said she isn't allowed to talk about them other than to senators in the states affected. “There is a huge muzzle on me and my staff,” she said.
“Homeland Security and the Army Corps [of Engineers] have decided in the interests of national security they can't make these sites known,” she said.
There are several hundred coal ash piles across the nation, she said, all of them unregulated.
Of course, the logical next step would be to arrest any protestors at such sites because they disclose the location. And, those arrested probably should be kept from spilling the beans, a.k.a. Gitmo or the “S-21 de jure“ Bound. Oh, and medical reports about the incidence of certain diseases probably should be censored to prevent untoward detection. Et cetera.
You get the picture. Nothing to talk about here, citizen. Move along.
