A photographer from Banner Elk flew over the site of the fly ash spill in Tennessee and sent the pictures and write up to the folks at the Freakonomics blog. You can see the pictures and read her comments here. This is scary stuff:
Three days earlier, a retention pond for fly ash (a waste product from burning coal) burst in Kingston, Tenn., spilling an estimated 1 billion gallons of sludge containing years’ worth of waste from the Tennessee Valley Authority’s adjacent coal-burning power plant over an area of 300 acres, Griffith explains.
And you might recall that we have an operation similar to the TVA's here in the Triad
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