Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 2014 Dan River coal ash spill occurred in February 2014, when an Eden, North Carolina facility owned by Duke Energy spilled 39,000 tons of coal ash into the Dan River. The company later pled guilty to criminal negligence in their handling of coal ash at Eden and elsewhere and paid fines of over $5 million.
The coal ash came from two storage areas owned and operated by Duke Energy. Contaminants from the coal ash may have leached into the water source but long term testing has yet to be done by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency or other environmental agencies. Clean up efforts were led by Duke Energy and mostly consisted of skimming the coal ...
Mar. 15—Duke Energy continues efforts to close coal ash ponds, or basins, at its former Wabash River Generating Station along the Wabash River, according to a utility spokeswoman. The work ...
Coal ash in India has been stored in ash ponds and has contaminated surrounding land and water bodies. [6] In the United States approximately 110 million tons of coal ash were generated in 2012. [1] More than half of the coal ash produced in the US was dumped into ash ponds (surface impoundments; wet disposal) or landfills (dry disposal). [5]
The pond where Minnesota Power was taking water was used between 1980 and 2015 to dispose of fly ash, or fine particles that are carried by the flue gases in a plant.
Millions of tons of coal ash remain at Duke Energy's Sutton Plant north of Wilmington. Here's why that might not be a major problem. Duke's Sutton coal plant closed in 2013, but most of the ash is ...
The Kingston Fossil Plant Spill was an environmental and industrial disaster that occurred on December 22, 2008, when a dike ruptured at a coal ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 billion US gallons (4.2 million cubic metres) of coal fly ash slurry.
Duke Energy was also ordered to close all of its 32 ash ponds in the state of North Carolina by 2029. [ 73 ] In September 2016, the Government Pension Fund of Norway , then worth $900 billion, excluded Duke Energy and its subsidiaries from the fund, citing "risk of severe environmental damage".