Everyone wants to see coal ash go away. But just where it
might go when Duke Energy begins cleaning up its 14 sites in North Carolina remains unknown.
The general discussion is that it will be shipped off to
lined and covered landfills somewhere. But on Monday, the Blue Ridge
Environmental Defense League issued a report saying that’s a bad idea.
What that group would like to see happen is for the coal ash
to remain on the utility company’s property and put in concrete vaults above
ground, mixed with cement and slag that hardens after it’s pumped inside.
The technology was developed by the U.S. Department of
Energy and has been in use at the Savannah River Site in Georgia, and has been in operation
since 1990. The technology has been around for decades, the group says.
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