For property rights and clean water, you don’t want coal ash seeping through groundwater, so please contact your state legislator to support the two coal ash bills now in the Georgia House of Representatives:
HB 879,
“Water resources; notice to local governing authorities prior to the dewatering of coal combustion residual surface impoundments; provide”
Georgia Power is retiring many coal plants (good, although they’re
mmostly replacing them with natural gas plants; not so good),
and this involves dewatering coal ash ponds near those plants;
HB 880,
“Solid waste management; safe disposal of coal ash in municipal and commercial solid waste landfills; provisions”
Georgia Power wants to ship that coal ash to local landfills.
Georgia Water Coalition’s policy on that I think is OK with
appropriate regulation.
WWALS goes beyond that and says no coal ash in landfills in the
Suwannee River Basin.
Please call or write:
your Georgia state representative.
Thanks to the six bill sponsors, but none are in the Suwannee River Basin.
Let’s see if we can fix that. Continue reading
