Duke Energy: Don't Air NC Toxicologist's Coal Ash Testimony

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Duke Energy: Don't Air NC Toxicologist's Coal Ash Testimony

By EMERY P. DALESIO, ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH, N.C. — Jul 19, 2016, 7:18 PM ET

Duke Energy Corp. lawyers want to block sworn testimony by a North Carolina toxicologist who warned last year that neighbors of Duke Energy coal ash pits shouldn't drink their well water for their own health.

Duke lawyers on Tuesday asked a federal judge to bar the public release of Kenneth Rudo's deposition in a lawsuit by environmental groups. Those groups allege pollutants are seeping from coal ash pits into groundwater below Duke Energy's power plant near Salisbury.

Environmental lawyers want to know why Gov. Pat McCrory's appointees in March reversed the do-not-drink recommendation. State officials said they got new information and reconsidered the risk presented by heavy metals in the well water.

A Duke Energy spokeswoman says Rudo's testimony is incomplete and opposing lawyers are trying to manipulate the public.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/duke-energy-air-nc-toxicologists-coal-ash-testimony-40715120

[appal_jack]

1. K&R for awareness that people are being deliberately poisoned in NC

McCrory & executives at his former employer are murderous criminals.

-app

[mopinko]

2. why we arent mining this shit is one of my pet peeves.

we are grinding up boulders to get some of these metals. why are be not just extracting them rom this ash?
i know, i know, the answer is that the people doing the mining like their little companies and want to keep them just like they are. but jesus people.