The Spill At Dan River In North Carolina Included Cancerous Toxins Such As Arsenic In Drinking And Fishing Water (Video)

Profits Ahead Of People

CBS News program “60 Minutes” aired a segment on Duke Energy and the company’s poor coal ash removal practices currently contaminating drinking and fishing waters in select U.S. states. The most damage has been done in north Carolina, where toxic items such as arsenic have been discovered in drinking and fishing water adjacent to Duke’s plants and their coal ash ponds. The ponds were never lined which has resulted in the coal ash contaminating soil and nearby drinking water.

Lynn Wood of Duke Energy being interviewed by Lesley Stahl of investigative news show "60 Minutes"

It is important that drinking and fishing water be kept to the highest standards of purity, as contamination with coal ash and by products such as arsenic, is cancerous. This is a prime example of corporation putting profits ahead of people. Initial government fines Duke Energy was assessed were paltry, totaling approximately $100,000. The most recent fines are approximately $100,000,000. However, it is not enough money to clean up the environmental damage that has been done.

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The Spill at Dan River 

2015 Jun 14 - Lesley Stahl reports on how Duke Energy is handling over 100 million tons of coal ash waste in North Carolina. The following is a script from "The Spill at Dan River" which aired on Dec. 7, 2014, and was rebroadcast on June 14, 2015. Lesley Stahl is the correspondent. Shachar Bar-On, producer.

Every year coal-burning power plants generate not only electricity but a staggering amount of leftover coal ash that contains heavy metals unhealthy to humans. Yet due in part to intense industry lobbying, oversight over disposal has been largely left in the hands of state officials and employees, who are often beholden to the powerful, local utility companies.

For decades coal ash was just dumped into giant pits dug by rivers and lakes, where toxins could leach into nearby water and soil. There are over 1,000 ash pits or ponds dotting the nation, many of them old, poorly monitored, all but forgotten. But as we first reported back in December, every few years we are reminded that this can lead to disaster like the coal-ash spill in February last year into North Carolina's Dan River at a power plant owned by Duke Energy, the biggest utility company in the country.

The spill at Dan River happened when a drainage pipe that ran underneath an ash basin and dam, collapsed, sucking out six decades of waste and spewing gunk directly into the river. Lynn Good: It was an accident. It didn't work the way it should have worked. It didn't meet our standards or our expectations. Duke Energy CEO Lynn Good, then only seven months on the job, had a crisis on her hands...

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This T-Shirt Is Just Plain Wrong

T-shirt with marijuana plant mocking the "green" environmental craze

So many people in society, from U.S. President Barack Obama to Hollywood, have been wrapped up in the "green" phenomenon, regarding environmentally safe choices in products. "Green" has become an it word.

Barack Obama smoking weed in university

However, isn't it ironic that both President Obama and his constituents in Chicago Hollywood have also been taken with that other kind of green, also know as weed (marijuana). I'm just teasing (even if it is true).

The Arkansas Dead Fish And Bird Mystery

Dead black bird

The mystery of 5,000 dead black birds and 100,000 deceased drum fish in the U.S. State of Arkansas is quite suspicious. The animals were brutally killed and in large numbers. Why was it only one species of bird and fish were targeted. It lends the appearance of an experiment. Could it be that unit within the CIA that does what it pleases.

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New Year's Surprise: 4000 Dead Blackbirds

Space Pollution

The race for space tourism has opened opportunities, but created cosmic environmental issues as well. As companies have been granted licenses for space tourism, so increases the probability of pollution in the cosmos.

Individuals not only seek to set up colonies in space, creating pollution and disturbing the natural balance of the universe, some seek to engage in exploration that sounds environmentally risky. After witnessing the environmental abuse earth has taken at modern mankind's hand, it would be a disgrace if the same transpired in space. We've already messed up earth, do we really need to mess up space as well. Rules need to be drafted.

Gunman Killed Taking Over The Discovery Channel

A mentally ill armed man, James Jay Lee, was shot and killed by police, as he tried to take over the Discovery Channel building. Lee, an environmentalist, was previously ordered to a psych ward, but was released after two weeks, as doctors deemed he was mentally fit. That story sounds familiar (see Lindsay Lohan).

Lee took three hostages in the Discovery Channel's headquarters, demanding they air programming about population control, as he believed the planet would be better off without people, leaving animals to roam freely. It is important to take care of the world God gave us, but sometimes environmentalists go too far.

Obama Cautious Over BP Well Cap

U.S. President Barack Obama has expressed caution over news BP has capped the oil well that has been leaking off the coast of Louisiana, in the Gulf of Mexico. The cap has held for the past two days, but additional tests are being conducted.

BP Caps Leaking Oil Well

BP oil well is capped

BP has announced they've capped the leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, which has polluted the beaches and coast off Louisiana in America. The well has been spewing oil into the ocean for months, in the worst spill in U.S. history.

Barack Obama

This will be welcome news to U.S. President Barack Obama, who has been roundly criticized in America, for not doing enough to address the crisis that spiraled out of control, damaging the environment and economy.

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BP says new cap on well fully closed, no oil going into Gulf

Obama Slammed For Leisure Activities During Spill

President Barack Obama

U.S. President Barack Obama is being slammed for going golfing, while the unprecedented BP spill continues to spew millions of gallons of oil into the ocean, destroying the environment and businesses in Louisiana.

A few months ago, papers noted Obama has taken more vacation time than any other President in U.S. history, just a year and a half into his troubled and turbulent presidency.

Cleaning Oil Soiled Sand

A great company called Clean Beach Technologies, run by Tony Watson (CEO) and Gary Stevenson (President), is utilizing a clever way to address the Louisiana oil spill that occurred in the Gulf Of Mexico.

The company uses trucks, massive containers and biodegradable materials to clean the oil soiled sand, then returning it to the beach after 12 hours. They have labeled the process a "reclamation of the beach."

Obama To Meet With BP

U.S. President Barack Obama

U.S. President Barack Obama is slated to meet with BP for the first time this week, in reference to the oil spill that occurred in the waters off the state of Louisiana in America. The President has been slammed in the press for his handling of the crisis, with many demanding he do more.

The Judiciary Report is of the belief, all involved should be held accountable, as that is the nature of liability law. BP is shouldering all the blame for work they outsourced to Halliburton and Transocean, who have been silent during this environmental disaster, is not just.

Both companies are quite wealthy and should pay their fair share in damages as well, as they oversaw the drilling and implementation of the well that has sprung an unprecedented leak, polluting the ocean.

WRAPUP 1-Obama leadership on BP spill faces testing week

Mon Jun 14, 2010 12:31am EDT - WASHINGTON/LONDON, June 14 (Reuters) - Barack Obama's leadership of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill faces key tests this week as the U.S. president gives his first national address on the disaster and meets top BP (BP.L) (BP.N) executives for the first time...

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Obama Curses On TV Over BP

U.S. President Barack Obama

U.S. President Barack Obama, who was clearly offended this morning, cursed on the NBC "Today Show" regarding people slamming his response to the BP oil spill, as inadequate and worst than the government's poor reaction to 2005's Hurricane Katrina, in the same region.

The President bitterly complained he was in Louisiana in the rain a month ago, speaking with fishermen about the potential the spill possessed of being a terrible crisis.

Barack Obama: don't make me get ghetto!

As he grew more angry Obama stated, "I don't just sit around talking to experts because this is a college seminar. We talked to these folks, because they potentially had the best answers, so I'd know whose as* to kick."

Obama also slammed BP's CEO for stating "I want my life back." The President stated, "(Tony) Hayward wouldn't be working for me after making such a comment."

Oil Spill To Continue Until Christmas

Merry Christmas from BP, Transocean and Halliburton! Reports indicate the oil spill off the coast of Louisiana in America, may run until Christmas. Yes, that's right, Christmas.

The environmental and economical fall out from this leak seems to grow worse by the day. Not enough is being done to address the damage and it is distressing to many. Everything that can be done is not being done.

All that beautiful ocean and wildlife being destroyed is sad. BP and co are essentially fighting against the force of the earth, buried deep below the surface. More studies should have been done, before such a risky endeavor was undertaken, at such depths of the sea.

Obama Visits Louisiana Oil Spill Site

U.S. President Barack Obama (center)

After taking a battering yesterday during a White House press conference and in various publications, for not doing enough during the Louisiana oil spill, which has been dubbed his "Hurricane Katrina," U.S. President Barack Obama, flew to the region today to view the damage.

Thus far, the "top kill" solution utilized by BP, Transocean and Halliburton, in an effort to plug the gushing oil well, located an unprecedented 5,000 feet below the sea, via pumping it with mud and tough debris, has not been ruled successful. However, efforts are ongoing.

The damage to wildlife and the ocean, is rather regrettable. One cannot help but be sad viewing the damage to our environment that is spreading in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic.

By all appearances, the oil companies did not wish for this to happen, as it seems to be an accident. It has surpassed the Exxon Valdez oil spill in scale and financial damage.