Duke Energy spokeswoman Paige Sheehan said the utility doesn’t believe the breach poses a significant threat of increased flooding to nearby communities.
Other overblown threats to public health, according to Sheehan, are lead and arsenic in water, nuclear radiation, tainted foods, especially those contaminated with E. coli, and, most importantly, any toxins released by any Duke Energy operations.
“People make too much of threats to their health,” she said. "Heck, when I was a child my mother mixed my formula with raw sewage and you can see how I turned out.
“The only threat the public really needs to concern themselves with at this time is the health of Duke Energy’s stock price which could potentially effect a lot of beleaguered investors’ portfolios.”
No worries…Scott Pruitt’s replacement will get right on it. Uh…not really.
“The only threat the public really needs to concern themselves with at this time is the health of Duke Energy’s stock price which could potentially effect a lot of beleaguered investors’ portfolios.”
Won’t somebody think of the poor BoDs and CoBs out there? Just trying to make an honest living on clean coal to send their children to rapey prep schools.
I guess since the coal ash -oh, excuse me - coal combustion byproducts isn’t going to raise the river levels you could techically claim it won’t make the flood extent worse. It will however, worsen the impacts of said flooding.
Curious that when on land, the substance is coal ash, but when it leaks into the water supply, it transmutates into “muck”.
new republican campaign bumper sticker:
Ash Me About My Chronically Ill Grandchildren!
My non-taxable financial products aren’t toxic - but your coal by-products are - Thanks Trump!
1,000 likes, Ms t
silly bird, if you woke up with a boat in your backyard you’d get to keep it, due to the law of the briny deep.
now if you woke up with an oil well in your backyard, you wouldn’t complain would you?
now imagine your yard covered with coal by - product - from which they make other useful things like plastics and dyes
- and bingo! you’re rich
Just like reporting on democratic wrongdoing is steadfast journalism, and reporting on republican wrongdoing is muckraking.
Duke Energy spokeswoman Paige Sheehan said “Coal ash? Coal ash does a body good!”
Gray muck is flowing into the Cape Fear River from the site of a dam breach at a Wilmington power plant where an old coal ash dump had been covered over by Florence’s floodwaters.
Blatant liberal media bias.
This is what honest, objective reporting looks like:
Duke Energy, in cooperation with North Carolina environmental officials, brought a little joy to flood-weary Tarheels by staging a decorative Freedom Flow near Duke’s Wilmington power plant.
Duke Energy spokeswoman Paige Sheehan said the utility doesn’t believe the breach poses a significant threat of increased flooding to nearby communities.
That’s very reassuring, because when my front yard is under four get of water and I hear “mercury, lead, arsenic and other toxic heavy metals,” my biggest fear is that it will result in four-and-a-half feet of water in the yard.
Not to worry!
Coal ash has been classified as harmless, one of the last re-evaluations spruitt pulled out before he left.
No problem. Duke Energy’s coal ash is clean just like the lead in Flint, Michigan’s drinking water.
I’ll contribute to a Go Fund Me campaign to send bottled water to all residents of the NC disaster zone who will certify that they did not vote for any Republican in 2016.
Well I am so glad POTUS is pushing coal that is so clean, I mean… this stuff… you wouldn’t believe how clean it is, believe me… and not that dumb solar and wind stuff. I mean, come on! What kind of power does wind really have to offer? And solar? The sun’s all the way up there! You’ll never get that stuff down here.