Press Mention Daily Kos February 18, 2014
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Second Coal Ash Dump in North Carolina
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A Daily Kos article reports on a second coal ash spill in North Carolina from Duke Energy, highlighting Governor Pat McCrory's financial ties to the company. The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy is cited for its analysis debunking the viability of clean coal technology, arguing that despite industry investment, clean coal remains commercially unviable and coal-fired power plants continue to cause environmental damage.
Like the wildly imaginable (but ultimately fanciful) Chimera of Greek mythology, clean coal has remained an unrealized fantasy of the coal industry. One of the key issues involved in the carbon debate is whether or not "clean coal" technology is currently a viable and realistic option for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from existing coal-fired power plants. Even the company currently constructing the nation's only carbon capture plant, Southern Company, claims that the technology is not yet commercially viable. To date, efforts to develop so-called clean coal technologies have failed to deliver and we continue to suffer the negative impacts of dirty coal-fired power plants.
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