Watch Part One "Toxic Waste Spill in North Carolina" - bit.ly/1G831lu In the final part of our series, VICE News travels to Pennsylvania, home to the largest coal ash pond in the country, which continues to leak dangerous pollutants out into the community.
I left Greene township in 85. Graduated high school there in 76. These homes that were taken to flood this hollow were people I knew. I hunted in this location. They were building this mess when I left. Hookstown and Georgetown were such nice little rural farm communities. Now it's all just a toxic waste dump. 😢 Any thoughts of ever returning is long gone now.
"It's like putting cookie dough in a strainer, and putting a brick on the cookie dough..." This is the worst analogy I've seen for something in awhile, in a literary sense.
The best way of the coal-ash treatment is to re-use it (so-called re-mining) by extracting the highly-concentrated, though precious elements (like cadmium, thallium, arsenic, uranium, thorium, selenium, nickel, cobalt, vanadium, but especially gallium and to some extent also germanium).
And then this is just a idea form a safer compound or putting them in box that are made of stable elements that are not easy to breack down and then put them back in the mine
It's generally known by the citizens in the area. As dangerous and toxic. Most believe that it is also containing nuclear waste material from the nuclear plant in shipping port.
I grew up in New Brighton, the "glowing blue lake" was like some urban legend when I was growing up. So I looked it up.. they advertised it as a great place to swim and live when they opened up shop.
great article now please do one on how much Waste Green Energy Creates cause there's a big problem with that also in Pennsylvania and other states wind energy created quite a bit of waste that people don't realize I'm quite a bit of harm to nearby communities and they don't give back nearly what they're worth... Also a story about MSR reactors or fluoride reactors would be pretty neat
So long as we like our electric lights, A/C, computers, and modern industry, power plants of one kind or another will have to go somewhere. NIMBY ('not in my back yard') just fucks over the poor and otherwise disenfranchised.
My OP was sarcastic, people on the internet lol i live in Pennsylvania. Our drinking water is under constant assault of being all fracked up. Google Dimmick, PA
Sarcasm is very difficult to convey effectively through bland text without the use of some mechanism akin to 'smileys' or 'emoticons', or special punctuation. There was (and is) nothing in your op to indicate to those unfamiliar with you personally that your intent was sarcasm rather than, say, idiocy. Not that I am intending here to suggest that you're an idiot, only that *we can't tell the difference* in this medium.
When she said “there were some hunters out in the woods and they saw this thing they’ve never seen before” I was expecting her to say Bigfoot or a mutant deer
TheKeilanm The entire evolution of life on this planet is solar powered. Our technology may be lacking, but the source is not. Every time I hear this kind of defeatist propaganda i cringe.
All life on earth, for millions of years, sustained by the sun. "The amount of solar energy that falls on the earth’s surface in 40 minutes equals the total annual energy consumption of all the world’s people." www.txses.org/solar/content/solar-energy-facts-you-should-know If Duke energy could put a meter on the sun and charge us for it, the technology would be far advanced from its current state. Profitability does not equal efficiency,or sustainability, nor is it inherently ethical. Saying that the sun, a star, one of the most POWERFUL forces in the universe, is "inefficient" is illogical bunk.
Giant CosmicSnail I'm with you. The sun is by far our greatest energy source and has a life span longer than the human race will need. It's the perfect solution, which is why it hasn't been used. There's too much money at stake for those who invested in nonrenewable energy sources. If only we could rid them from the planet, I have a feeling our race would suddenly excel in energy production techniques by leaps and bounds.
@@RobertoGreenthumb Nuclear energy, even considering Chernobyl it has still polluted significantly less than coal. And no you won't if the right people get into power, you will not kill our children's future.
In Australia we use a lot of coal ash as a replacement to Portland cement. Which we can utilized to increase our green star rating to new buildings once complete.
So I have a question. Burning coal ash as fuel for electricity by power companies would be reusing that material, but wouldn't you still be emitting some toxins into the air, and wouldn't there still be residue from that re-burnt material that would again need some form of waste management? Interestingly the EPA labels coal ash as a byproduct of coal-based power production containing toxic materials such as arsenic and lead; as non-hazardous waste. Arsenic and lead aren't toxic?! I found this online. "... reports, required by recent regulations, show that polluted groundwater is a widespread problem, with unsafe levels of toxic contaminants linked to more than nine out of every 10 coal-fired power plants with monitoring data, about 91 percent." Is this yet another example of government regulators protecting industry at the sake of the American public's health?
This is the exact reason why im such a big fan of nuclear energy. Its clean, efficient and i believe that in the near future it will be harmless to the enviroment as in they are able to get it back to a safe unactive state.
Coal, oil, nuclear waste are all destroying the planet. 75% of nuclear reactors are leaking in the US. Add to that Fukushima and Chernobyl meltdowns and one can easily argue nuclear is not the answer. A mass die off of species is currently happening in the pacific from Fukushima melt downs.
We need nuclear reactors for one reason: to decimate the human population! The perfect number of humans on this planet would be 500million, so lets see how many we can get rid off. This planet is FUBAR, one way or the other
I used to think so aswell, but drastically changed my point of view after Fukushima. Look at the maps of currents carrying it all around the world(including the Western coast of USA) and it's been 4 years, but when adding up how many times some radioactive materials have to split(Cesium 240 years and Plutonium 200 000 years) you get the whole picture. Add to it the fact that humans are the end-consumers and that we have no safe way of disposing the used fuel rods. watch?v=2FKnSv6U2N8
Can tell how biased this report is when they talk about how lime stone is making things better she calls it simple and goes right back to saying there's a huge problem hat cant be solved you just showed a solution to the problems and then called it too simple.. Meanwhile two thirds of the people need to use coal energy just to watch your biased report... Pennsylvania's wind energy isn't doing any better
Ok, one interesting tidbit that was left out. What happens when rain water runs through naturally occurring coal deposits? Those coal deposits are there whether we use them or not. Do they also leach these same chemicals? Is coal ash more likely to release these elements than naturally occurring coal that is still in the ground whether man uses it or not?
Coal is located deep in the ground below ground water and the ash residue left from burning is a lot like fission products left from nuclear power plants in that they are much more toxic than the original elements they are derived from. If power companies would line the ash ponds with an ample layer of clay then leaching and seepage wouldn t be a problem. This ash contains concentrated levels of toxic substances and when put in areas like this can get in ground water. Uranium has a very long half life which means that it decays very slowly and gives off little radiation in the form of alpha particles which cannot penetrate skin but fission products from it such as Strontium 91 and Cesium 137 have much shorter half lives and emit beta particles and Gamma rays from Cesium. The waste products are more concentrated and dangerous. Why not put them back where they came from. It s much less expensive to dispose of like they do. I bet the ones that make decisions like that don t live nor depend on groundwater near by.
Did anyone else notice how stupid she and the guy are standing directly on the coal ash while it's dust is being blown around?? She doesn't get the point of her own documentary..
I grew up 10 minutes away from the Ebensburg named in Ebensburg Power Company and they're certainly doing something, whether or not it is working we won't know for years or decades. They've actually been open since the 90s as a cogen plant so this is not a brand new thing. Many, many towns in the area are literally surrounded, or dwarfed by huge coal ash piles. You can see them up in the hills. This report worries me though I know Vice does not have time to do a BBC Planet Earth style documentary on this, but no scientists interviewed in either, just some residents, cogen planet worker, and advocacy group members. I don't know. Why not show us the result of the woman's water testing? Test the waters of the river. Show me testing of water wells around these "treated" coal ash piles by Ebensburg Power Company.
Saying you can see something from space is not saying anything. We can see people from space. I really wish this series had more science. Too much editorializing and not enough science. Do better Vice.
Yeah that was bs that aerial shot was taken from no more than an altitude of 3000 feet... misleading for sure. I guess next I can go on my roof take a picture of my back yard and label it 'from space'.
Either way, I used to go see it all the time with my friends when I was in high school (not much to do for fun in that area). It was pretty insane and very large.
Can you at least convert the imperial units to SI-units so that the rest of the world can understand how large volumes or masses you are talking about...
what if they find a way to take the harmful effects out of it and use it, for example if whatever is in the coal ash that's causing it to be classified as a toxic material and use it as a substitute for potting soil or something along those lines. instead of being stuck with coal ash that is going to cost allot more in the long run in damages they can use the money and put it towards research that will generate revenue.
You have an amateur reporter who has zero scientific background in the field of organic chemistry calling a bluff to and questioning the long term viability of binding coal ash. "In 20 years we don't know what will happen" well my dear, you need to go back to elementary chemistry where you lean the difference between mixtures, compounds and elements and which ones can leach via a solvent and which ones cannot.
Is this stuff possible to be filtered out of the water? Create a dam that filters toxins along with creating hydro power? Then on other side of dam you would have clean water...
I hate to say it, but the fact that something is visible from space really isn't that much of an impressive qualifier nowadays. With google maps, even my home is visible from space, and believe me, it's NOT that big. I would think "maybe they meant visible from space with the naked eye", except then why did they use a zoomed-in sat photo? Oh well, I'm just nit-picking :)
just finished both parts. the reporter should have researched more before this video. only question i have for her. if not using coal, what are the other options? green energies? they cost way more than coal, and even green energies are not 100% perfect solutions. so, not a video.
I guess you wont ne laughing when you electric bill doubles when coal hits 250 a ton and breaks all the historical records!! How much will you be saying the coal industry needs to be shut down then. I love how she didnt say it was absurd to the guys face. Dont even have the guts to tell a old man hes absurd just behind his back your parents and diseny are proud!
That’s the craziest day when I’ve heard. Now we live in China we don’t have access to toothpaste and we’re forced to live where we live,? Oh yeah you voted for Obama and Biden
@@J7innovation Keep making your crappy Marketing videos, look like thats getting you no where. You don't know anything about what your commenting on you entitled POS.
@@J7innovation Stop trying to make this political since you have no idea what your talking about. You don't know me and you have no idea who I work for and who I vote for.
Political? Well if you don’t like it you can move and tell your relatives to buy a toothbrush and move. They have plenty of blackouts and brown outs in California have fun
This is actually very interesting and motivating. I really do hope we find alternate solutions to our coal dependency, We only have one Earth at this moment.. We should take care of it.
Vice, next do a feature on Fukushima and how it continues to pollute the whole northern hemisphere and how it will continue for hundreds of years and how the true nature of this tragedy is being covered up. How it is leading to extinction events in the Pacific Ocean. Then do a feature on fracking and how it's poisoning fresh water aquifers of the drinking supply of communities and how farmers are watering crops with it and poisoning our food sources. Then lets buy heavy blankets and unplug our fuse panel at our homes and also sell our cars and ride a bicycle to work so we don't appear like hipocrites that complain when the earth is being poisoned for our conveniences. Just kidding. The only alternative is to accept we are dieing. The earth is dieing. Can't evade the grim reaper. But Jesus promises eternal life to those that believe in Him. The earth is ripe and the harvest is near. Peace be in your hearts.
Minority suffers again !! admit there is a problem, majority pays to rehouse you to a unpolluted area. Simple test, get one energy boss, one government boss to drink a glass of boiled and germ treated coal ash water? problem does this get rid of the heavy elements? arsenic led sulphur ete ?
Little help from the federal government go talk to all the people that work in the coal mines in those areas and find out how big thing getting laid off by the hundreds do the federal regulations on coal mining once again a one-sided hipster report from vice they used to do some of the best reporting no its nails on a chalkboard to get through it due to all the inaccuracies
Coal ash. Heavy metals?? Never once told you how many ppm in any samples. Any chance of some scientific evidence?.... So some would say Tree Hugging Properganda.
They mentioned 4.6 pbm of carcinogen in part 1. Imperical data or no, Ash ponds are toxic. Many companies are forced to decommission these horrible ideas now.
Normally Vice does pretty well presenting both sides of the issue without voicing their own opinion, but this one was a flop. Not only was it presented extremely one sided and the reporter was also clearly biased. What first drew me to the Vice news channel was the raw content where I made my own decisions, and I don't see that here. I hope things change.
This is a late response but I have a plan to solve the coal ash problem how bout we back full the coal mine that the coal came from easy more jobs will come of this when trains drop off coal fill them back up with the coal ash and put it back in the mines
When handled properly,coal ash can be a very useful material. Just because you don't agree with the use of a particular material for energy production does not mean you get to play on the fears of everyone and lie about it.
Funny thing is, you can penalize these energy companies, (as they sit in a room using electronics and electricity) but at the end of the day, if you need it, and have to have it.... you need to be comfortable with what it takes to get that resource to you. Don't like animals getting killed for food? Don't eat animals. The woman in this video constantly talks about the unknown amount of time to fix this problem and that it will probably always be there, so I say to her, at what point do you just shut the fuck up, or are you personally going to pay for it to be fixed or do you think it should be everyone's responsibility to pay for it? It sure as hell won't be the energy company paying for the clean up, it will be the US and PA taxpayers and customers who use this electric company. I just hear a bunch of belly aching and no real solutions. This shit happened a long time ago (pond was built in 70's) and now we have other ways to produce energy. In addition to the "problem that is not going away" what are you going to do to employ the people providing your power when you discontinue the use of coal?
Watch Part One "Toxic Waste Spill in North Carolina" - bit.ly/1G831lu
In the final part of our series, VICE News travels to Pennsylvania, home to the largest coal ash pond in the country, which continues to leak dangerous pollutants out into the community.
In the UK, what did we do with our coal waste? Or did we not have this kind of thing ?
Sherry Lee Maybe road based materials. But I actually don't know, which is why I asked. I will have to look it up. If I can find it.
I left Greene township in 85. Graduated high school there in 76. These homes that were taken to flood this hollow were people I knew. I hunted in this location. They were building this mess when I left. Hookstown and Georgetown were such nice little rural farm communities. Now it's all just a toxic waste dump. 😢
Any thoughts of ever returning is long gone now.
"It's like putting cookie dough in a strainer, and putting a brick on the cookie dough..." This is the worst analogy I've seen for something in awhile, in a literary sense.
Hey bro you alive rn?
Thanks Vice News. I come from a coal mining area and had never heard of the dangers of coal ash until I watched this!
Vice needs to get its shit together, if they keep allowing this kind of journalism under their banner then soon nobody will want to talk to them.
sometimes when I watch news stories by Vice, I feel like I'm looking at an apocalyptic future, or, the starting of anyways.
The best way of the coal-ash treatment is to re-use it (so-called re-mining) by extracting the highly-concentrated, though precious elements (like cadmium, thallium, arsenic, uranium, thorium, selenium, nickel, cobalt, vanadium, but especially gallium and to some extent also germanium).
And then this is just a idea form a safer compound or putting them in box that are made of stable elements that are not easy to breack down and then put them back in the mine
Not a single scientist was interviewed in this report. Not good reporting at all.
Will their is only one way to find out, go skinny dipping in that lake and tell us how the result of your health is within the next few years.
It's generally known by the citizens in the area. As dangerous and toxic. Most believe that it is also containing nuclear waste material from the nuclear plant in shipping port.
that physician is just beautiful, jesus!
A world without coal is an expensive world to live in. Too expensive for the shrinking middle class and the growing poor to afford.
Have lived 30 mins away from this for all my life and never knew about this.
I lived in beaver falls. Only heard about this 4 years ago.
I grew up in New Brighton, the "glowing blue lake" was like some urban legend when I was growing up. So I looked it up.. they advertised it as a great place to swim and live when they opened up shop.
Send all the coal ash to the shithole countries in Africa.
Their solution is to cover it? The project must be planned by a four year old, 'My room is messy, I'll just cram all this shit under my bed!'
great article now please do one on how much Waste Green Energy Creates cause there's a big problem with that also in Pennsylvania and other states wind energy created quite a bit of waste that people don't realize I'm quite a bit of harm to nearby communities and they don't give back nearly what they're worth... Also a story about MSR reactors or fluoride reactors would be pretty neat
Is it just me or does VICE only cover negative things happening?
vice reports the truth and unfortunately this is reality evil rules the world
Because that is the most interesting stuff
Not really. They did a video on the cannibas cup, spring breakers of izula or something like that, but I prefer to know this stuff
Videos about rainbows and puppies don't get as many views and therefore do not make as much money.
theyre just as bad as CNN, FOX,etc. Reporting this type of news will bring them more hits on their website than reporting feel good stories
Solution = do not live anywhere near a power plant
So long as we like our electric lights, A/C, computers, and modern industry, power plants of one kind or another will have to go somewhere.
NIMBY ('not in my back yard') just fucks over the poor and otherwise disenfranchised.
Solution = inform yourself with unbiased sources and you won't have an irrational fear of non-toxic dirt.
Riiight. Because out of sight = out of mind.
My OP was sarcastic, people on the internet lol i live in Pennsylvania. Our drinking water is under constant assault of being all fracked up. Google Dimmick, PA
Sarcasm is very difficult to convey effectively through bland text without the use of some mechanism akin to 'smileys' or 'emoticons', or special punctuation.
There was (and is) nothing in your op to indicate to those unfamiliar with you personally that your intent was sarcasm rather than, say, idiocy. Not that I am intending here to suggest that you're an idiot, only that *we can't tell the difference* in this medium.
One out of three comments here are trolls. Funny.
When she said “there were some hunters out in the woods and they saw this thing they’ve never seen before” I was expecting her to say Bigfoot or a mutant deer
Little blue run is so eerie I can't believe my eyes.
Imagine working there everyday like I did. Being told not to talk to anybody outside the compound.
the fuck would i do without vice! actually paying attention to the issues and showing a boots on the ground view.
Wind power and solar power, guys!
both of which aren't very efficient
TheKeilanm The entire evolution of life on this planet is solar powered. Our technology may be lacking, but the source is not. Every time I hear this kind of defeatist propaganda i cringe.
Giant CosmicSnail i can assure you a plant doesn't require as much energy as 500+ houses
All life on earth, for millions of years, sustained by the sun. "The amount of solar energy that falls on the earth’s surface in 40 minutes equals the total annual energy consumption of all the world’s people."
www.txses.org/solar/content/solar-energy-facts-you-should-know
If Duke energy could put a meter on the sun and charge us for it, the technology would be far advanced from its current state. Profitability does not equal efficiency,or sustainability, nor is it inherently ethical. Saying that the sun, a star, one of the most POWERFUL forces in the universe, is "inefficient" is illogical bunk.
Giant CosmicSnail I'm with you. The sun is by far our greatest energy source and has a life span longer than the human race will need. It's the perfect solution, which is why it hasn't been used. There's too much money at stake for those who invested in nonrenewable energy sources. If only we could rid them from the planet, I have a feeling our race would suddenly excel in energy production techniques by leaps and bounds.
take an old shipping yard, fill containers full and let em sit! puts old containers to use and old shipping yards
Thorium, 20,000 years of zero emission energy, 80% less nuclear waste, no waste with 24,000 year half-lives, meltdown-proof, welcome to the future.
Nah nukular is bad, see Chernobill and Fuckyoushima. I don't want mah kids too be mootated by tha radiations. Alex Jones say so.
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@@EddyMac1903 thorium was not used in the either place you mentioned
I can see my neighbors pool from space
coal is such an outdated technology geez
come up with an alternative and compete with these multi million dollar companies; we will keep burning coal for many many years to come
@@RobertoGreenthumb Nuclear energy, even considering Chernobyl it has still polluted significantly less than coal. And no you won't if the right people get into power, you will not kill our children's future.
if the acreage was for sale really cheap, I'd buy it for a vacation getaway.
In Australia we use a lot of coal ash as a replacement to Portland cement. Which we can utilized to increase our green star rating to new buildings once complete.
Wouldn’t it leach from the mortar into your house? 🤔
@@AmazingJayB51 NO
So I have a question. Burning coal ash as fuel for electricity by power companies would be reusing that material, but wouldn't you still be emitting some toxins into the air, and wouldn't there still be residue from that re-burnt material that would again need some form of waste management? Interestingly the EPA labels coal ash as a byproduct of coal-based power production containing toxic materials such as arsenic and lead; as non-hazardous waste. Arsenic and lead aren't toxic?! I found this online. "... reports, required by recent regulations, show that polluted groundwater is a widespread problem, with unsafe levels of toxic contaminants linked to more than nine out of every 10 coal-fired power plants with monitoring data, about 91 percent." Is this yet another example of government regulators protecting industry at the sake of the American public's health?
Use the coal ash to make a new brand of toothpaste....problem solved.
This is the exact reason why im such a big fan of nuclear energy. Its clean, efficient and i believe that in the near future it will be harmless to the enviroment as in they are able to get it back to a safe unactive state.
Coal, oil, nuclear waste are all destroying the planet. 75% of nuclear reactors are leaking in the US. Add to that Fukushima and Chernobyl meltdowns and one can easily argue nuclear is not the answer. A mass die off of species is currently happening in the pacific from Fukushima melt downs.
We need nuclear reactors for one reason: to decimate the human population!
The perfect number of humans on this planet would be 500million, so lets see how many we can get rid off.
This planet is FUBAR, one way or the other
thorium but is it economically viable???
I used to think so aswell, but drastically changed my point of view after Fukushima. Look at the maps of currents carrying it all around the world(including the Western coast of USA) and it's been 4 years, but when adding up how many times some radioactive materials have to split(Cesium 240 years and Plutonium 200 000 years) you get the whole picture. Add to it the fact that humans are the end-consumers and that we have no safe way of disposing the used fuel rods. watch?v=2FKnSv6U2N8
power3244 Fukushima was a freak accident. Nuclear is a very safe way of making power (especially with modern plants) as long as protocol is followed.
:50 she should ask : would you play or hang around out here.
Why are we surprised? Its American, you can buy a politician who will then make sure you can do whatever you want.
We humans are wretched things.
Can tell how biased this report is when they talk about how lime stone is making things better she calls it simple and goes right back to saying there's a huge problem hat cant be solved you just showed a solution to the problems and then called it too simple.. Meanwhile two thirds of the people need to use coal energy just to watch your biased report... Pennsylvania's wind energy isn't doing any better
I used to live 5 mins from this its runoff from shippingport power plant
technology has made life easier but made the human existence worse.
I don't care about coal I'm here for the reporter that's it.
Lived there..the water is warm..too warm.
A win win, yeah right.😒Dude could barely explain the process.
A Remanence of the Industrial Age still plaguing us over 100 years later,we have advanced so much humanity :D
Surprised nobody mentioned the reporter's acne. good job trolls, I beat you to it.
Ok, one interesting tidbit that was left out. What happens when rain water runs through naturally occurring coal deposits? Those coal deposits are there whether we use them or not. Do they also leach these same chemicals? Is coal ash more likely to release these elements than naturally occurring coal that is still in the ground whether man uses it or not?
Coal is located deep in the ground below ground water and the ash residue left from burning is a lot like fission products left from nuclear power plants in that they are much more toxic than the original elements they are derived from. If power companies would line the ash ponds with an ample layer of clay then leaching and seepage wouldn t be a problem. This ash contains concentrated levels of toxic substances and when put in areas like this can get in ground water. Uranium has a very long half life which means that it decays very slowly and gives off little radiation in the form of alpha particles which cannot penetrate skin but fission products from it such as Strontium 91 and Cesium 137 have much shorter half lives and emit beta particles and Gamma rays from Cesium. The waste products are more concentrated and dangerous. Why not put them back where they came from.
It s much less expensive to dispose of like they do. I bet the ones that make decisions like that don t live nor depend on groundwater near by.
Vice never let facts stop a good story! What was the point of her talking to that guy if she wasn't going listen to a word he said!
Did anyone else notice how stupid she and the guy are standing directly on the coal ash while it's dust is being blown around?? She doesn't get the point of her own documentary..
Lol even the weeds are dead and dont grow hahahaha
I grew up 10 minutes away from the Ebensburg named in Ebensburg Power Company and they're certainly doing something, whether or not it is working we won't know for years or decades. They've actually been open since the 90s as a cogen plant so this is not a brand new thing. Many, many towns in the area are literally surrounded, or dwarfed by huge coal ash piles. You can see them up in the hills. This report worries me though I know Vice does not have time to do a BBC Planet Earth style documentary on this, but no scientists interviewed in either, just some residents, cogen planet worker, and advocacy group members. I don't know. Why not show us the result of the woman's water testing? Test the waters of the river. Show me testing of water wells around these "treated" coal ash piles by Ebensburg Power Company.
Saying you can see something from space is not saying anything. We can see people from space.
I really wish this series had more science. Too much editorializing and not enough science. Do better Vice.
Yeah that was bs that aerial shot was taken from no more than an altitude of 3000 feet... misleading for sure. I guess next I can go on my roof take a picture of my back yard and label it 'from space'.
Either way, I used to go see it all the time with my friends when I was in high school (not much to do for fun in that area). It was pretty insane and very large.
They are journalists not scientists.
Try to smoke the coal ash away!
They didn't explain what these "toxic" and "deadly materials" in the coal ash are. Are they just elements like is also contained in soil?
Arsenic and Mercury to name a couple
Great piece and the background music was an excellent choice.
We are all doomed.... technology has made life easier but made the human existence worse.....
Oh u again
Can you at least convert the imperial units to SI-units so that the rest of the world can understand how large volumes or masses you are talking about...
From what I've seen of Vice News, their journalistic skills aren't their strength, they do however get some great footage of real people in real life.
McDonald's should just purchase all the coal ash and put it into their food
100 out of 273 of these comments are science teachers lol
what if they find a way to take the harmful effects out of it and use it, for example if whatever is in the coal ash that's causing it to be classified as a toxic material and use it as a substitute for potting soil or something along those lines. instead of being stuck with coal ash that is going to cost allot more in the long run in damages they can use the money and put it towards research that will generate revenue.
You have an amateur reporter who has zero scientific background in the field of organic chemistry calling a bluff to and questioning the long term viability of binding coal ash. "In 20 years we don't know what will happen" well my dear, you need to go back to elementary chemistry where you lean the difference between mixtures, compounds and elements and which ones can leach via a solvent and which ones cannot.
Is this stuff possible to be filtered out of the water? Create a dam that filters toxins along with creating hydro power? Then on other side of dam you would have clean water...
I hate to say it, but the fact that something is visible from space really isn't that much of an impressive qualifier nowadays. With google maps, even my home is visible from space, and believe me, it's NOT that big.
I would think "maybe they meant visible from space with the naked eye", except then why did they use a zoomed-in sat photo?
Oh well, I'm just nit-picking :)
just finished both parts. the reporter should have researched more before this video.
only question i have for her. if not using coal, what are the other options? green energies? they cost way more than coal, and even green energies are not 100% perfect solutions.
so, not a video.
FUCK YEAH M'ERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I guess you wont ne laughing when you electric bill doubles when coal hits 250 a ton and breaks all the historical records!! How much will you be saying the coal industry needs to be shut down then. I love how she didnt say it was absurd to the guys face. Dont even have the guts to tell a old man hes absurd just behind his back your parents and diseny are proud!
Try growing up in a town where peoples teeth are rotting and their cattle has discoloration in their eyes from chemicals leaked into the water.
That’s the craziest day when I’ve heard. Now we live in China we don’t have access to toothpaste and we’re forced to live where we live,? Oh yeah you voted for Obama and Biden
@@J7innovation Keep making your crappy Marketing videos, look like thats getting you no where. You don't know anything about what your commenting on you entitled POS.
@@J7innovation Stop trying to make this political since you have no idea what your talking about. You don't know me and you have no idea who I work for and who I vote for.
Political? Well if you don’t like it you can move and tell your relatives to buy a toothbrush and move. They have plenty of blackouts and brown outs in California have fun
throw the stuff on the moon
This is actually very interesting and motivating. I really do hope we find alternate solutions to our coal dependency, We only have one Earth at this moment.. We should take care of it.
America used to be so great. Sad. Can't even use there own natural lakes.
This is one of the worst reporters ive ever seen on vice.
Sweet moustache
Vice, next do a feature on Fukushima and how it continues to pollute the whole northern hemisphere and how it will continue for hundreds of years and how the true nature of this tragedy is being covered up. How it is leading to extinction events in the Pacific Ocean. Then do a feature on fracking and how it's poisoning fresh water aquifers of the drinking supply of communities and how farmers are watering crops with it and poisoning our food sources. Then lets buy heavy blankets and unplug our fuse panel at our homes and also sell our cars and ride a bicycle to work so we don't appear like hipocrites that complain when the earth is being poisoned for our conveniences. Just kidding. The only alternative is to accept we are dieing. The earth is dieing. Can't evade the grim reaper. But Jesus promises eternal life to those that believe in Him. The earth is ripe and the harvest is near. Peace be in your hearts.
FUCK YOU, soon I will leave this planet
Minority suffers again !! admit there is a problem, majority pays to rehouse you to a unpolluted area.
Simple test, get one energy boss, one government boss to drink a glass of boiled and germ treated coal ash water? problem does this get rid of the heavy elements? arsenic led sulphur ete ?
guys we got the coal out of the ground put the ash back in a hole
should have finished the video
Corporate infallibility at its finest.
That has to be getting into the Ohio river. That means several states are being polluted. All the way down into the Gulf of Mexico.
Really biased reporting here.
Little help from the federal government go talk to all the people that work in the coal mines in those areas and find out how big thing getting laid off by the hundreds do the federal regulations on coal mining once again a one-sided hipster report from vice they used to do some of the best reporting no its nails on a chalkboard to get through it due to all the inaccuracies
Coal ash. Heavy metals?? Never once told you how many ppm in any samples. Any chance of some scientific evidence?.... So some would say Tree Hugging Properganda.
They mentioned 4.6 pbm of carcinogen in part 1. Imperical data or no, Ash ponds are toxic. Many companies are forced to decommission these horrible ideas now.
Normally Vice does pretty well presenting both sides of the issue without voicing their own opinion, but this one was a flop. Not only was it presented extremely one sided and the reporter was also clearly biased. What first drew me to the Vice news channel was the raw content where I made my own decisions, and I don't see that here. I hope things change.
This is a late response but I have a plan to solve the coal ash problem how bout we back full the coal mine that the coal came from easy more jobs will come of this when trains drop off coal fill them back up with the coal ash and put it back in the mines
This is bullshit , nothing wrong with coal ash. It makes great foundation for buildings and highways.
MrPayneful Someone grew up a state of fear and falsehoods.Minerals did not come from Mars !
Do me a favor and google fly ash and read up on its uses before laughing at people's comments.
When handled properly,coal ash can be a very useful material. Just because you don't agree with the use of a particular material for energy production does not mean you get to play on the fears of everyone and lie about it.
Thats so fake
Dude theres no such thing as coal dust. its called soil
It’s not, I lived 5 minutes away from it
Stop burning coal? lol keep dreaming lady
“Little” blue - my ãss.
Funny thing is, you can penalize these energy companies, (as they sit in a room using electronics and electricity) but at the end of the day, if you need it, and have to have it.... you need to be comfortable with what it takes to get that resource to you. Don't like animals getting killed for food? Don't eat animals. The woman in this video constantly talks about the unknown amount of time to fix this problem and that it will probably always be there, so I say to her, at what point do you just shut the fuck up, or are you personally going to pay for it to be fixed or do you think it should be everyone's responsibility to pay for it? It sure as hell won't be the energy company paying for the clean up, it will be the US and PA taxpayers and customers who use this electric company. I just hear a bunch of belly aching and no real solutions. This shit happened a long time ago (pond was built in 70's) and now we have other ways to produce energy. In addition to the "problem that is not going away" what are you going to do to employ the people providing your power when you discontinue the use of coal?
The camera used to film this was powered by coal.
Why not put the ash in abandoned mines?
They're still using the power though...
How many people think Chem trails are coal ash?
Obama, fix this.