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Alabama's Coal Ash Problem
At Alabama Power's Plant Barry more than 21 million tons of toxic coal ash sits in a 600-acre unlined pit allowing toxic chemicals to contaminate groundwater and the Mobile River Alabama Power's own reporting shows that they are already leaking 806% the legal limit of arsenic into our groundwater Because of Plant Barry's location directly on the Mobile River in the middle of the
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Alabama's Coal Ash Problem
At Alabama Power's Plant Barry more than 21 million tons of toxic coal ash sits in a 600-acre unlined pit allowing toxic chemicals to contaminate groundwater and the Mobile River Alabama Power's own reporting shows that they are already leaking 806% the legal limit of arsenic into our groundwater Because of Plant Barry's location directly on the Mobile River in the middle of the
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Southern Coal and Land • Birmingham • Alabama •
1 Overview 2 Forms of waste from coal mining and combustion 2 1 Waste coal 2 2 Liquid coal waste 2 3 Coal ash and scrubber sludge 3 Accidents and contamination Southern Coal and Land 300 Cahaba Park Cir Ste 209 35242 Birmingham Alabama
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Alabama Power
Alabama Power's hydroelectric generating plants encompass several lakes on the Tallapoosa Coosa and Black Warrior rivers as well as coal oil natural gas nuclear and cogeneration plants in various parts of the state In addition to generating electricity the waters surrounding the plants offer recreational opportunities for Alabama residents and visitors
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Alabama
Alabama is the second-largest hydroelectric power producer east of the Rocky Mountains after New York Nearly two dozen hydroelectric dams on the state's rivers typically supply almost 8% of electricity net generation In 2018 Mobile was the largest port of entry for U S coal imports by volume and the fourth-largest port for coal exports
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Adger Alabama
Adger is a rural community that arose in the late 1880s during development of Debardeleben's Adger Johns and Belle Sumter mines in the Blue Creek Coal Basin The mines were operating at their peak in the early Twentieth Century The Black Diamond Mine also operated in the Adger community along Blue Creek road where the mine's Hoist Tipple and Portal were located
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Coal still an important part of Alabama's energy portfolio
Alabama was modernized because of coal taking us from an agricultural society into one driven by industry and technology The energy industry in this State relied on coal to power our world but that is rapidly changing Still as the market government regulations and concerns over greenhouse gasses continue to stress the coal industry it is important to remember coal
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Coal Valley Alabama
Coal Valley also known as Cormick is an unincorporated community in Walker County Alabama United States History Coal Valley is named for the abundance of coal in the surrounding area Coal mines were opened in Coal Valley after the completion of the Georgia Pacific Railway The Coal Valley mines played a role in the 1920 Alabama coal strike A post
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Alabama has 300 years of coal reserves
Monday a new academic study showed that coal has a tremendous positive impact on Alabama's economy M Keivan Deravi Ph D of Economic Research Services Inc performed the study for the Alabama Coal Association "Currently the coal industry in Alabama directly employs more than 3 000 people and generates $370 million in annual payroll for an []
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Coal Valley Alabama
Coal Valley also known as Cormick is an unincorporated community in Walker County Alabama United States History Coal Valley is named for the abundance of coal in the surrounding area Coal mines were opened in Coal Valley after the completion of the Georgia Pacific Railway The Coal Valley mines played a role in the 1920 Alabama coal strike A post
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Alabama Power
Alabama Power's hydroelectric generating plants encompass several lakes on the Tallapoosa River Coosa River and Black Warrior Rivers as well as coal oil natural gas nuclear power and cogeneration plants in various parts of the state In addition to generating electricity the waters surrounding the plants offer recreational opportunities for Alabama residents and visitors
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Fossils
Alabama is well known for its coal-age (Pennsylvanian) plant fossils These are most abundant in the Warrior coal basin of northwest Alabama The best plant fossils are preserved in shales associated with coal deposits and are found in coal mines Common Alabama plant fossils include treelike lycopods such as Lepidodendron which are preserved as trunks branches
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Entities tied to Oak Grove mine file Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Central Alabama Entities tied to Oak Grove mine file Chapter 11 bankruptcy amid restructuring plan Coal (Source: Pixabay) February 18 2020 at 6:34 PM CST - Updated February 18 at 6:34 PM By Ty West – Editor-in-Chief Birmingham Business Journal The company that operates the Oak Grove Mine complex near Bessemer has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as part of a
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U S coal mines are opening in a year
Add Corsa Coal Corp to the shortlist of U S coal producers doing something that's become a bit of a rarity these days: opening mines The Canonsburg Pennsylvania-based company will start a new operation in Pennsylvania as early as May It joins Ramaco Resources Inc which began producing at its first mine in West ia in December and plans to open two more this year
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CSS Alabama
CSS Alabama was a screw sloop-of-war built in 1862 for the Confederate States Navy at Birkenhead on the River Mersey opposite Liverpool England by John Laird Sons and Company Alabama served as a successful commerce raider attacking Union merchant and naval ships over the course of her two-year career during which she never docked at a Southern port
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SourceWatch
SourceWatch (formerly Disinfopedia) is a wiki dedicated to profiling government and corporate spin doctors According to their mission page: According to their mission page: " " SourceWatch profiles the activities of front groups PR spinners industry-friendly experts industry-funded organizations and think tanks trying to manipulate public opinion on behalf of corporations or
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Alabama Power uses coal to produce power at locations in Jefferson Shelby and Mobile counties but it has inactive plants where coal ash is still stored PowerSouth Electric Cooperative announced it would close its coal burning facility in Washington County within a year and cap-in-place its coal ash waste and the Tennessee Valley Authority stores coal ash at its inactive coal
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Alabama and coal
19 2 1 Existing coal plants in Alabama 19 3 Related SourceWatch articles 19 4 External links Introduction Alabama coal mines produced 18 8 million tons of coal in 2006 (1 6% of the U S total) making Alabama the 15th-biggest coal-producing state in the country Alabama employed 4 195 coal miners in 2006 of whom 61% were unionized Alabama had 45 coal-fired
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Warrior Met Coal
Warrior is a large-scale low-cost producer and exporter of premium met coal also known as hard coking coal (HCC) operating highly efficient longwall operations in its underground mines based in Alabama The HCC that Warrior produces from the Blue Creek AL coal seam contains very low sulfur and has strong coking properties and is of a similar quality to coal referred to as the
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Alabama Profile
Alabama is a major producer of electricity and the state is also rich in energy resources with sizable deposits of coal as well as some crude oil natural gas and coalbed methane reserves 1 2 3 Located along the Gulf of Mexico southern Alabama consists of a coastal plain with a humid subtropical climate The state's north includes the southern edge of the Appalachian
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