South Carolina wake up Stop the Coal Pollution!

“For six generations, Tom Grizzard's family has lived on the land near the Kingston Fossil Power plant in Tennessee. On December 22, an earthen dam gave way and spilled one billion gallons of toxic coal ash sludge - decades of the plant’s waste - contaminating hundreds of acres, local rivers, poisoning the area's drinking water and destroying the homes of many friends and neighbors.
This horrific incident was 100 times the size of the Exxon Valdez spill - and it could happen again. Every day, dangerous contaminants quietly seep from the more than 600 coal ash waste sites across the country threatening both people and wildlife. And despite the peril coal ash dumps pose they are NOT regulated by the federal government. In fact, disposal of coal ash is less regulated than disposal of household garbage in county landfills.
Right now, the Sierra Club is working at the national level to create federal regulations governing coal ash waste sites. And we’re working with a coalition of local residents and environmental groups to hold the plant's owner, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) accountable for its negligence, filing suit asking that a federal court oversee the cleanup and ensure that local residents are compensated for their loss.
Coal ash - which is produced when coal is burned for electricity - is full of toxic heavy metals. After the Kingston spill, EPA testing found arsenic levels more than 100 times higher than the maximum level allowed by the federal government in the Emory River near the spill site. And Duke University scientists found higher than normal radiation levels at the spill site, leading them to warn that exposure to the toxic ash could have "severe health implications."

People of South Carolina You have to wake up and smell the coal dust—yes that smell is Mercury and Arsenic the 2 most deadly poisons known to mankind! Why are we going to let DHEC and our County Govt’s tax us for everything we do in this state and then what do we receive for our taxes POLLUTION We cant even eat the fish in our rivers anymore.

The Grainger plant in Conway is not being monitored or Controlled in any Positive manner at all. DHEC is supposed to Protect and Serve us but instead they grant permission to let Santee Cooper; who runs the Grainger Plant, Poison our waters. I surely would be devastated if the Holding pond at the Grainger plant gives way Maybe I am wrong I do not even know if they have such a holding area, maybe they just dump it into the river back there— that’s called the Waccamaw River back waters I just do not know! BUT I want to know and I want our water FIXED.
C’Mon South Carolinians lets make our Govt answer to their policy making failures.

I challenge any Govt official to come to the Beach and speak on how & what they are doing in the way of reducing the TAXES and Pollution. We will have a huge crowd for them to speak before.
The first Parts of this was copied from The Sierra Club newsletter, the challenge was from Joe Bellisario A Vietnam Veteran and born in the USA Citizen of Horry County!


Joseph W Bellisario
South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District
Representative for T Boone Pickens Plan