Save the POTOMAC RIVER!

[riverrat]

Please attend this important meeting! We need help getting the word out to help protest this environmentally unsafe idea. Not only do they want to build this wharf and bring coal up the Chesapeake Bay but then they want to build some kind of wet scrubber and pull over 1 million gallons of water a day from our aquifiers.

 

[riverrat]

Alright let's see if I can try to attach the information. Obviously, I'm not too good at this type of thing.

http://www.somdnews.com/stories/012607/indymor85731_32114.shtml

 

[rack'm]

Dahlgren would have new slow moving targets to test their guns on.

 

[kwillia]

Please attend this important meeting! We need help getting the word out to help protest this environmentally unsafe idea. Not only do they want to build this wharf and bring coal up the Chesapeake Bay but then they want to build some kind of wet scrubber and pull over 1 million gallons of water a day from our aquifiers.

Okay... after reading the article, I'm not sure I recognize this as being so detrimental to the environment. Morgantown is already receiving and processing coal... has been for decades. I see this as being less hazardous to the environment than the oil/fuel barges that are currently navigating the Potomac and less of an impact than the poop currently being dumped into the Potomac daily from the VA side. I need more info before I get all excited over this...

 

[rack'm]

less of an impact than the poop currently being dumped into the Potomac daily from the VA and DC side.

Millions of metric tons of raw sewage to boot.

 

[MMDad]

Okay... after reading the article, I'm not sure I recognize this as being so detrimental to the environment. Morgantown is already receiving and processing coal... has been for decades. I see this as being less hazardous to the environment than the oil/fuel barges that are currently navigating the Potomac and less of an impact than the poop currently being dumped into the Potomac daily from the VA side. I need more info before I get all excited over this...

sounds like NIMBY to me. If we don't want the coal facility, we need to stop using the elctricity the coal creates. No market, no coal, no problem.

 

[riverrat]

I love the Dahlgren approach to the subject!! Can you imagine those first few deliveries and Dahlgren shoots a big one over their heads? But on the serious side, you don't think that the coal and/or coal dust would slip off into the river?

 

[kwillia]

I love the Dahlgren approach to the subject!! Can you imagine those first few deliveries and Dahlgren shoots a big one over their heads? But on the serious side, you don't think that the coal and/or coal dust would slip off into the river?

The plant is located directly on the edge of the Potomac already. So the Potomac is already exposed to coal/coal dust simply from wind and run-off. I'm sure the EPA will require extensive monitoring of the water at the unload docks and there will most likely be a barrier put in place as a precaution should their be contamination. I don't see where this will be a major impact to the environment. Again, it is not like the Potomac is in healthy to begin with... I was serious when I mentioned the sewage that is legally dumped daily.

 

[aps45819]

Please attend this important meeting! We need help getting the word out to help protest this environmentally unsafe idea. Not only do they want to build this wharf and bring coal up the Chesapeake Bay but then they want to build some kind of wet scrubber and pull over 1 million gallons of water a day from our aquifiers.

Looks like the problem is CSX will lose some business so they stirred up the enviro-nazi's

 

[MMDad]

I love the Dahlgren approach to the subject!! Can you imagine those first few deliveries and Dahlgren shoots a big one over their heads? But on the serious side, you don't think that the coal and/or coal dust would slip off into the river?

Would you rather have some coal dust or another pipeline break like Chalk Point? The more coal they use, the less oil they need, which reduces the chance of another pipeline break. This might actually be better for the river.

 

[Cowgirl]

The main problem I see is the destruction of wetlands to build everything. Are they doing a wetland mitigation? Not sure what the requirements are for it...